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A local insur­ance company’s pro­posal to take over the Williams County’s unem­ploy­ment insur­ance admin­is­tra­tive duties was declined at the Com­mis­sion­ers meet­ing last night. The com­mis­sion­ers said they felt the pro­posal to han­dle back office admin­is­tra­tive duties and help save the county money would dupli­cate what the county already does.

From the court files, in Napoleon, 58 year old Vickie Baker of Bel­more was fined $500 for OVI and got 30 days in jail sus­pended. Her license sus­pended for six months. One traf­fic charge for going left of cen­ter was dismissed.

They’ve set the date for steer tag­ging in Defi­ance County for Jan­u­ary 9th at the fair­grounds. If a steer doesn’t have an EID tag in its ear, the owner must take the ani­mal to the fair­grounds for tag­ging. The event is Jan­u­ary 9th, 10 am to noon. Con­tact the Exten­sion …

Time to make plans now for a blood drive for the Amer­i­can Red Cross. The date is Jan­u­ary 5th, at the Con­ti­nen­tal Amer­i­can Legion at 109 E. Fifth St. The blood drive will begin at noon and run through six p.m. You can make an appoint­ment by going to their …

Antwerp Police have been giv­ing out $50 gift cards since Black Fri­day. The Crescent-News reports that the depart­ment got the idea after see­ing a national news story about a com­mu­nity that did the same thing last year. Wal­mart was con­tacted and approved the cards. Offi­cers some­times give out the card …

Two men, one from Water­loo and one from Angola, were arrested after a home in Auburn was bro­ken into and robbed while the home own­ers were held at gunpoint. Indi­ana State Police say the break in hap­pened between 5:00am and 5:30am Sat­ur­day in the 800 block of Hazel Street. 21 …

A large drug round-up in Henry County sent 20 peo­ple to jail yesterday. Accord­ing to Henry County Sher­iff Michael Boden­ben­der, a six-month inves­ti­ga­tion led the the Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force to the sus­pects. Last week, the cases were pre­sented to a Henry County grand jury last week. Those arrested were …

The lat­est num­bers on the Williams County Fair were turned in and low atten­dance for the two main enter­tain­ment acts are being blamed for a loss of over $17,000 for this year’s fair. Agri­cul­ture Soci­ety Audi­tor Robin Brine­gar told the Ag Soci­ety that despite pay­ing dou­ble on adver­tis­ing than the …

A sin­gle car crash early Sun­day morn­ing killed a West Leip­sic woman. The coroner’s office says 48-year-old Shel­ley Ben­nett died shortly in the crash on Put­nam County Road 7 near County Road D and went into a ditch. The crash was reported just after 1 a.m. in a 911 call …

Peo­ple love incen­tives when there is a com­pe­ti­tion. And in Ayersville, a bet between Assis­tant Prin­ci­ple Kirk Jones and Ele­men­tary Prin­ci­pal Beth Hench sparked a lot of dona­tions for a food drive to help needy fam­i­lies. Turns out, when the final tally came in, the super­in­tent­dent he would make up …