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Good Samar­i­tan School in Defi­ance is hold­ing it’s first Mom to Mom fundraiser next month. The event is being billed as the equiv­a­lent of a large indoor garage sale for par­ents, with children’s items avail­able for pur­chase. It will kick off on April 11th at 9am and run until 1pm …

A plan that details how Ohio will ensure that peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties receive inte­grated ser­vices has been sub­mit­ted to fed­eral author­i­ties accord­ing to Quadco. The state tran­si­tion plan was sent to the Cen­ters for Medicare and Med­ic­aid Ser­vices this month. Just as the state has been work­ing on this process, …

A Hicksville man is still in the hosp­tial, recov­er­ing from a shoot­ing March 16 at his home. 45 year old Gus Camp was listed in sta­ble con­di­tion at Lutheran Hos­pi­tal in Fort Wayne ear­lier this week. His mother, 71 year old Mar­garet Camp, is charged with shoot­ing her son Gus, …

In Sher­wood, the replace­ment of a water main between a the pump house and the water tower today, will call for a boil advi­sory begin­ning at 1 this after­noon. In addi­tion to the boil advi­sory, Sher­wood res­i­dents may expe­ri­ence inter­rmit­tent loss of water pres­sure. The work is nec­es­sary to cor­rect …

A man already charged in fed­eral court in Defi­ance in con­nec­tion with the dis­tri­b­u­tion of cocaine has been arraigned. Ryan Bow­man of Payne, pleaded not guilty in the U.S. Dis­trict Court for the North­ern Dis­trict of Indi­ana to con­spir­acy to deliver more than five kilo­grams of cocaine. Bow­man was one …

The Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union of Ohio has sent a let­ter to the super­in­ten­dent of the Edon North­west Local School Dis­trict ask­ing him to aban­don sec­tar­ian poli­cies and prac­tices that the ACLU claims vio­late the First Amend­ment to the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion. The let­ter comes as the ACLU is inves­ti­gat­ing reports …

A Henry County woman was injured in a Mon­day evening crash. It hap­pened as 77 year old JoAnn Baden­hop of McClure was trav­el­ing west on US-24 in Lib­erty Town­ship, when her vehi­cle went out of con­trol, hit the median, then a sign, and finally stopped after flip­ping over twice. McClure, …

Bryan police report the arrest of 21 year old Kristo­pher Shutts [SHUTS] of Bryan on a Felony war­rant out of Steuben County Cir­cuit Court. The orig­i­nal charge against Shutts was Inter­fer­ence with Cus­tody. He was taken to CCNO. Also arrested on Mon­day… 21 year old Brook Lil­lard of Wes­ley Avenue …

In Defi­ance, city employee over­time costs topped $550,000 last year with the police and fire depart­ments account­ing for more than two-thirds of that expense. The Cres­cent News reports that city records indi­cate that $201,302 went for fire depart­ment over­time costs, and $156,194 was paid for police over­time… 64.3 per­cent of …

Sen­a­tor Cliff Hite of Find­lay, has announced that the state will invest $150,000 to sup­port indus­trial expan­sion in north­west Ohio. The $150,000 in fund­ing will go to road projects in Hicksville that sup­port the expan­sion of A&P Tool, Inc. The facil­ity, near State Route 49, will add 14,000 square feet …