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In Steuben County, the County Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Cen­ter has begun imple­ment­ing new pro­ce­dures when tak­ing med­ical calls after recent reports of Ebola both inter­na­tion­ally and here in the United States. Staff mem­bers already have pre-arrival ques­tion­ing and instruc­tion for med­ical calls. Now how­ever, callers or third-party callers will be asked addi­tional …

IN Defi­ance, the 69th annual Lions Club Hal­loween parade was held Sat­ur­day evening. This year, more than 100 entries took part, includ­ing eight march­ing bands, sev­eral area fire depart­ments, clas­sic and antique cars, school and church groups, and busi­nesses. Parade-goers lined Clin­ton Street from Tri­an­gle Park to First Street, some …

On Sun­day, Bryan Police report­edly arrested 21 year old Jacob Queck­borner of Milledgeville, IL, for OVI. He was taken to CCNO. No fur­ther details have been released by police.

Good week­end eat­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties. The Scar­let Strut­ters Baton Corps will hold the annual fundraiser chili din­ner Sun­day at Ayersville United Methodist Church on Defi­ance Ayersville Road. Buy­ing a chili din­ner for 6 dol­lars gets you a free refill. Money goes to cos­tumes and trips for the baton corps. And the …

It is begin­ning to look like Christ­mas in Bryan and it’s not even Hal­loween. Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties elec­tri­cal work­ers have been string­ing up Christ­mas lights down­town on the light poles. There are 61 days between today and Christ­mas Day.

In Napoleon, the fire chief is quit­ting, but the rea­sons are unclear. Robert Ben­nett told city offi­cials he would resign effec­tive Novem­ber first and Coun­cil was asked at this week’s meet­ing to pass an agree­ment of sep­a­ra­tion, which it did with­out debate. When asked how come Ben­nett was placed on …

The State High­way Patrol reminds dri­vers that this is the sea­son when deer are very active and most car and deer col­li­sions hap­pen. Sun­day a car was heav­ily dam­aged hit­ting a deer on US 127 in Wash­ing­ton Town­ship in Defi­ance County. On Mon­day a car hit a deer also in …

For the past week north­ern Ohio has been con­sumed with Ebola anx­i­ety after Texas nurse and Akron native Amber Vin­son was diag­nosed with the deadly virus after fly­ing home with an ele­vated tem­per­a­ture and then feel­ing ill after she arrived at her parent’s home in Tall­madge. Now, it appears Amber …

Defiance’s loss is Napoleon’s gain, as Defi­ance Stamp­ing, which has called Defi­ance home since 1928, is mov­ing to fac­tory and office space in Napoleon. The com­pany took out a long term lease on the build­ing located off US 24 and will ask Napoleon for a small incen­tive deal to help …

Bryan’s direc­tor of the Hill­side County Liv­ing facil­ity on County Road 16 in Bryan is gone, sub­mit­ting his res­ig­na­tion after the Ohio Depart­ment of Health dis­cov­ered his administrator’s license had expired. Jef­frey Wan­ge­ness is out, and for­mer admin­is­tra­tor Mar­cia Hauer is back in. The health depart­ment came to Hill­side to …