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The Defi­ance County Health Depart­ment says that changes are com­ing and they will alter its pub­lic mis­sion. Many of the immu­niza­tions now offered by the health depart­ment will not be avail­able there. Because the Afford­able Care Act now cov­ers immu­niza­tions at 100 per­cent, the Health Depart­ment will not be giv­ing children’s …

With all the focus on the big box stores com­pletely chang­ing “Black Fri­day”, small busi­nesses in our area are remind­ing shop­pers that Sat­ur­day is “small busi­ness Saturday” Amer­i­can Express is part­ner­ing again with small busi­nesses all around the nation to pro­mote Small Busi­ness Sat­ur­day. It’s a rel­a­tively new tra­di­tion that …

A Henry County pas­tor is in jail for sus­pected sex crimes. He is wanted in Missouri. Robert Azinger was arrested Thurs­day by the Henry County Sheriff’s Office on a “fugi­tive from jus­tice” charge, and was arraigned Fri­day in Napoleon Munic­i­pal Court. He is being held at CCNO on a $100,000 …

Two peo­ple were arrested over the week­end by Williams County Sher­iffs Deputies. 33-year-old Michael Joyce of Toledo was charged with assault after an inci­dent that occured while Joyce was incar­cer­ated at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. 26-year-old David Pollino II of Lima was charged with oper­at­ing a vehi­cle while under …

Folks trav­el­ing this Thanks­giv­ing hol­i­day are strongly encour­aged to buckle up. That’s the word from the Ohio State High­way Patrol, say­ing that we“aring a safety belt is the sin­gle most effec­tive thing you can do to pro­tect your­self in a crash.” In Ohio last year dur­ing the Thanks­giv­ing hol­i­day week­end, 23 …

The Henry County Bank, 110 N. Turkey­foot Ave. in Mal­inta was robbed Mon­day morning. The Henry County Sheriff’s Office is seek­ing infor­ma­tion on the robbers. Accord­ing to Chief Deputy Arlen Cohrs, two black male sus­pects report­edly entered the bank and ordered bank employ­ees and one cus­tomer down to the floor …

It’s the time of year for tra­di­tions, and at Defi­ance Col­lege, the annual Thanks­giv­ing cel­e­bra­tion was held last week for over 400 stu­dents. Because most of the stu­dent body goes home for the hol­i­day, the col­lege fixes the meal for the entire stu­dent body the week before Thanks­giv­ing. This is …

Thanks­giv­ing week is here, and the hol­i­days are just around the cor­ner. Napoleon will have the Christ­mas parade tonight from 6–7 pm down­town. Thurs­day, the 18th annual Turkey Trot will be held begin­ning at 8:30 a.m. at Inde­pen­dence Dam State Park. It’s a four-mile run or fun walk. You can …

A woman miss­ing from Hicksville for sev­eral hours was even­tu­ally located more than 10 miles away in Har­lan, Indi­ana. The 66-year-old woman left home on foot. The Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office said police depart­ment has not released any more information.

In news that affects your wal­let, the local econ­omy is improv­ing. The Ohio Treasurer’s Office reports that sales tax dis­tri­b­u­tions are up more than a half mil­lion dol­lars from March to August this year. July was the biggest sales month, March was the slow­est. Accord­ing to the Depart­ment of Labor, …