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The Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion agency has sent a notice to Defi­ance County about E. coli test­ing in Plat­ter Creek which is prompt­ing a health depart­ment inves­ti­ga­tion. The EPA said a test of Plat­ter Creek dis­cov­ered “ele­vated” E. coli lev­els, and that the color of the water and odor sug­gest a nearby …

The Williams County Board of Elec­tions has cer­ti­fied the gen­eral elec­tion results from early Novem­ber. No races were changed, and none will be sub­ject to an auto­matic recount. The results became final after tab­u­lat­ing the pro­vi­sional and absen­tee bal­lots, about 175 total. The Board says 32 bal­lots were dis­qual­i­fied for …

In a year of unusual weather, here comes more. The National Weather Ser­vice says we could get accu­mu­lat­ing snow this weeked, mainly Fri­day night and Sat­ur­day. The spe­cial weather state­ment is for Williams, Defi­ance, Ful­ton, Henry, Pauld­ing and Put­nam coun­ties. The National Weather Ser­vice says they’ll know more on Thurs­day. …

Trash rates are going up next year, and the year after. The Bryan City Coun­cil approved the hikes. The monthly rates will go up to $23.50 begin­ning Jan­u­ary first, then up another two dol­lars in Jan­u­ary 2017. Seniors will pay $19 next year, and $21 in 2017. The rate hike …

An Ohio man is fac­ing charges after 198 mar­i­juana plants were seized from his res­i­dence in Antwerp. Tim­o­thy B. Edwards, 56, was arrested at the house he rents on Mon­day. He is being charged with know­ingly cul­ti­vat­ing mar­i­juana, a third-degree felony. Police also seized chem­i­cals, lights, soil, fans, firearms and …

A local Mom is upset at the Bryan school dis­trict, for how they’ve han­dled a sit­u­a­tion with her daugh­ter, her mid­dle school teacher and a friend three years ago. The woman, Kim Snavely said her girls were at the teacher’s home after school and found pri­vate sex­ual items. Snavely said …

There were two win­ners at the Miss North­west­ern Ohio Schol­ar­ship Pageant. The win­ner of the schol­ar­ship pageant is Hay­ley Hes­selschwardt of Hicksville. She’s joined in the winner’s cir­cle by Marcy Miller of Defi­ance, who was named Miss Out­stand­ing Teen. Hes­selschwardt won a $1,000 schol­ar­ship and the right to com­pete in the …

Here’s the lat­est on the crash Sun­day after­noon involv­ing a Michi­gan man. 41 year-old Anthony Reynolds of Flint is charged with flee­ing and elud­ing police and served with a war­rant for fail­ure to com­ply. A chase involv­ing the man led to a two-vehicle crash in Napoleon. Reynolds hit a truck …

Check­ing gas prices in the area… Accord­ing to AAA, gas prices in the Buck­eye state are down about one dol­lar from a year ago, and down again from last week. Today it’s about $1.84 in Defi­ance. That’s a far cry from the $4.19 we paid four and a half years …

There’s now a CrimeStop­pers reward of $500 for the man who burst into Rings Phar­macy on Novem­ber 3rd and stole drugs right off the shelves. Mont­pe­lier Police Chief Dan McGee says the man is an addict and has addict friends. He says the man moved fast, shov­ing drugs into a …