News

At Monday’s Defi­ance City Board of Edu­ca­tion meet­ing, dis­cus­sion cen­tered around the con­struc­tion project that is planned, along with an emi­nent domain res­o­lu­tion which was approved. The dis­trict plans to soon sub­mit doc­u­ments to the Ohio Facil­i­ties Con­struc­tion Com­mis­sion for the schematic design phase at the grade 6–12 site. A …

The Mon­day night shoot­ing of a Ful­ton County man remains under inves­ti­ga­tion today. The vic­tim, Con Wyse, was shot in the left leg in Arch­bold along South Defi­ance Street. Wyse was first taken to the Ful­ton County Health Cen­ter in Wauseon, then trans­ferred to Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter, Toledo. …

An Amer­i­can Red Cross blood drive is sched­uled for this Thurs­day, from 3–7 p.m. at Antwerp Com­mu­nity Church of the Nazarene on South Erie Street in Antwerp. Walk ins are wel­come, but if you would like to sched­ule an appoint­ment, you can do that too by call­ing 800–733-2767.

A for­mer res­i­dent of Stur­gis, along with her son, are dead after try­ing to help other peo­ple in Ten­nessee. 34 year old Kristi Clark and her 10 year old son Carter Oak­ley, stopped on Inter­state 65 to help the pas­sen­gers of an SUV that had flipped over after hit­ting some …

A free pro­gram for those who are watch­ing their weight and want to exer­cise heart health is being held on Thurs­day at the Defi­ance Area YMCA. Between 6:30 and 8 p.m Thurs­day, the annual Heart Health pro­gram, will include an address by Doc­tor Mohammed S. Alo, a car­di­ol­o­gist at Mercy …

No dam­age esti­mates have yet been released fol­low­ing a fire in West Unity Sun­day night that dam­aged a home on County Road 21-N. Accord­ing to inves­ti­ga­tors, it started as a chim­ney fire, then broke through into an upstairs bed­room. Fire­fight­ers fought the flames and the cold weather for sev­eral hours …

A Defi­ance farmer has won $2,500 for the Defi­ance County Ag Soci­ety through America’s Farm­ers Grow Com­mu­ni­ties. Sheri Schliesser has been selected as a win­ner in America’s Farm­ers Grow Com­mu­ni­ties, spon­sored by the Mon­santo Fund. The pro­gram enrolls farm­ers for a chance to win $2,500, which is then donated to …

Fire­fight­ers bat­tled flames and the cold weather Sat­ur­day after­noon on Kiser Road in Defi­ance. A couple’s home there suf­fered sig­nif­i­cant dam­age. It was dis­cov­ered bur­ing in the kitchen when the home­own­ers came home around 2:30 Sat­ur­day after­noon. Dam­age to the struc­ture at 20268 Kiser Road was esti­mated at around $100,000 …

The Cres­cent News today reports that the CSX train car­ry­ing crude oil, which derailed in West Vir­ginia last week, passed through Defi­ance and Henry coun­ties before trav­el­ing south. Tracy Busch, the Direc­tor of the Henry County Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency, told the paper that a lot of the ethanol and crude …

A Bryan man has pleaded guilty in a Williams County rape case. 28 year old Richard Mojica Jr was indicted by a Williams County grand jury in Decem­ber. He pleaded guilty Thurs­day. Mojica is charged in an inci­dent that hap­pened back in May last year, when he allgedly engaged in …