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Defi­ance Col­lege will hold a Mil­i­tary and Vet­er­ans Appre­ci­a­tion Day on Sat­ur­day, Oct. 10, at the DC-Manchester foot­ball game. All area vet­er­ans are wel­come and will be admit­ted to the game free with their mil­i­tary ID. Kick-off is at 1:30 p.m. The school is also accept­ing care pack­age dona­tions for …

Offi­cials with the Fort Defi­ance Humane Soci­ety are hop­ing that low-cost spay and neuter pro­grams will lead to fewer cats run­ning free in the county. They say that although they have an almost 100-percent suc­cess rate when it comes to adopt­ing dogs, at least 60 per­cent of the cats that …

Pauld­ing County com­mis­sion­ers met recently and learned of some eco­nomic devel­op­ment issues. The Com­mis­sion­ers met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Regional Growth Part­ner­ship Jobs Ohio and Pauld­ing County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment, and learned that sev­eral area col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties are in the process of form­ing a con­sor­tium to dis­cuss and plan edu­ca­tional pro­grams …

The com­mis­sion­ers from Williams, Defi­ance, Henry and Ful­ton coun­ties are now con­sid­er­ing sell­ing the Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter build­ing in Stryker to Quadco. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the deci­sion to take a look at sell­ing the prop­erty comes fol­low­ing recent rule changes from the US Cen­ters for Medicare and Med­ic­aid, …

A Steuben County man was sen­tenced on Mon­day to 15 years in prison on a felony rape charge. Orig­i­nally, 54 year old Frank Stetler of the Angola area, had been charged with four felony counts in con­nec­tion with a sex­ual assault that hap­pened last New Years Eve. Stetler was handed …

Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties is cel­e­brat­ing Pub­lic Power Week, now through this Sat­ur­day, along with more than 2,000 other community-owned elec­tric util­i­ties across the U.S. that pro­vide elec­tric­ity on a not-for-profit basis. Pub­lic Power Week is an annual event that rec­og­nizes the ben­e­fits of local, community-owned elec­tric util­i­ties. Locally, to cel­e­brate …

The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio is hang­ing on, by a thread. On Fri­day, the exec­u­tive board of CCNO accepted an 80-percent par­tial pay­ment of Toledo’s $1.3 mil­lion fourth quar­ter oper­at­ing debt, that will go toward sup­port­ing oper­a­tions of the jail through mid-December. The future of the rest of the …

A Defi­ance man has been arrested after being indicted on sev­eral high-level drug traf­fick­ing charges. 40 year old Jesse Sanchez was charged wtih engag­ing in a pat­tern of cor­rupt activ­ity; three counts of traf­fick­ing in cocaine; and per­mit­ting drug abuse, all felonies. Sanchez entered a plea of not guilty in …

It’s been a tense few days, but yes­ter­day things eased up a bit as the City of Toledo announced that it is mak­ing its fourth-quarter pay­ment to the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. Still how­ever, the jail’s long-term via­bil­ity remains uncer­tain. Toledo announced last month that it may not be …

A Williams County man died early Thurs­day morn­ing in a two-vehicle crash.It hap­pened yes­ter­day morn­ing just before 7AM at U.S. 20A and Williams County Road 17 in Jef­fer­son Town­ship, when an east­bound vehi­cle dri­ven by 28 year old Samuel Sierra of West Unity, ran into the rear axle of a …