Frontier Communications hosted a celebration on Thursday night to honor Fremont and Angola for becoming quarter-finalists in the America’s Best Communities competition, a $10 million competition designed to revitalize small towns and rural communitoes. Angola and Fremont won $50,000 for getting through the first round, and will learn in January …
Read More »Fire At Mobile Home Park Destroys Jeep
A vehicle fire at Green Acres Trailer Court on Ohio 66, destroyed a Jeep and damaged a mobile home. It happened Wednesday morning around 11, and the flames were quickly put out by Defiance firefighters. A woman and child living in the mobile home were checked out by Defiance EMS, …
Read More »Bryan Police Tight-Lipped On Arrests
Bryan Police on Thursday evening, arrested 24 year old Kristin Way of Hillsdale, Michigan on a charge of Complicity to Commit Theft… or Shoplifting. She was taken toCCNO. Police did not release the location of that arrest or any other details. Also last evening, 25 year old Adam Reese, also …
Read More »“Pot Bus” Shows Up In Bryan
An unusual visitor showed up on Wednesday in Bryan. The Green Rush Bus Tour, sponsored by Responsible Ohio was in town yesterday. The group is pro-marijuana, and they are behind a proposed state constitutional amendment question which will appear on the November ballot. If passed, “Issue-3″ as it will appear …
Read More »Roundabout Planned In Defiance
On Tuesday night, at the regular meeting of Defiance City Council, councilmembers learned about an innovative traffic control device that is being proposed for one Defiance intersection. A roundabout was proposed by a consulting firm. Now, the mayor plans to ask council to approve an application for an Ohio Department …
Read More »Rover Meeting Today
Today, at the ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital in Defiance, there will be an informational meeting on the proposed ET Rover and NEXUS gas pipelines, which if built, would carry “fracked” natural gas from the East Coast of the United States through Ohio and Michigan to a station in Ontario, Canada. …
Read More »Jobless Figures Released
Unemployment in the six-county area was at or below the state average for July. In fact, Putnam County was one of 10 counties in the state that had an unemployment rate at or below 4 percent for the month. The lowest rate was 3.3 percent in Mercer County. Monroe County …
Read More »Peppler Gets Virtual Life Sentence
An Angola man is headed to prison for decades following his sentencing Tuesday in Steuben Superior Court. 49-year-old Jeffrey Peppler was sentenced to 60 years behind bars, for stabbing his 52-year-old sister Paige to death on January 3rd. The 60 year sentence was the maximum allowed under terms of a …
Read More »Cordoba Trial Delayed Until November
Romualdo Cordoba Jr. will stand trial for murder in the April 25 shooting death of Joshua McJilton but that trial will not be held next month. In Fulton County Court on Tuesday, Judge James Barber approved a request for delay during a pre-trial hearing. Now, a two-day jury trial has …
Read More »Vehicle Break-Ins Becoming A Big Issue In Steuben County
The Steuben County Sheriff’s Department reports that they are currently investigating nearly 17 reports of thefts from vehicles. There have also been a number of reports of thefts from vehicles in Fremont that are being seperately investigated by Fremont Police, all of which have occurred over the past two weeks, …
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