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The Auburn Board of Pub­lic Works and Safety voted on Thurs­day to sus­pend two Auburn Police Offi­cers after more than $2,000 in cash was stolen from the police department’s evi­dence room. Offi­cer Steve Ryan was sus­pended for 35 days, and offi­cer Steve Val­lance got a 30 day sus­pen­sion. Now, the …

The Williams County Sheriff’s depart­ment reminds dri­vers that the nation­wide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” cam­paign is in full effect, and it is being enforced locally too. The height­ened enforce­ment period began on August 21st and it runs through Mon­day, August 31st. Grant money from the Depart­ment of Pub­lic …

Fron­tier Com­mu­ni­ca­tions hosted a cel­e­bra­tion on Thurs­day night to honor Fre­mont and Angola for becom­ing quarter-finalists in the America’s Best Com­mu­ni­ties com­pe­ti­tion, a $10 mil­lion com­pe­ti­tion designed to revi­tal­ize small towns and rural com­mu­ni­toes. Angola and Fre­mont won $50,000 for get­ting through the first round, and will learn in Jan­u­ary …

A vehi­cle fire at Green Acres Trailer Court on Ohio 66, destroyed a Jeep and dam­aged a mobile home. It hap­pened Wednes­day morn­ing around 11, and the flames were quickly put out by Defi­ance fire­fight­ers. A woman and child liv­ing in the mobile home were checked out by Defi­ance EMS, …

Bryan Police on Thurs­day evening, arrested 24 year old Kristin Way of Hills­dale, Michi­gan on a charge of Com­plic­ity to Com­mit Theft… or Shoplift­ing. She was taken toCCNO. Police did not release the loca­tion of that arrest or any other details. Also last evening, 25 year old Adam Reese, also …

An unusual vis­i­tor showed up on Wednes­day in Bryan. The Green Rush Bus Tour, spon­sored by Respon­si­ble Ohio was in town yes­ter­day. The group is pro-marijuana, and they are behind a pro­posed state con­sti­tu­tional amend­ment ques­tion which will appear on the Novem­ber bal­lot. If passed, “Issue-3″ as it will appear …

On Tues­day night, at the reg­u­lar meet­ing of Defi­ance City Coun­cil, coun­cilmem­bers learned about an inno­v­a­tive traf­fic con­trol device that is being pro­posed for one Defi­ance inter­sec­tion. A round­about was pro­posed by a con­sult­ing firm. Now, the mayor plans to ask coun­cil to approve an appli­ca­tion for an Ohio Depart­ment …

Today, at the ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal in Defi­ance, there will be an infor­ma­tional meet­ing on the pro­posed ET Rover and NEXUS gas pipelines, which if built, would carry “fracked” nat­ural gas from the East Coast of the United States through Ohio and Michi­gan to a sta­tion in Ontario, Canada. …

Unem­ploy­ment in the six-county area was at or below the state aver­age for July. In fact, Put­nam County was one of 10 coun­ties in the state that had an unem­ploy­ment rate at or below 4 per­cent for the month. The low­est rate was 3.3 per­cent in Mer­cer County. Mon­roe County …

An Angola man is headed to prison for decades fol­low­ing his sen­tenc­ing Tues­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. 49-year-old Jef­frey Pep­pler was sen­tenced to 60 years behind bars, for stab­bing his 52-year-old sis­ter Paige to death on Jan­u­ary 3rd. The 60 year sen­tence was the max­i­mum allowed under terms of a …