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The Chief Phar­macy and Well­ness Cen­ter in Defi­ance called it quits yes­ter­day. Chief Super­mar­kets is sell­ing out the phar­macy to Rite Aid, fol­low­ing a deci­sion to move away from the phar­macy busi­ness in order to con­cen­trate on food. Chief Super­mar­kets also owns Rays Super­mar­kets. Rays Super­mar­kets had three phar­macy loca­tions …

The retire­ment res­ig­na­tions of four teach­ers have been accepted by the Napoleon Area Schools Board of Edu­ca­tion. Linda Daugh­erty; Ruth Ader­man; Jeanne West­hoven; and Kathy Ver­nace all will retire effec­tive June 1. Ader­man has served the dis­trict for 23 years, West­hoven for 22 years, Ver­nace for 21 years and Daugh­erty …

Bryan Police were called to an apart­ment Tues­day evening. 20 year old Bayle Hill of 617 South Main Street, Apart­ment C in Bryan was arrested there and charged with under­age con­sump­tion and dis­or­derly con­duct. Hill was locked up at CCNO.

Win­ter is barely over, yet the fig­ures have been added up in Defi­ance County. Snow and win­ter weather is expen­sive! The 2013 snow sea­son has cost Defi­ance County about $155,000. That breaks down to $28,000 in labor, $13,000 in over­time wages paid to work­ers, $32,000 which was spend on almost …

No cause has been listed for a fire Tues­day after­noon east of Ohio 66 in Ridgeville Town­ship. Fire­fight­ers were called out just after 2pm Tues­day on reports of a grass fire. The fire spread through a ditch and dam­aged a wooden fence. Fire­fight­ers remind area res­i­dents that spring grass fires …

North­west Ohio Wind Energy rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Tues­day, dis­cussed the company’s pro­posed 100-megawatt / $170 Mil­lion wind farm to be located in Pauld­ing County. Offi­cials with National Wind, the com­pany which will develop the project, told those attend­ing the meet­ing which was held at Wayne Trace High School, that all per­mits …

Money that Defi­ance City Coun­cil has ear­marked to pay for a mar­ket­ing direc­tor this year may instead be spent to help achieve the goal for which it was ini­tially bud­geted. The $50,000 had been set aside in the 2013 bud­get to hire a city mar­ket­ing direc­tor by the Defi­ance County …

A woman was seri­ously injured Tues­day after­noon in a one-vehicle crash. 60 year old Julie Bow­ers of Casebeer-Miller Road, Hicksville, was taken by air ambu­lance to Parkview Hos­pi­tal, Fort Wayne fol­low­ing that crash. Accord­ing to troop­ers, Bow­ers’ pickup truck was east­bound on Williams County Road C.75, just before 2pm when …

The state is expected to invest $2.3 bil­lion in Ohio’s trans­porta­tion sys­tem this year, includ­ing 100 projects to improve inter­states, six new mega projects, that is, projects cost­ing more than $50 mil­lion, and 780 projects focused on state and U.S. routes. In North­west Ohio, the state will invest over $170 …

The doors may be open­ing soon on a new Coun­try Club. Bid­ding in the sealed auc­tion will close next Thurs­day, April 18th at 5pm on the for­mer Orchard Hills prop­erty that had been owned and oper­ated by Buck­eye Golf Club since 1926. Pend­ing accep­tance of the court-appointed receiver and approval …