News

Ongo­ing ten­sions between the Defi­ance County Fair Foun­da­tion and the county’s fair board sur­faced at the county com­mis­sion­ers’ meet­ing ear­lier this week. The Cres­cent News reports that on Mon­day, sev­eral mem­bers of each organization’s board were on hand for the com­mis­sion­ers’ reg­u­lar ses­sion. Some dif­fer­ences between the fair foun­da­tion — …

A teenage boy was flown out by the Samar­i­tan Heli­copter on Tues­day after­noon after ini­tial reports indi­cate a tree fell on him. Accord­ing to the lim­ited infor­ma­tion that we have avail­able at this time, res­cue crews were called out at about 4:40pm yes­ter­day. Fre­mont fire­fight­ers, Fre­mont Police, Steuben County E.M.S. …

While toxic algae is caus­ing some con­cerns in Ohio and sur­round­ing states, The Bryan Times reports that Williams County has not detected any algae blooms so far. Mean­while, the Asso­ci­ated Press is report­ing today that a toxic algae out­break, which was detected two months ago, spread more than 600 miles …

Are tax­pay­ers in Henry County ready to go out of pocket for a new senior cen­ter facil­ity? A 1.1 mil, five year levy would bring in just over 800 tho­suand dol­lars, that money to be used as part of what’s needed to con­vert the site of the CD Brill­hart Elemt­nary …

Four peo­ple have two Angola police offi­cers to thank for get­ting them out of a house fire Sun­day morn­ing. It was reported just before 4am at 210 West Broad. It was at a duplex where some occu­pants in the side where the fire started were already out of the res­i­dence …

Folks in Williams County are being told to not burn any­thing out­side today due to an increased risk for those fires to get otu of con­trol. The National Weather Ser­vice says between warm tem­per­a­tures, low humid­ity and strong winds, all the ingre­di­ents are there for flames to spread quickly.

An OVI charge faces the man police say drove into a util­ity pole Sun­day evening that caused a power out­age. It hap­pened on Cleve­land Avenue near Ottawa Avenue. 22 year old Jose Alvarado of Napoleon was headed east when he lost con­trol of his car. The util­ity pole was snapped …

In Mark Town­ship, Defi­ance County, they need money to fix roads and bridges. Now a 2-mill, five-year levy will be decided on Nov. 3 by town­ship vot­ers. If passed that would gen­er­ate close to 70 tho­suand dol­larrs. For a per­son own­ing a prop­erty val­ued at 50 thou­sand dol­lars, it would …

15 mon­u­ments in the Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial Park in Williams County will be replaced after a vote by the Board of Trustees recently. They’ll use 3 inch slabs of gran­ite to give the stones some longe­tiv­ity. Those slabs will have the names of every vet­eran from Willaims County, reports the Bryan …

15 mon­u­ments in the Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial Park in Williams County will be replaced after a vote by the Board of Trustees recently. They’ll use 3 inch slabs of gran­ite to give the stones some longe­tiv­ity. Those slabs will have the names of every vet­eran from Willaims County, reports the Bryan …