Government

Offi­cials with the U.S. Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity were in Defi­ance and Napoleon Tues­day morn­ing. They served search war­rants at two local restau­rants. The U.S. Immi­gra­tion and Cus­toms Enforce­ment, spe­cial agents with Immi­gra­tion and Cus­toms Enforcement’s Home­land Secu­rity Inves­ti­ga­tions, exe­cuted fed­eral search war­rants at Azul Tequila restau­rants in Defi­ance and …

A rec­om­men­da­tion to extend the sea­son at the city’s munic­i­pal golf course was approved Mon­day by the Napoleon City Coun­cil. Coun­cil approved the parks and recre­ation board’s rec­om­men­da­tion to lengthen the sea­son from March 15 to Nov. 15. in order to increase revenues.

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 …

The vil­lage of West Unity has announced that two street paving projects will begin in June. ODOT will mill and pave U.S. 127, both north and south of the village’s down­town limit. Gerken Paving is the sub­con­trac­tor for that job. In addi­tion, M&M Asphalt, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, will …

The con­tro­versy con­tin­ues to brew over the Pauld­ing County com­mis­sion­ers’ deci­sion to put daily over­sight of the county Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency and dog war­den office under the sheriff’s office. Now, it’s being taken to social media. A Face­book page called Recall Pauld­ing Ohio Com­mis­sion­ers has been started. The site had …

On Tues­day the Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs passed a res­o­lu­tion to accept a con­tract with Michi­gan Under­ground LLC for the 2013 Nor­lick Place elec­tric pri­mary and sec­ondary replace­ment project for $54,898. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, it’s the sec­ond time the project has been sub­mit­ted for bids. The first …

Meet­ing in reg­u­lar ses­sion Mon­day evening, Edger­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil dis­cussed con­cerns res­i­dents had about the pro­posed change in trash ser­vice. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the village’s cur­rent con­tracts for trash and recy­cling pick-up, along with the two large trash pick-ups, cost the vil­lage approx­i­mately $30,000 a year. Because of …

Ohio offi­cials plan to bol­ster crim­i­nal back­ground checks for those home health-care work­ers who pro­vide direct care to the dis­abled and elderly. The state has received a $2.1 mil­lion fed­eral grant to pro­vide increased reviews for more than 100,000 work­ers who serve patients in Med­ic­aid– and Medicare-funded set­tings. Ohio also …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil sealed the deal on an annex­a­tion near U.S. 24 and Car­pen­ter Road on Tues­day night by approv­ing an ordi­nance accept­ing the annex­a­tion on Com­merce Drive. It brings about 46 acres of Rich­land Town­ship into the city next to Johns Manville’s Car­pen­ter Road plant and just south of …

Some Ohio con­ser­v­a­tives who say they were tar­geted by the Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice are head­ing to Wash­ing­ton as fed­eral inves­ti­ga­tions widen into the agency’s han­dling of tax-exempt appli­ca­tions. Sev­eral activists on Wednes­day described IRS treat­ment they sus­pect was polit­i­cally moti­vated. The Jus­tice Depart­ment is open­ing a crim­i­nal probe into improper …