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The Williams County Engineer’s Office will be hosting a town hall meeting this week for those interested in discussing the Alvordton sewer project. The meeting will be Thursday at the Alvordton Community Center from 3-6 p.m. It will be an open house forum where those interested can come in any …

Many Memorial Day events are scheduled throughout the area this coming holiday weekend. The following is a list of most of those in area counties. Defiance County • Riverview Memory Gardens and Garden Mausoleums, 29231 Defiance County Road 424, will get things started at 10 a.m. Saturday with a ceremony …

Two Defiance County bridges with big traffic impacts are going in different directions.The U.S. 127 bridge south of Sherwood – closed for the past year – reopened Friday morning after a brief ceremony by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) while the Ohio 15 bridge over the Tiffin River in …

The Hicksville hospital is “temporarily suspending operation” that began Sunday. In a brief statement on Facebook, Community Memorial Hospital announced the news. Comments have been turned off on the post. “We are pursuing all avenues to restore operations and keep services available in the community,” the statement reads.

Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill to make sextortion a serious crime. Sextortion involves convincing someone to share explicit photos of themselves, then threatening to share those pictures publicly unless the victim pays money. Lawmakers point out that the victims are typically teenage boys. And in the case of an …

Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a bill limiting cellphone use by students in Ohio schools. The Senate and House passed the bill within the last month. The policy was added to an unrelated House bill in a Senate committee and the Senate later passed it. The bill requires public schools …

The Williams County commissioners Tuesday approved a transfer of money to fund a position for a year and ok’d three agreements for Williams County Job and Family Services (JFS). The commissioners approved transferring $10,000 to the grant-OSU Extension Funding line item to cover the full-year salary for the family and …

The YWCA is preparing for its sixth annual social justice conference – Stand Against Racism – which kicks off in just a week. The YWCA said this event isn’t like typical conferences: it’s a chance for the community to build bridges to equality. During the event, the community will come …

Northwest State Community College celebrated its 2024 graduating class at a spring commencement ceremony Saturday at Founder’s Hall. The ceremony recognized 226 graduates who completed an associate degree or certificate program with the college during fall, spring or summer term, comprising a total of 231 awards (192 associate degrees and …

The Montpelier Village Council awarded bids for two projects and approved purchasing a new sewer camera during its meeting Monday evening. The first project was the Cranberry Run storm sewer project. The project will line the 54-inch sewer pipe with plastic in the 200 and 300 blocks of West Washington …