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Christ­mas will be a lot brighter for 36 local chil­dren who will receive a new bicy­cle from the Toys for Tots Pro­gram. Mem­bers of the Edon High School FFA put the bikes together and they’ll be given out through Grace Com­mu­nity Church on Decem­ber 21st. The bikes came from dona­tions …

Excit­ing news for col­lege foot­ball fans. Notre Dame will take on the Ohio State Buck­eyes in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year’s Day. The matchup at the Uni­ver­sity of Phoenix Sta­dium will be one of the most antic­i­pated games of the bowl sea­son. Unfor­tu­nately, the Buck­eyes won’t be defend­ing their …

Fri­day night, police arrested Allen Mosier for OVI. The 21-year-old was taken into cus­tody about 9:45 p.m. and later released. On Sat­ur­day, police arrested Logan Geesey for mar­i­juana and resist­ing arrest about 3:50 a.m. He was taken to CCNO. Then about an hour and a half later, Bryan Police arrested 25-year-old …

Bryan police arrested a 35-year-old man for mar­i­juana pos­ses­sion on Sun­day. William Ware, Jr. of Defi­ance was arrested about 4 p.m. and then released on his own recognizance.

We received a notice that Santa Claus is com­ing to Defi­ance this Fri­day. His first stop will be at the library at 5 p.m. where he and the misses will be for sto­ry­time with all the good girls and boys. Res­i­dents can grab a free trol­ley ride to see the …

Sheriff’s Deputies were watch­ing closer over the Thanks­giv­ing hol­i­day and made 54 traf­fic stops, accord­ing to Ful­ton County Sher­iff Roy Miller. Eigh­teen dri­vers were cited, mostly for speed. Thirty-nine dri­vers were lucky enough to get away with a warn­ing. There were no reported drunk dri­ving arrests. The blitz is paid …

Four­teen stu­dents were on a Millcreek-West Unity school bus hit by an SUV yes­ter­day morn­ing on the way to school. Three of the stu­dents were trans­ported for eval­u­a­tion since they were in the back of the bus, where the SUV crashed into on U.S. 20, west of 127. The dri­ver …

The Wauseon Pub­lic Library is get­ting some com­puter upgrades next week, and will be closed on Wednes­day, Decem­ber 9th. They’ll also take that time to train the staff on new tech­nol­ogy and will reopen on Thurs­day, Decem­ber 10th.

The state’s top county engi­neer is from right here, in Defi­ance County. War­ren Schlat­ter will receive the County Engi­neer of Year award from the County Engi­neers Asso­ci­a­tion of Ohio next week at a two-day con­fer­ence. The engi­neer is an elected posi­tion, which Schlat­ter was first voted for in 2004, and …

Amy Gal­braith, the cur­rent Defi­ance County Clerk of Courts, wants to keep her job and has filed peti­tions to be a can­di­date on next March’s bal­lot. She was first elected in 2008, and again in 2012. She’s also served as office man­ager for the pre­vi­ous Defi­ance County pros­e­cu­tor. She’s a …