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A man was hurt Sun­day morn­ing while try­ing to res­cue live­stock from a barn fire. It hap­pened on Ful­ton County Road C early Sun­day morn­ing, around 3:30am. When fire­fight­ers got there, the barn was fully engulfed in flames. Clay­ton Foor rented the prop­erty, where he tended to a herd of …

Coun­ties here in north­west Ohio are doing a lot bet­ter than those in other areas of the state when it comes to health. Defi­ance County res­i­dents in par­tic­u­lar, show lower rates of pre­ma­ture death and exces­sive drink­ing, and are report­ing fewer sexually-transmitted dis­eases than the statewide aver­age. But the good …

A busy week­end for Bryan Police… 24 year old Alex Behrman of Napoleon, was arrested for OVI early Sat­ur­day morn­ing. He was released. Also on Sat­ur­day, just after 2am, Bryan Police arrested Shane Smith-Myers of Bryan, for Pos­ses­sion of Mar­i­juana Para­pher­na­lia. He too was released. Then on Sun­day, Bryan Police …

The Williams County Port Author­ity is being restarted, with Bill Pep­ple des­ig­nated, by the county com­mis­sion­ers, as the new Port Author­ity Chair­man. The Williams County Port Author­ity was formed back in 2007, but has not been oper­at­ing for the past sev­eral years. A Port Author­ity is a gov­ern­men­tal entity that …

Lots of road work is planned for this year on Defi­ance County. In fact, the total of the projects that are planned not rings up to about $3.5 mil­lion worth, with the largest being the widen­ing of Har­ris Road, between Ohio 18 and Blan­chard Road. Other plans include paving Blosser …

A man dri­ving an old police cruiser was involved in a police chase, but he was on the wrong end of it in the end. 25 year old Brian Hul­bert, Sr. of Mark Cen­ter lost con­trol of his 1993 Ford Crown Vic­to­ria dur­ing a police pur­suit that started around 7:45 …

A drug bust Thurs­day after­noon in Mont­pe­lier ended up with four peo­ple behind bars. An anony­mous tip lead to a search war­rant, which lead to the arrests at the home on East Court Street. Meth, pot, and drug para­pher­na­lia all were dis­cov­ered in the raid. The inves­ti­ga­tion is widen­ing, and …

Bryan Police have cracked a case involv­ing a dam­aged vehi­cle that hap­pened last week­end. It was around 2:30 Sat­ur­day morn­ing, when a Chrysler hit a parked Chevy Blazer on South Williams Street. The dri­ver left the scene, but also left the dam­aged vehi­cle in the mid­dle of the street. It …

Fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of Ayersville Local Board of Edu­ca­tion vice pres­i­dent Brad Mor­ri­son ear­lier this month, the board met in a spe­cial exec­u­tive ses­sion Wednes­day evening and named a new board mem­ber. Lanie Lam­bert will serve effec­tively imme­di­ately until Dec. 31. If Lam­bert wants to con­tinue serv­ing on the school …

In Defi­ance County, the board of elec­tions direc­tor will be resign­ing. Pam Schroeder, who took over as direc­tor in 2010 when Wayne Ols­son retired, has decided to step down, effec­tive on April 3. Schroeder has accepted a new job in the pri­vate sec­tor. Schroeder was appointed direc­tor in March 2010, …