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It’s finally here. The annual Defi­ance hol­i­day orna­ment is being sold at the Down­town Defi­ance Vis­i­tors Bureau, Deluxe Clean­ers and at Stam­baugh Jew­el­ers. The orna­ment fea­tures Defi­ance High School and only 500 are avail­able. They are $10 each, and the moneh goes to pay for the city’s hol­i­day dec­o­rat­ing committee.

A Pauld­ing man charged with escape from a med­ical fur­lough in Octo­ber has pleaded not guilty by rea­son of insan­ity in Pauld­ing County Com­mon Pleas Court. He’s 26-year-old J. Tucker Har­man. He was arrested in Cheboy­gan County, Michi­gan last month. He walked away from med­ical fur­lough on Octo­ber 30th. His …

Two Defi­ance High School mem­bers of the National Honor Soci­ety are hop­ing to help the food bank with a canned food drive at the bas­ket­ball game between Defi­ance and Bryan tonight at Defi­ance High School. Lau­ren Howard and Mal­lory Mor­ton are ask­ing for cans, non-perishable food items and cash if …

To honor fallen vet­er­ans, a wreath-laying cer­e­mony is planned for this Sat­ur­day in Defi­ance at River­side Ceme­tery in the vet’s sec­tion. The cer­e­mony orig­i­nated at Arling­ton National Ceme­tery in 1992. The wreaths will arrive Fri­day by truck, and vol­un­teers will lay them begin­ning 11 a.m. Sat­ur­day. A cer­e­mony will wrap …

Hats off to the chil­dren in Bryan City Schools, who worked hard to raise $6,715 to help pro­vide less for­tu­nate area chil­dren with an enjoy­able hol­i­day. The amount raised has bro­ken the dis­trict record for con­tri­bu­tions to the “Christ­mas for Kids” program.

The Toledo Air Show is back next year, and the Air Force Thun­der­birds will be there! It’s gonna be held July 16th and 17th at the Toledo Express Air­port. The offi­cial air demon­stra­tion team of the U.S. Air Force has been active since 1953. This is the first year for …

Williams County Sheriff’s deputies made an arrest Wednes­day night. 43-year-old Mark Coblentz of Mont­pe­lier was arrested on a felony war­rant out of the Williams County Com­mon Pleas Court. The orig­i­nal charge was for fail­ing to com­ply with the terms and con­di­tions of the pre trial release pro­gram. He was taken …

If you pro­cras­ti­nate on those out­door hol­i­day lights, you have no excuse this week­end. It is expected to feel more like April than Decem­ber this week­end. National Weather Ser­vice fore­cast­ers say unsea­son­ably mild weather will con­tinue through the week­end. We’ll see record highs in the low six­ties and record warm …

A Bryan man is fac­ing mul­ti­ple counts of theft handed down from the Williams County Grand Jury. 33-year-old Den­nis Pol­ing is accused of tak­ing debit card, a cell phone and other items.

It’s that time of year again! Grad­u­at­ing seniors look­ing for schol­ar­ship money. The Ohio Soy Foun­da­tion is look­ing for appli­cants for 9 schol­ar­ships worth thou­sands of dollars. They include eight schol­ar­ships for $3,000 for under­grad­u­ate stud­ies. One grad­u­ate schol­ar­ship is worth $5,000. Appli­ca­tions are due in lit­tle over a month, …