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Benefit For Fire Company Set For June 27

It was back in April, that the com­mu­nity of Edon lost its fire depart­ment after a fire in one of the truck bays. No one was injured, but all the fire trucks and nearly all of the gear was destroyed. Now, Com­mu­nity Memo­r­ial Hos­pi­tal of Hicksville is spon­sor­ing a 5K …

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Two Injured In Motorcycle Crash On I-69

Two Michi­gan res­i­dents were injured Mon­day morn­ing in a motor­cy­cle crash on I-69 at the Crooked Lake Exit. It hap­pened yes­ter­day morn­ing around 5:00am when the back tire appar­ently blew out on a motor­cy­cle dri­ven by 46-year-old Robert Lane of Flint, Michi­gan. Lane lost con­trol of the bike, which then …

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Search On For Missing Teen

A teenage girl left home early last Wednes­day. She hasn’t been seen since. 15 year old Zoe Belle Rhoads was last seen in McClure at her father’s home between 2–2:30 a.m. Wednes­day. She’s described as about 5-foot, three inches tall. Rhoads is a sopho­more Napoleon High School, and although she …

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Bryan Police Make Drug Arrest

Although Bryan Police have remained very tight lipped about it, we do know that early on Sat­ur­day, they arrested a Bryan man on a drug charge. 19 year old Dakota McNany was charged with pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana. McNany was also charged with under­age con­sump­tion. McNany’s arrest came just after 1am …

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West Unity Sewer Problems Addressed

It looks like the vil­lage of West Unity may have some seri­ous prob­lems con­cern­ing it’s sewer plan. The Bryan Times reports that vil­lage offi­cials fear the plant may now be too small after some com­pli­ance prob­lems at the plant were revealed last week. Addi­tion­ally, the plant’s ultra­vi­o­let dis­in­fec­tion sys­tem is …

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Detroit Man Nabbed In Edgerton

Edger­ton Police, and their tac­ti­cal unit, arrested a Detroit man who they report as armed and dan­ger­ous , on a felony war­rant. 36 year old Brazel Gar­den­hire was taken into cus­to­day fol­low­ing a traf­fic stop on E. River St. in Edger­ton. Also caught was 30 year old Danielle Brun­son of …

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One Injured In Crash

A Jim­mer­son Lake man was injured Wednes­day night in a Hills­dale County traf­fic acci­dent. 27-year-old Nicholas Carl Collins was injured in the crash which took place at about 8:30pm on West Ter­ri­to­r­ial Road west of South Edon Road in Cam­den Town­ship. Police say Collins lost con­trol of his vehi­cle, went …

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Pool Problems Plague Defiance

Defiance’s Kings­bury Pool is leak­ing, but repairs will have to wait untiil after the sum­mer sea­son. The leak was detected last week while the pool was being filled, when the water level dropped three inches over just a 16-hour period. The leak is sus­pected on a 10-inch drain line that …

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Bridge Work Occuring In Defiance

The city of Defi­ance has been noti­fied by the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion Dis­trict 1 that work will be con­ducted on the Ohio 66/Jefferson Avenue bridge, June 15–17. The bridge deck will be sealed dur­ing this time period, weather per­mit­ting. Traf­fic will be main­tained to one lane dur­ing the main­te­nance …

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Ohio FFA State President Is A Local

Matthew Klopfen­stein, a 2014 Wayne Trace grad­u­ate, is the newly elected Ohio FFA state pres­i­dent, after being elected by del­e­gates at the 87th State FFA Con­ven­tion. Now, his job is to travel the state, vis­it­ing chap­ters and con­duct­ing work­shops, and also serv­ing as the del­e­gate for Ohio at the National …

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