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The Henry-Wood Sports­mans Alliance is plan­ning a fundrais­ing ban­quet for this Sat­ur­day from 5–11 p.m. at the Armory Arts & Events Cen­ter, on East Clin­ton St., Napoleon. There will be a live auc­tion, gun and money raf­fles, door prizes and cash bar. A din­ner fea­tur­ing prime rib, chicken, choice of …

The Williams County Sher­iffs Depart­ment reports an arrest. They say they nabbed 34 year old Christo­pher But­ler of Mont­pe­lier on 3 charges of fail­ure to appear and 1 charge of a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion. No other details were given by the sheriff’s depart­ment, other than to say that But­ler was taken …

The National Weather Ser­vice has issued a haz­ardous weather out­look for a good part of our area, includ­ing Williams, Defi­ance, Henry, Put­nam, Ful­ton, Van Wert, and Allen Coun­ties. Although the weather fore­cast­ers say any accu­mu­la­tions will likely be light, the now is expected to spread across the area with 1 …

Two people were transported to hospitals with serious injuries Friday after sustaining stab wounds during an alleged domestic dispute in Defiance. Defiance Police rushed to a Ralston Avenue home Friday morning following a call about a domestic dispute. When they got there, they found 49 year old Scott Sisko and …

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 Tuesday, March 10 – providing people an opportunity to help make items for the shop and have fellowship with others who like to …

There is a new assistant police chief in Defiance, and two officer promotions have also been announced. 43 year old Todd Shafer, a 19 year veteran of the force, will replace Jeff Mack, who retired in January. Shafer’s father, Gary, also was a police officer with the department for many …

A crash Wednes­day evening in Defi­ance County resulted in charges against a woman from Bryan. 24 year old Amy Good of Bryan was dri­ving her SUV on Ohio 15 around 7:15 Wednes­day evening, when she hit a parked vehi­cle owned by Christo­pher Ross of Bryan. Good’s SUV flipped over onto …

The Defi­ance Police Depart­ment con­tin­ues to inves­ti­gate a shoot­ing. It was at 2:07 a.m. Thurs­day, when offi­cers were called to an apart­ment build­ing in Defi­ance on Jef­fer­son Ave. for a reported shoot­ing. Three men were involved. One man was taken to Mercy Defi­ance Hos­pi­tal where he was treated and released. …

The old say­ing goes some­thing like this… “it’s in the water.” In Mont­pe­lier, that seems to be the truth. Once again, Montpelier’s water has been deemed award win­ning. It placed fourth at this year’s Berke­ley Springs Inter­na­tional Water Tast­ing event in Berke­ley Springs, West Vir­ginia. It’s not the first time …

Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter board mem­bers spent most of their reg­u­lar monthly meet­ing on Tues­day con­duct­ing their annual plan­ning ses­sion. They largely focused on how to cre­ate com­mu­nity inte­grated oppor­tu­ni­ties for the peo­ple being served at QRC over the next four years. New Cen­ters for Medicare and Med­ic­aid Ser­vices waiver require­ments …