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Margaret Ann Gerken, age 80, of Archbold, passed away Wednesday morning, July 15, 2015 at Evergreen Manor in Montpelier. She had worked at Strydel in Stryker, and then for Sauder Woodworking in Archbold, where she retired after 20 years. Margaret was born in Napoleon on May 12, 1935, the daughter …

The Williams County Fair Foun­da­tion Board met recently, and decided to nix the pur­chase of pic­nic tables for the fair­grounds. Pre­vi­ously, the board had agreed to spend about $2,000 for pic­nic tables at the fair­grounds. But after dis­cus­sion, a motion to pur­chase the tables, using the pro­ceeds of a recent …

State school board mem­bers on Tues­day, accused the Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion of break­ing the law by throw­ing online schools’ fail­ing grades out of a char­ter school eval­u­a­tion this year. Accord­ing to the Plain Dealer in Cleve­land, School Choice Direc­tor David Hansen was bound by law to include online school …

A Bryan man was picked up and arrested on a bench war­rant out of Napoleon Munic­i­pal Court. Yes­ter­day after­noon at 3:24PM, Bryan Police caught up with 37 year old Tony Odham of South Wal­nut Street in Bryan. Odham was taken into cus­tody, but he later posted bond and was released.

The Ohio Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency announced Wednes­day it is issu­ing Defi­ance a $393,750 low-interest loan to update the city’s blue­print for con­trol­ling com­bined sewer over­flows, an impor­tant source of phos­pho­rus that pro­duces algae in west­ern Lake Erie and its trib­u­taries. Ini­tial ben­e­fits won’t be real­ized for sev­eral years, until the …

A new chap­ter begins today in Williams County Court, when the county’s first Drug Court con­venes. Judge Stelzer will meet with the court’s team of men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als, recov­ery ser­vices staff and pro­ba­tion depart­ment per­son­nel to con­sider the first four poten­tial can­di­dates for the new ven­ture. Drug Court will now …

An Edon woman was arrested Tues­day night by Williams County Sheriff’s Deputies. 27 year old Angela Townsend was picked up on a Bryan Munic­i­pal Court bench war­rant for fail­ure to appear in court on an orig­i­nal charge of dri­ving under sus­pen­sion, improper lane change, and expired license plates. Townsend was …

Ohio’s pop­u­la­tion of those 65 and older is grow­ing. Newly released data from the U.S. Cen­sus Bureau shows that the north­west cor­ner of the state is no excep­tion to that find­ing. The lat­est fig­ures show that Defi­ance County’s 65+ pop­u­la­tion grew by 1.8 per­cent between 2010 and 2014 — from …

Arch­bold Area Schools’ super­in­ten­dent will stick around and head up the dis­trict for five more years. A Mon­day night vote by the Arch­bold Area Board of Edu­ca­tion approved a new five-year con­tract for super­in­ten­dent Aaron Rex effec­tive Aug. 1, 2016.

A Fre­mont man was in Steuben Supe­rior Court on Mon­day, where he pleaded guilty to felony charges of deal­ing in Metham­phet­a­mine. 23-year-old Jere­miah Bates was arrested in April. Bates and 28-year-old co-defendant Christo­pher Hen­kle allegedly sold meth to a con­fi­den­tial infor­mant for $1,050 last Decem­ber. The plea deal reached yes­ter­day, …