News

It was 39 years ago this week that nature’s vio­lent side was unleashed in our area in a way that we have never seen before and never seen since. The Super Out­break of 1974 is the worst recorded tor­nado out­break on record. The out­break brought a com­bined 13 tor­na­does to …

Bryan Police report sev­eral arrests… 32 year old David Williams of 108 E. Pierce St. Bryan, was arrested on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. He was unable to post bond and taken to CCNO. 21 year old Patrick Eat­man of 531 S. Beech St. Apt A Bryan, …

Deputies in Steuben County have arrested two teenagers they say broke into vehi­cles. 19 year old Chris­t­ian Gar­cia and a 17-year-old boy report­edly admit­ted to the thefts from unlocked vehi­cles in the Lake James area. Juve­nile charges were filed against the 17-year-old. Gar­cia faces a felony count of theft and …

Area leg­is­la­tors, Defi­ance County offi­cials, and oth­ers met with Arch­bold vil­lage offi­cials to talk about upgrad­ing a Ful­ton County road into a state route. Local offi­cials want state leg­is­la­tors to con­sider fund­ing a project that would upgrade Ful­ton County Road 24 and pos­si­bly reroute Ohio 66 down the road just …

The Fort Defi­ance Humane Soci­ety is host­ing its 19th annual Monte Carlo Night on April 13 from 7–11:30 p.m. at The Defi­ance Eagles on W. Sec­ond St. The event is expected to raise approx­i­mately $5,000 to sup­ple­ment the humane society’s gen­eral fund. The shelter’s annual bud­get is $200,000. Tick­ets may …

The Napoleon City Coun­cil approved a motion to reject all bids for the Scott Street improve­ment project dur­ing its meet­ing on Mon­day. City offi­cials dis­cov­ered when bids for the project were opened on March 26, not all of the nec­es­sary paper­work had been sub­mit­ted. They felt that reject­ing all of …

The Board of Trustees of North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege will hold its next reg­u­lar meet­ing on Fri­day, April 5, 2013, at 12:00 p.m. in the McDougle Cen­ter (room A101C) at the Arch­bold campus.

Absen­tee bal­lots are now avail­able at the Williams County Board Of Elec­tions for the May 7th Spe­cial Elec­tion. Any reg­is­tered voter within the county may vote in per­son at the board office now through Fri­day May 3rd. Office hours are 8:30am to 4:30pm Mon­day through Fri­day. If you have any …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion is plan­ning some con­struc­tion projects in the area which will be caus­ing some traf­fic detours. Begin­ning Mon­day, April 15th and through the end of the month, South River Road (for­merly US 24) from Henry Lucas County line Road to Providence-Neapolis-Swanton Road will be closed for …

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege has two events planned for next week. On Tues­day, April 9, NSCC is host­ing the 2013 Job Fair, which is open to the pub­lic and will fea­ture more than 75 local employ­ers. The event will take place in NSCC’s Atrium from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. The Cen­ter …