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The Napoleon Area Board of Edu­ca­tion learned that con­struc­tion of the new Napoleon Ele­men­tary School is expected to be fin­ished by the end of Novem­ber, heard dis­cus­sion about options for soc­cer facil­i­ties in the dis­trict and entered into an agree­ment autho­riz­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion Coop­er­a­tive Pur­chas­ing …

Local drug agents arrested a Defi­ance man while exe­cut­ing a search war­rant at his home. 26-year-old Dustin Boroff was booked on heroin charges. 28-year-old Ash­ley Dal­ton was arrested on a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion and pos­ses­sion of heroin. The Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force found heroin and drug para­pher­na­lia in the search. The pair …

A Defi­ance man has been sen­tenced to spend 10 years in prison for drug traf­fick­ing and bur­glary. 26-year-old Andrew Smith pleaded guilty to traf­fick­ing cocaine and sec­ond degree bur­glary in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Judge Joseph Schmenk sen­tenced him to 11 years and ordered Smith pay about $4,300 in restitution.

Kids of all ages will wel­come Santa Claus on the Bryan Square on Black Fri­day at 6:30 p.m. The parade begins at 6 in the Parkview Physi­cians Group park­ing lot, east on High St., south on Main, then around the square toward Bryan High School. The event runs till 9 …

The Cen­tral Local School board voted unan­i­mously approved putting a bond levy and income tax issue on the March 2016 bal­lot for vot­ers to decide. First, the income tax, if approved, would be for 0.25 per­cent on tax­able income of indi­vid­u­als and estates, col­lected over 23 years. Dis­trict offi­cials said …

A mobile home at the Buck Lake camp­ground was destroyed in a fire early yes­ter­day morn­ing. It took fire­fight­ers from the Angola Fire Depart­ment about 20 min­utes to get the fire under con­trol around 1 a.m. The mobile home is a total loss. No word yet on the cause.

The 9th Annual Olde Tyme Hol­i­day Gath­er­ing fea­tur­ing a lighted parade will be held Novem­ber 21. A Crafts and Gifts Show runs from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage School. Down­town, shops and restau­rants will be open. The parade begins at 6 pm, fol­lowed by the Christ­mas …

In news that affects your wal­let, the Williams County Health Depart­ment approved a $1.2 mil­lion bud­get for next year at its reg­u­lar monthly meet­ing. That’s down about $22,000 from this year’s bud­get. Nurs­ing Direc­tor Becky Syn­der told those at the meet­ing that more Hepati­tis C cases among younger peo­ple are …

There’s gonna be a new Sher­iff in town. Dou­glas Engle wants it to be him. The Com­man­der of the Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force for the last 13 years announced this week he wants to be Sher­iff in Defi­ance County. He’s seek­ing the GOP nom­i­na­tion next March.

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.