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The North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees will hold its next reg­u­lar meet­ing on Fri­day at 1:00 p.m. at Defi­ance Regional Med­ical Cen­ter, 1200 Ral­ston Avenue, Defi­ance. Pre­ced­ing the reg­u­lar meet­ing, the board will hold a work ses­sion at the same loca­tion, begin­ning at 8:30 a.m. This is an …

Police and sheriff’s deputies in Defi­ance and Henry coun­ties are get­ting ready for their annual Shop with a Cop and Deputy events. For nearly 20 years, the annual pro­gram has held the event, which pairs kids with law enforce­ment offi­cers who help them pur­chase cloth­ing. This year’s Shop with a …

A three-vehicle pileup Sat­ur­day morn­ing on Ohio 281, in Rich­land Town­ship, Defi­ance County, has left one man crit­i­cally injured. The Ohio State High­way Patrol says it hap­pened at 3:45 a.m. Sat­ur­day, when 35 year old Ronald Nash of Napoleon, was west­bound on Ohio 281 in a Ford Tau­rus around mile …

A teenager died Sat­ur­day when he fell through ice at a Boy Scout camp near Pio­neer. 14 year old Daniel Spauld­ing of Ore­gon, Ohio fell through the ice at Camp Fron­tier Boy Scout Reser­va­tion accord­ing to the Williams County Sheriff’s Office. It hap­pened around 11 Sat­ur­day morn­ing. He was taken …

A Bryan man was charged with a firearm vio­la­tion over the week­end. Accord­ing to Bryan Police, 20 year old Jef­frey Cham­pion of 342 South Beech Street in Bryan, was arrested for dis­charg­ing a firearm. No other infor­ma­tion has been released by Bryan Police about his arrest. We do know that …

Sauder Vil­lage has joined Giv­ingTues­day, a first of its kind effort that will har­ness the col­lec­tive power of a unique blend of partners-charities, fam­i­lies, busi­nesses and individuals-to trans­form how peo­ple think about, talk about and par­tic­i­pate in the giv­ing sea­son. Tak­ing place tomor­row, Giv­ingTues­day will use the power of social …

Today marks the open­ing day of the Buck­eye State’s deer-gun sea­son. The sea­son, which runs through next Sun­day, is with­out ques­tion, one that many look for­ward to all year long. Hunters are urged to exer­cise cau­tion while afield.

Quadco is leas­ing addi­tional ware­house space in Arch­bold in order to meet an ever-increasing demand for the card­board pal­lets they pro­duce. The Quadco Admin­is­tra­tive board met on Tues­day, and it was announced that the cen­ter would be leas­ing space in a ware­house near their North­west Prod­ucts divi­sion for the stor­age …

On Wednes­day, a bond request was denied for a Defi­ance man who stands accused of mur­der. 58 year old Steven Noff­singer of Defi­ance was in Pauld­ing County Court on Wednes­day. Noff­singer is charged with mur­der­ing his ex-wife, Alma Noff­singer, who was 29 at the time, way back in 1981. The …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers reviewed plans at their meet­ing yes­ter­day, for a pro­posed $171,000 upgrade to the county’s Emer­gency Med­ical Ser­vices build­ing on Ohio 15. The Bryan Times reports that the project as planned, will upgrade the foyer, close off the open garage on the west end of the build­ing, and …