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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 …

CSX is ask­ing the county and Defi­ance to close six rail­road cross­ings, includ­ing at Hire Rd., to vehi­cle traf­fic. CSX has joined the Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion of Ohio and the Ohio Rail Devel­op­ment Com­mis­sion in offer­ing to pay the county hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars to cre­ate alter­nate access for …

A Brady Town­ship home was all but lost by fire. The home­own­ers, Roger and Penny Perez, were just turn­ing in when Roger smelled smoke com­ing from their util­ity room. Fire­fight­ers got the fire out, but the smoke ruined their belong­ings, and they lost their pet dog to smoke inhala­tion. The …

There were inter­mit­tent 911 out­ages through­out the county yes­ter­day morn­ing. Accord­ing to the Direc­tor of the Williams County EMA Dawn Bald­win, there was a prob­lem with a Fron­tier Com­mu­ni­ca­tions con­troller in New Paris, Indi­ana that affected sev­eral coun­ties from about 6 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Two res­i­dents called 911 Wednes­day night on odor com­plaints. What they smelled was a new liner that was being applied to exist­ing sewer con­duits. The Super­vi­sor of Admin­is­tra­tive Ser­vices said they had sent out notices in the area to alert res­i­dents. Fire­fight­ers went to Broad Street and South East Avenue …