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Check your cal­en­dar. That’s right, Christ­mas is only about 3 1/2 months away. Now, one area group of motor­cy­cle rid­ers is get­ting set to do their best for kids who may not get any toys oth­er­wise this year. The Con­ti­nen­tals Motor­cy­cle Club will be mak­ing its annual Ravens Care Christ­mas …

Con­ti­nen­tal Ele­men­tary School offi­cials say they are in need of men­tors to read with stu­dents in K-3. If you are inter­ested in vol­un­teer­ing your ser­vices as a men­tor, you can con­tact Terri Hoff­man at 419–596-3860, by email­ing at cnthoffman@cn.noasc.org, or by stop­ping at the ele­men­tary school and fill­ing out a …

A Steuben County man, and accused sex offender, has been arrested. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office says 55 year old Jerry Hai­fley of Angola was arrested Wednes­day for fail­ure to reg­is­ter as a sex offender. That’s a class D felony. Hai­fley was con­victed of sex­ual bat­tery in 2003 and is …

A judge in Ful­ton County East­ern Dis­trict Court has granted a con­tin­u­ance in the case of a man charged with fail­ing to reg­is­ter a dog which had pre­vi­ously been deter­mined to be vicious because it is con­sid­ered a “pit bull” mix. A pre­trial con­fer­ence was set for 9 a.m., Oct. …

Accord­ing to a press release issued by the Ohio Devel­op­ment Ser­vices Agency, Williams County will soon be receiv­ing $78,000 as a Com­mu­nity Devel­op­ment Block Grant to improve waste­water col­lec­tion north of Bryan. The money will be used at the Oak­wood mobile home park in Pulaski Town­ship. Offi­cials there plan to …

Accord­ing to tes­ti­mony Tues­day in Put­nam County Court, the teenager who is charged with the May 9th deaths of two Ottawa broth­ers, 17 year old Blake and 14 year old Blaine Romes, lied to author­i­ties. 18 year old Michael Fay faces charges of aggra­vated mur­der, abuse of a corpse and …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil, at their meet­ing on Tues­day night, approved an addi­tional con­tract for an east­side project which will also make drainage improve­ments related to the city’s long-term sewer con­trol plan. Accord­ing to the ordi­nance approved Tues­day, the city will con­tract with the engi­neer­ing firm Burgess and Niple, Inc. at …

The Williams County Fair board recently drew crit­i­cism from a national orga­ni­za­tion. PETA (Peo­ple for the Eth­i­cal Treat­ment of Ani­mals) sent out let­ters as well as started a Face­book cam­paign ask­ing the fair board to can­cel ele­phant rides at the fair, claim­ing that Nosey the ele­phant has been mis­treated. Accord­ing …

There could be some money com­ing to one area vil­lage… lit­er­ally! Con­ti­nen­tal Vil­lage Coun­cil on Tues­day night learned of the pos­si­bil­ity of a new bank open­ing up shop in town. An offi­cial at the Fort Jen­nings State Bank says the bank is seri­ously con­sid­er­ing open­ing up a new branch bank …

On Tues­day after­noon around 3:30, Bryan Police arrested 29 year old Kurt Andrews of Bryan on a bench war­rant from Bryan Munic­i­pal Court that the Williams County Sheriff’s Depart­ment held. Andrews was turned over to the sheriff’s depart­ment and then taken to CCNO.