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In Defi­ance, police today con­tinue their inves­ti­ga­tion into a pedestrian/train acci­dent that hap­pened early Sun­day morn­ing. It was just after 1am Sun­day, at the rail­road cross­ing at Ottawa Avenue, when 36 year old William Southam Jr of Ham­ler, was report­edly walk­ing south on Ottawa Avenue, when for some rea­son, he …

Red Nose Day is com­ing. It’s this Thurs­day, and it’s designed to raise money for chil­dren and young peo­ple liv­ing in poverty. Cor­po­rate part­ners Wal­greens and M&M’s stand behind the efforts to raise money Thurs­day, which will be donated to 12 char­i­ties that ben­e­fit young peo­ple. Locally, stu­dents at Holy …

Sum­mer food pro­grams here in North­west Ohio are get­ting ready to kick off. The North­west­ern Ohio Com­mu­nity Action Com­mis­sion offers the pro­gram, along with the U.S. Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion and Ohio Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture. The aim is to make sure that kids get free and healthy lunches when school is …

The fam­ily of a man from Cecil, includ­ing his sur­viv­ing spouse, have been awarded $2.7 mil­lion as a result of a set­tle­ment after a fatal acci­dent that hap­pened in Defi­ance County almost exactly four years ago. It was in May of 2011 when James and Pamela Wor­man were rid­ing a …

Well, here’s some good news for Bryan. The town has been picked as the best town in Ohio, accord­ing to an inter­net search and review com­pany. The Bryan Times reports that it was high marks for edu­ca­tion, hous­ing, things to do and eas­i­est com­mute, that pushed Bryan to the top …

A busy week­end for Bryan Police… On Sun­day, 23 year old Johann Brock of Antwerp was arrested for OVI, not using his turn sig­nal, run­ning a red­light, and not wear­ing a seat­belt. In the end though, Brock was released. Also on Sun­day, police arrested 34 year old Mar­sha Love of …

An acci­dent involv­ing a pedes­trian and a train occurred early Sun­day morn­ing in Defi­ance. It was just after 1am yes­ter­day, when the call came in about the mishap at the rail­road cross­ing on Ottawa Avenue. So far, the vic­tim has not been iden­ti­fied. We do know how­ever, that the pedes­trian …

The Pauld­ing Cham­ber of Com­merce Lead­er­ship in Action group has under­taken the project of research­ing and rais­ing aware­ness to make U.S. 24 safer. The results of that project are expected to help the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion do just that. The group pre­sented their find­ings on Wednes­day at the Pauld­ing …

A Swan­ton woman died in a crash Tues­day morn­ing. The Henry County Sheriff’s Office says 35 year old Trisha Palmer died at the scene of that acci­dent, that hap­pened at 10:30 a.m., at County Road L and Town­ship Road 3. Palmer was dri­ving a U.S. Postal Ser­vice truck, when she …

Those turn­ing 65 years old this year, have only until Mon­day, June 1 to apply for the Ohio home­stead exemp­tion reduc­tion. In addi­tion, if you are a new appli­cant, who owns or occu­pies a home, and will turn 65 in 2015, or if you become per­manantly dis­abled, you will be …