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The loss of the River Street Market is devastating to the local community, according to Mayor Ray Delong. He said the fire that destroyed the market caused a “tremendous loss to the community.” He said “a small town without a grocery store is a dying town. It’s a terrible tragedy …

Par­ents of Defi­ance High School seniors who are plan­ning to major in edu­ca­tion this fall are reminded that schol­ar­ships are avail­able now for the Claude W. Hen­kle or Marie Kauser Memo­r­ial Schol­ar­ship. They are due by March 15th, and are avail­able from the Defi­ance High School coun­selors’ office.

Dona­tions have begun in Napoleon, for the annual Snow­man Cam­paign held by the group Together We Can Make a Dif­fer­ence. The group needs dona­tions of toi­letries and per­sonal care items for fam­i­lies in need in our area. Things like tooth­brushes, tooth­paste, bath soaps and even dia­pers. Dona­tions can be dropped …

In a follow-up to a story we brought you yes­ter­day, two peo­ple have been taken into cus­tody in the rob­bery of The Barn car­ry­out in Defi­ance on Mon­day night. First, the man, 32-year-old Joshua Brown is being charged with the rob­bery. The woman, 29-year-old Sheri Kraegel, was arrested on an …

The num­bers of job­less work­ers in the area last month showed Henry County had the high­est unem­ploy­ment rate at 5.5 per­cent. The Henry County Com­mis­sioner Glenn Miller said that rate stems from the lay­offs at Campbell’s Soup. The low­est job­less rate is for Put­nam County, now at 3.8 percent. Here …

Two for­mer Pauld­ing res­i­dents were killed last week­end in a shoot­ing in Florida. The vic­tims were 47-year-old Kevin McGrath, Sr. and 42-year-old Shanna McGrath, his wife. Their bod­ies were found Sat­ur­day morn­ing in Crestview. The woman’s son, 22-year-old Jacob Langston has been charged with their mur­ders. He was shot in …

A bill to delete the term “men­tal retar­da­tion” from state laws has been approved unan­i­mously in the Ohio House. The mea­sure replaces the phrase with the term “intel­lec­tual dis­abil­ity” and would spec­ify that con­di­tion as a form of devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­ity. More than just chang­ing the term, the bill also would …

A domes­tic vio­lence com­plaint has landed a Sher­wood man in jail. Sheriff’s Office says 30 year old Ray-Shawn Maulsby was charged with mis­de­meanor domes­tic vio­lence after he is accused of hit­ting a woman in the face at a home on W. Lawrence St. The man left the home before deputies …

The Sheriff’s Depart­ment is look­ing for a man they say tried to rob The Barn car­ry­out on E. Sec­ond Street Mon­day evening. The call to deputies came in just after 8 p.m. for a rob­bery in progress. The Crescent-News says the rob­ber was dressed in a black jacket and light …

The Bryan Area Cham­ber of Com­merce is accept­ing reg­is­tra­tions now for ven­dors at the 30th annual Williams County Busi­ness and Indus­try Show. It’s com­ing March 29. It’ll be held at the Bryan mid­dle school from 11 am to 7 pm. The orga­niz­ers say this is North­west Ohio’s largest event for …