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Featuring almost 40 hot air balloons, the Angola Balloons Aloft event is set to return to Angola in it’s eighth year. It will also feature a kids zone, a car and tractor show, and helicopter rides. Officials expect around 20-thousand people will be there. If you live within eight miles …

The Ohio Department of Commerce received 185 applications for the 24 available Level I and Level II Medical Marijuana Cultivator licenses before the June 30 deadline. A single application was received from Williams County…an application for a Level I grow site in Stryker. Level I cultivators will be permitted to …

State Auditor David Yost’s visit to Edgerton served to punctuate the official end of Edgerton’s fiscal emergency status on Thursday. Yost addressed attendees from the community, advising continued diligence by city officials. The move to terminate the village’s fiscal emergency status was approved by the state auditor’s office in late …

North Central Local Schools Athletic Administrator, Brian Hughes is the district’s newest principal. Hughes replaces Tim Rettig as middle/high school principal. Rettig’s resignation, effective August. 1, was also approved at the same special Board of Education meeting. Rettig served at North Central since 2012.

Somebody purposely set the library in Auburn ablaze last Sunday. That’s according to the Auburn Fire and Police departments, along with the State Fire Marshal’s Office and the ATF. Officials are continuing to investigate and have asked that anyone with information about this fire to call Auburn Police. The Arson …

he West Nile Virus is back in Lucas County. Four samples tested positive. Sanitary leaders say the results can be traced to mosquitoes found near Point Place, the University of Toledo’s Scott Park campus and the Stranahan Arboretum.

TE Energy says its Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in Frenchtown Township released a higher than normal amount of chlorine into Lake Erie. Officials say during a 24-hour period on June 30, the plant released 77 pounds into the water, exceeding the 10-pound daily limit. They added it had “no …

The Ohio House declines to call a vote to override Gov. John Kasich’s veto, protecting Medicaid expansion. Speaker, Cliff Rosenberger said his chamber opted to give time for the health care debate to progress in Washington before acting. The Kasich administration estimates that 500,000 low-income Ohioans would lose health coverage …

During a special naturalization ceremony at Sauder Village, more than 80 people become new U.S. citizens on Independence Day on the village green. Eighty-six people from 31 countries took the oath of American citizenship during the special ceremony in Archbold.

Plans are finalized for the upcoming fourth annual Kaleb McLaughlin Memorial Ride and Organ Donation Awareness Day on Saturday, in memory of the boy killed in a one-vehicle crash in 2013. Festivities are slated at the Pioneer American Legion Post on First St. The event also will feature a 5k …