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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, …

An Arch­bold man was in Ful­ton County Court on Mon­day, where he was sen­tenced for his part in a theft. 32 year old Tyler Gray will spend 2 years under com­mu­nity con­trol after plead­ing guilty. Gray was found guilty of steal­ing and then and reselling grain from April of 2013 …