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A number of developments are occurring in downtown Defiance these days. Among them is a possible grant program for downtown building owners which has received Defiance City Council’s verbal support. If approved by council in the 2023 budget, such grants would provide $50,000 total for the improvement of downtown building …

Officers execute a search warrant at a Delaware Avenue address in Montpelier. In the end 48-year-old Ronald Brown faces a list of drug charges and more. Officers add…four children…all under the age of four…were living in the home. They seize a cache of Marijuana…Methamphetamine, mushrooms, Fentanyl, Suboxone and Oxycodone. $3 …

The Defiance six-county area’s already low unemployment figures dropped even a little more in May, according to state statistics. Overall?…it’s at 3.5%. The lowest was Putnam County at 2.1% followed by Paulding, at 2.7%. Defiance?…3.1…over in Henry County, it’s 3.3%…Fulton?…3.3… Putnam County checks in at 2.2%…Williams County?… 2.8%. Finance officials …

The new boundaries for Ohio’s Statehouse seats are quite a bit different than during the last election for them in November 2020. The Aug. 2 primary will feature the area’s only contested Statehouse election, for the 82nd House District. Like elsewhere, the boundaries have changed after a federal court recently …

Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating a boating accident in which a personal watercraft (PWC) exploded Monday afternoon on Jimmerson Lake. Emergency personnel responded to the area of County Road 300 W and Lane 101. The Bombardier Sa-Doo, had just been launched into the water and docked. When it was started …

Ohio is holding a rare second primary on Aug, 2, this one for state legislative races and for Republican and Democratic state central committee positions only. Early voting begins today for the Aug. 2 special primary election. The deadline to register was Tuesday, though voters can still register for the …

In Oakwood…smoke filled the downtown area as several fire departments battled a house fire on First Street. The Continental Fire Department was summoned to the blaze first. Then, the Oakwood Volunteer Fire Department took command of the fire while Continental and Auglaize Township fire departments offered mutual aid.

A Metamora woman dies in a crash in Lucas County…on Fulton County Road T. Officials tell reporters…Michelle Herr was eastbound…while Omar Shead was northbound on North Fulton Lucas Road. Herr crossed toward Brint Road…when her vehicle was hit by Shead’s, as it was coming through the intersection. Both vehicles careen …

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has declared AquaBounty’s latest water withdrawal permit complete, beginning a 90-day countdown to acceptance or rejection. AquaBounty is in the process of building a 479,000-square-foot facility to raise 10,000 metric tons of genetically modified salmon a year at the Pioneer North Industrial Park. The …

Bryan’s skyline will soon become a little more fun and a little more sweet. Bryan Municipal Utilities has publicly been planning improvements, including painting, its two water towers, including one…in the middle of Spangler Candy Co.’s campus along Mulberry Street, in the northwestern part of town. Spangler officials presented a …