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Good news for Defi­ance fire­fight­ers. City Coun­cil approved a new three year con­tract with the fire­fight­ers, that calls for annual raises on Tues­day night. The new con­tract is retroac­tive to Jan. 1 and will run until Dec. 31, 2017. Under the terms of the new con­tract, raises of 2.75 per­cent …

The for­mer head of the Williams County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (WEDCO), has been sen­tenced on OVI charges in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Dia­mond Zim­mer­man was sen­tenced to serve 90 days in jail, with 70 days sus­pended… as long as she has no new vio­la­tions within two years. Zim­mer­man will also lose …

The num­bers are in, and now it appears that Ohio’s white-tailed deer archery sea­son, which closed Sun­day, Feb. 1, mark­ing the end of Ohio’s 2014–15 deer hunt­ing sea­son, resulted in hunters across the state bag­ging a total of 175,745 deer dur­ing all 2014–15 hunt­ing sea­sons. The Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural …

The slip­pery north­side hill in Defi­ance cre­ated prob­lems for dri­vers and was behind sev­eral crashes Tues­day. In fact, four crashes occurred at North Clin­ton and High streets between 6:30 and 8 a.m. alone onTues­day morn­ing. There was no report of any­one being seri­ously hurt in those crashes yes­ter­day morn­ing, but …

In Wauseon, plans to build a new pool are mov­ing for­ward. A res­o­lu­tion aimed at plac­ing the new pool at a city park, received unan­i­mous sup­port from coun­cil dur­ing their Mon­day night meet­ing, and now will be headed toward a sec­ond read­ing. How a pool project would be funded how­ever, …

Heads up if you are head­ing out today… The National Weather Ser­vice in north­ern Indi­ana has issued a Win­ter Weather Advi­sory for Williams, Defi­ance, Henry, Pauld­ing, Put­nam, Ful­ton, Van Wert and Allen coun­ties. The advi­sory is from noon-7 p.m. today, and warns of haz­ardous weather and dri­ving con­di­tions, with snow …

Mildred I. Durbin, age 90, of Archbold, passed away Monday, February 2, 2015 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. Arrangements are pending at the Grisier Funeral Home in Archbold.

Last week’s raids by law enforce­ment on two tobacco shops in Williams County and a truck stop in Napoleon, has now ended up with a long list of seri­ous charges against an area man. 62 year old Michael Adams of Napoleon, the owner of all the busi­nesses that were hit, …

The Williams Met­ro­pol­i­tan Hous­ing Author­ity wait­ing list will be open at the Williams County com­mu­nity offices at 1425 E. High St., Bryan on Feb. 23 from 1–3 p.m.; on Feb. 25 from 9–11 a.m.; and on Feb. 27 from 1–3 p.m. Appli­cants must bring a piece of mail ver­i­fy­ing cur­rent …

On Mon­day, 24 year old Ste­fan R. Bates of Bryan, was arrested and taken into cus­tody by Bryan Police, on a charge of Pos­ses­sion of Heroin and Pos­ses­sion of Drug Abuse Instru­ments. Bates, it was then learned, had a felony war­rant out for his arrest through Williams County Court, and …