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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 …

Some cuts are com­ing to Titan Tire in Bryan. The com­pany told work­ers they’ll cut oper­a­tions from three shifts to one. That is expected to elim­i­nate half of the cur­rent work­force of 180 employees. Work­ers are wait­ing to hear on Fri­day the num­ber of peo­ple who’ll be laid off, and …

Despite com­plaints from hunters that the num­ber of deer appears down this year, The Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources put out some num­bers yes­ter­day that showed more deer were checked in area coun­ties so far this year than last. On open­ing day, hunters checked 22,256 white-tailed deer. The deer-gun sea­son …

Two of Defiance’s top city offi­cials will stay on with the approval of the next mayor. On Tues­day, coun­cil dis­cussed con­tract renewals for admin­is­tra­tor Jeff Leonard, and law direc­tor David Williams. Cur­rent Mayor Bob Arm­strong told the coun­cil that he and incom­ing Mayor Mike McCann, who won a four-year term …