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Two blood dri­ves are being held in Put­nam County this week. One is going on today from noon-6 p.m. at the Glan­dorf Rod and Gun Club on County Road 11 in Ottawa. The sec­ond blood drive will be on Sat­ur­day from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. at Ottawa Chevro­let on N. …

Unem­ploy­ment in Williams County is on the rise. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, Williams County unem­ploy­ment increased to 6.7 per­cent in May from 6.6 per­cent in April. Defi­ance County’s rate remained at 6.9 per­cent. Ful­ton County’s rate dropped from 7.9 per­cent in April to 7.4 per­cent in May. Henry County’s …

Vil­lage lead­ers in Hol­gate are look­ing into the pos­si­bil­ity of expand­ing and improv­ing the park at Holgate’s for­mer school site. Ear­lier in the month, plans to replace two dugouts at the park were put on hold so vil­lage offi­cials could take a look at the pos­si­bil­ity of a larger-scale ren­o­va­tion …

Quadco is work­ing with an increas­ing num­ber of indi­vid­u­als with dis­abil­i­ties who want to work in the com­mu­nity and is help­ing more of them find jobs. At a meet­ing held Tues­day, Quadco’s Exec­u­tive Direc­tor told board mem­bers that there is a lot of empha­sis on com­mu­nity employ­ment. He pointed to …

Sev­eral Cub Scout packs and troops will be in area gro­cery stores this com­ing week­end ask­ing for dona­tions of food to local food pantries. Chief Super­mar­kets in Defi­ance and Wauseon will have grab bags avail­able for $5 which will con­tain a tube of tooth­paste, a bot­tle of sham­poo, a can …

An attor­ney for a Put­nam County teen who has been charged with the deaths of two Ottawa broth­ers has filed a motion to exclude media from cov­er­ing the court hear­ing. The court-appointed attor­ney for 17 year old Michael Fay filed a motion in Put­nam County Juve­nile Court to exclude media …

A single-vehicle crash Mon­day morn­ing claimed the life of a Pio­neer man. The Ohio State High­way Patrol reports that 20 year old Kaleb McLaugh­lin, a pas­sen­ger in a pickup truck dri­ven by 20 year old Mer­cedez Lloyd, also of Pio­neer was killed when the truck ran off County Road 16 …

The Williams County Board of Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties rec­om­mended a num­ber of items, includ­ing a rec­om­men­da­tion for higher pay for union mem­bers, dur­ing their reg­u­lar meet­ing Mon­day at the Enrich­ment Cen­ter. The Bryan Times reports that fol­low­ing an exec­u­tive ses­sion to dis­cuss a col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agree­ment, the board voted to rec­om­mend …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion says that effec­tive imme­di­ately and through July, TR 65, between CR 13 and CR 15 is closed for cul­vert replace­ment. Also, Begin­ning Mon­day July 8 through the end of July, U.S. 20A, between CR O and the Ohio Turn­pike will be closed for cul­vert replace­ment. …

The Wauseon Ele­men­tary School has a new prinic­pal. Theresa Viet­meier, for­merly a Wauseon Ele­men­tary School music teacher, was cho­sen Mon­day night by the Wauseon Exempted Vil­lage Board of Edu­ca­tion as the building’s new prin­ci­pal. Viet­meier begins her new job effec­tive Aug. 1, replac­ing David Burk­holder, who resigned. Viet­meier received her …