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The Red Cross of Henry County is hold­ing a blood drive next Tues­day. It will be at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Napoleon from noon until 6 PM. There will be free T-shirts for donors, and walk-ins are wel­come. For your con­ve­nience you can make an appoint­ment by call­ing 800-RED …

An Edger­ton teacher is being inves­ti­gated for an alleged sex­ual rela­tion­ship with a 15 year old stu­dent while work­ing for Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage Schools. Offi­cials are not nam­ing the teacher yet and it’s unclear if the teacher has been sus­pended pend­ing the out­come of the inves­ti­ga­tion, or has been fired. …

Tox­i­col­ogy reports haven’t come back yet and that’s caus­ing a delay for the man accused of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter, 26-year-old Andrew Marin of Payne. His pre­trial hear­ing has now been resched­uled for a fourth time, while they wait for the results. Mar­tin pleaded not guilty in Sep­tem­ber to invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter, two …

A Delta man was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Ful­ton County Mon­day. The dri­ver, 24-year-old Jacob Bald­win was pro­nounced dead at the scene in the county’s Swan Creek Town­ship, accord­ing to the Ohio High­way Patrol. Bald­win was dri­ving a pickup truck north on Town­ship Road 4–1 near County Road …

Down­town is pretty and all, but the Christ­mas dec­o­ra­tions will be com­ing down on Sun­day so they can get started on the cour­t­house repair project. The exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Bryan Area Cham­ber of Com­merce said that final con­tracts were signed on Mon­day to repair the inside and out­side of …

The March 15th Repub­li­can pri­mary will have two hotly con­tested county com­mis­sioner seats up for elec­tion, with five can­di­dates who want the jobs. One of those can­di­dates will run as an inde­pen­dent, after he indi­cated he will with­draw his Repub­li­can Party peti­tion. Rod­ney Miller has already been approved as the …

A rou­tine traf­fic stop led to the arrest of a dri­ver after the trooper smelled pot. The man, 28-year-old John Lee, is from New York. He was pulled over for speed­ing on the Ohio Turn­pike at Exit 13 on Mon­day morn­ing. As soon as the trooper smelled mar­i­juana, he called …

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 …