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Emer­gency Med­ical Direc­tor Jim Hicks pre­sented Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers with an $81,678 pro­posal Thurs­day morn­ing for eight new Phillips Elec­tron­ics MRx Car­diac mon­i­tors. Hicks says the cur­rent mon­i­tors are ten years old, they’ve been upgraded once, and main­te­nance costs have become pro­hib­i­tive. Hicks told the Com­mis­sion­ers that the new MRx …

Fifty-five extrac­tions, 25 fill­ings and 30 teeth clean­ings were all given to patients in need at no charge at the sec­ond annual Den­tistry from the Heart event which was recently held last week at the Den­tal Excel­lence of Napoleon. Dr. Michael Car­pen­ter headed up the event. Den­tistry from the Heart …

A change in the way Pauld­ing County han­dles ani­mal issues… The Pauld­ing County com­mis­sion­ers on Wednes­day made the deci­sion to trans­fer the author­ity and juris­dic­tion of the Pauld­ing County Dog War­den and ken­nel oper­a­tions to the sheriff’s office effec­tive July 1. The com­mis­sion­ers say the change will make the depart­ment …

A poker run and a hog roast will be held at the Defi­ance AMVETS Post 1991 next Sat­ur­day, May 11 to ben­e­fit 10-month-old Nycholaas McConnell. McConnell is the infant who lost his par­ents, Ash­ley Jenk­ins and Sebas­t­ian McConnell, in a house fire in Bryan at the begin­ning of the year. …

The enter­tain­ment lineup has been released for this year’s Williams County Fair. This year’s head­liner will be coun­try per­former Joe Nichols. The con­cert with Joe Nichols will be on Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 7th begin­ning at 7:30pm. Tick­ets are $18 for the grand­stand and $20 for the track. The show is expected …

As party-goers cel­e­brate Cinco de Mayo with som­breros, mari­achi music and authen­tic cui­sine, many will also indulge with their favorite mar­garita or tequila, and then, unfor­tu­nately, choose to get behind the wheel. That’s why this year the Ohio State High­way Patrol will be join­ing with other law enforce­ment agen­cies across …

The Bryan Police Depart­ment lists a cou­ple of recent unre­lated arrests… On Tues­day, April 30th just after 5:30pm, 47 year old Den­nis Altaffer of Bryan was arrested for abuse of harm­ful intox­i­cants. And on Wednes­day morn­ing at 3:49am, 23 year old Cora Gonyea of Bryan was picked up by Bryan …

A Hicksville man who was con­victed last week of 10 child sex­ual abuse charges, was sen­tenced to 62 years in prison Wednes­day in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. 42 year old Jerry Stairhime had faced a max­i­mum prison term for the charges of 75 years. Stairhime was found guilty of …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross office in Defi­ance County may be clos­ing. It’s due to low local fundrais­ing. The county office at 1220 S. Clin­ton St. in Defi­ance is under the Toledo regional office, which cov­ers 16 coun­ties. County offices in Napoleon, Bryan, Wauseon and Ottawa are also affil­i­ates of the …

It’s all new… from the ground up. The Bryan City Schools’ new mas­ter facil­i­ties plan is call­ing for a totally dif­fer­ent approach to the district’s build­ing needs, includ­ing a new school for grades 6 to 12 at the cur­rent mid­dle school site, and ren­o­vat­ing the exist­ing mid­dle school. Accord­ing to …