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The Defi­ance County Health Depart­ment will hold its Know Your Health Num­bers health screen­ing on Thurs­day from 9–10:30 a.m. at the Huber Opera House in Hicksville. Included in the health screen­ing will be blood pres­sure, pulse, res­pi­ra­tions, cho­les­terol, hemo­glo­bin and blood sugar. For more infor­ma­tion, call the health depart­ment at …

Sauder Vil­lage is look­ing for some cre­ative peo­ple to help make hand­crafted items for the new Her­itage Shop at Sauder Vil­lage. A work­day has been planned for today, pro­vid­ing peo­ple an oppor­tu­nity to help make items for the shop and have fel­low­ship with oth­ers who like to be cre­ative! A …

An OVI arrest over the week­end in Bryan. Bryan Police say they col­lared 22 year old Logan Pape of Celina, Ohio early Sun­day morn­ing, around 3am. Pape was released by police who didn’t pro­vide any fur­ther infor­ma­tion. Bryan police also say they arrested 42 year old Don­ald Laney of Bryan …

A Defi­ance fam­ily lost their home and all their pos­ses­sions in a fire Fri­day morn­ing, and now they need every­thing to re-start their lives. Flames destroyed the home that Saman­tha Adkins shared at 401 Rulf St., with her two chil­dren and fiance, Nathan Brown. The first calls came in Fri­day …

A Defi­ance Grand Jury has indicted three peo­ple who allegedly oper­ated an “ille­gal gam­bling house” at the North­towne Mall in Defi­ance, and in four other com­mu­ni­ties. 38 year old Mar­vin Dabish, 39 year old Robert Dabish, and 59 year old Nadia Dabish, all of Ore­gon, are now fac­ing more than …

The improve­ments at the Defi­ance County cour­t­house will pro­ceed, how­ever they will now be done on a reduced scale, foll­wing a meet­ing that was held this week. The meet­ing of a com­mit­tee resulted in a vote, by a 5 to 2 mar­gin, not to pro­ceed with a full-scale ren­o­va­tion, which …

Well, here’s a sure sign of spring. A sign-up for a gar­den­ing plot in the Defi­ance Com­mu­nity Gar­den will be held on Wednes­day, March 18, at 9 a.m. and again at 7 p.m. that evening, at the county ser­vice garage, right behind the Defi­ance County Build­ing on East Sec­ond Street …

Fire­fight­ers rushed out Thurs­day morn­ing to a fire at the Lib­erty Cen­ter Post Office. The first call came in from a passerby just after 5am yes­ter­day, when that per­son said they saw a glow in the front win­dow of the build­ing on East Street. The fire was found in the …

The dri­ver of a trac­tor trailer is lucky fol­low­ing a crash Wednes­day morn­ing on US-24 west of Defi­ance. The dri­ver, whose name has not been released, was treated at ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal after his rig left the road­way just after 6am Wednes­day, trav­eled down a steep bank, into a …

Two kittens are alive today thanks to the efforts of a kind-hearted stranger. It was late Tuesday night when someone called 911 to report that someone in a vehicle had just thrown the kittens out the window near County Road J and County Road 16, north of Bryan. The caller …