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The Pauld­ing mayor’s race has a new win­ner. After count­ing absen­tee and pro­vi­sional bal­lots, the Board of Elec­tions cer­ti­fied Greg Rein­hart the win­ner by 10 votes.

A blast of cold weather is headed this way. The National Weather Ser­vice says we could get some snow this week­end. Right now, it looks to begin Fri­day night, with a bet­ter chance of snow on Sat­ur­day… and temps drop­ping to below 20 degrees on Sun­day night. Check our web­site …

With Thanks­giv­ing right around the cor­ner, Cooper Farms has donated more than 5,000 pounds of meat to the Ohio Asso­ci­a­tion of Food­banks. Gary Cooper, the COO of Cooper Farms, said most of the meat will stay in the west­ern Ohio area. Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Ohio Asso­ci­a­tion of …

As farm­ers get ready for win­ter, the new state law con­cern­ing water qual­ity and fer­til­izer were to topic of con­ver­sa­tion at the Ever­green Lane Office Com­plex. The law estab­lished new restric­tions. About two dozen area res­i­dents talked about the restric­tions, weather fore­casts, and keep­ing track of treat­ments. Matt Lane, the …

The Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion agency has sent a notice to Defi­ance County about E. coli test­ing in Plat­ter Creek which is prompt­ing a health depart­ment inves­ti­ga­tion. The EPA said a test of Plat­ter Creek dis­cov­ered “ele­vated” E. coli lev­els, and that the color of the water and odor sug­gest a nearby …

The Williams County Board of Elec­tions has cer­ti­fied the gen­eral elec­tion results from early Novem­ber. No races were changed, and none will be sub­ject to an auto­matic recount. The results became final after tab­u­lat­ing the pro­vi­sional and absen­tee bal­lots, about 175 total. The Board says 32 bal­lots were dis­qual­i­fied for …

In a year of unusual weather, here comes more. The National Weather Ser­vice says we could get accu­mu­lat­ing snow this weeked, mainly Fri­day night and Sat­ur­day. The spe­cial weather state­ment is for Williams, Defi­ance, Ful­ton, Henry, Pauld­ing and Put­nam coun­ties. The National Weather Ser­vice says they’ll know more on Thurs­day. …

Trash rates are going up next year, and the year after. The Bryan City Coun­cil approved the hikes. The monthly rates will go up to $23.50 begin­ning Jan­u­ary first, then up another two dol­lars in Jan­u­ary 2017. Seniors will pay $19 next year, and $21 in 2017. The rate hike …

An Ohio man is fac­ing charges after 198 mar­i­juana plants were seized from his res­i­dence in Antwerp. Tim­o­thy B. Edwards, 56, was arrested at the house he rents on Mon­day. He is being charged with know­ingly cul­ti­vat­ing mar­i­juana, a third-degree felony. Police also seized chem­i­cals, lights, soil, fans, firearms and …

A local Mom is upset at the Bryan school dis­trict, for how they’ve han­dled a sit­u­a­tion with her daugh­ter, her mid­dle school teacher and a friend three years ago. The woman, Kim Snavely said her girls were at the teacher’s home after school and found pri­vate sex­ual items. Snavely said …