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Audrey Walk, 89

Audrey Marie Walk, 89 years, of Sherwood, passed away Tuesday, May 28, 2013 in her residence.  Audrey was born July 4, 1923 in Perry County, Ohio, the daughter of the late Vance and Gertrude (Schroeder) Higgins.  She married Frank Wojcinski and he preceded her in death.  She then married Ralph Bishop on April …

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Larry Yoh, 60

Larry James Yoh, age 60, of rural Wauseon, passed away on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in his home Visitation will be held from 2:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. on Friday, May 31, 2013 at the Edgar-Grisier Funeral Home in Wauseon. The funeral service will be held at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, …

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Bryan PD Makes Arrests

Two arrests yes­ter­day in Bryan… Bryan Police say they arrested 19 year old Edward Bran­don of South Union Street in Bryan and 20 year old Justin Slay­back of Barder Park­way in Bryan. Both Bran­don and Slay­back are charged with dis­or­derly con­duct. After they were processed by police, they were released.

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Full Time Officer May Be Stationed In Defiance

Pend­ing the upcom­ing sub­mis­sion and pos­si­ble approval of a com­pet­i­tive U.S. Depart­ment of Jus­tice grant appli­ca­tion, there could likely be a full time police offi­cer sta­tioned in Defi­ance City Schools. A grant will be filed to help fund a com­mu­nity resource officer.The grant, if approved, would fund 75 per­cent of …

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Blood Drive Planned For Henry

The Amer­i­can Red Cross of Henry County will hold a blood drive on Mon­day, June 3 at the Ridgeville Cor­ners fire depart­ment from 1:30–6:30 p.m. Walk-ins are wel­come. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800-RED CROSS.

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OSHA Fines Several Companies

Two com­pa­nies were fined after safety vio­la­tions were found dur­ing inspec­tions at a man­u­fac­tur­ing plant in Erie County and a grain stor­age site in Ful­ton County. Kyk­los Bear­ing Inter­na­tional LLC of San­dusky, which pro­duces ball bear­ings for the auto indus­try, was fined $65,000 for safety vio­la­tions related to employ­ees exposed …

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Storm Cleanup Grants Available

A $15 mil­lion grant from the fed­eral gov­ern­ment will help Ohio cre­ate more than 1,000 tem­po­rary jobs for efforts to clean up and recover from severe storms that bat­tered the state last sum­mer in late June and early July. The U.S. Depart­ment of Labor ini­tially announced a grant for up …

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Man Killed By Corn

A 68-year-old Ohio man was crushed by corn in a grain silo. The body of War­ren Mumma was removed from the bot­tom of a silo in Clark County just after 4 p.m. Tues­day. Res­cue work­ers say Mumma had entered the silo and the corn col­lapsed on him.

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Quado Planning Programs

Quadco exec­u­tives began annual plan­ning with the mem­bers of the Admin­is­tra­tive and Non-Profit Boards on Tues­day. There are now 15 peo­ple in the train­ing pro­gram work­ing along­side other employ­ees at Quadco’s Stryker Sub­way and the Bryan and Defi­ance Sub­ways located in the Wal­mart stores. They are learn­ing to do the …

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