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It’s bud­get time for many orga­ni­za­tions, and the Fort Defi­ance Humane Soci­ety is ask­ing county com­mis­sion­ers to pro­vide another $10k for 2016 to deal with a feral cat problem. Com­mis­sion­ers say they’ll con­sider the request.

A for­mer Gen­eral Motors team leader has taken up a free bicy­cle pro­gram, after his brother-in-law started the pro­gram. Larry Sparks repairs bikes and gives them away to needy fam­i­lies. Sparks gets many requests every day. He said he has about 100 bikes on hand now, and said he’s received …

Three peo­ple were arrested on drug charges after they were pulled over in a traf­fic stop for fail­ing to sig­nal a turn. The arrests hap­pened on North Cherry Street about 2 a.m. Sun­day. The OSP trooper said one pas­sen­ger had drug para­pher­na­lia, which led to a search. Drugs were found …

An arrest has been made for the bomb threat at Bryan Mid­dle School last Thurs­day that forced the school to be evacuated. The 12-year-old female stu­dent turned her­self in. Bryan Police Chief Michael Willis said the Williams County Juve­nile Pro­ba­tion Depart­ment will get the report. The pros­e­cu­tor will ulti­mately decide …

A Fre­mont man was sen­tenced to six years of a ten year prison term for deal­ing metham­phet­a­mine in Steuben Cir­cuit Court. 24-year-old Niko­lus Nevois pled guilty on Sep­tem­ber 28th to a pair of Class B felony charges. Nevois was arrested last March fol­low­ing an IMAGE Drug Task Force investigation.

The Indi­ana State Fire Marshal’s Office says an explo­sion that took place at a home on the south side of Ash­ley on Mon­day night that killed one per­son and injured two oth­ers was caused by an LP gas leak with an out­side igni­tion source. Ash­ley Police said on their Face­book …

The Defi­ance City Board of Edu­ca­tion met this week to hear how a new pro­posed sports com­plex could save the dis­trict a mil­lion dol­lars and be a boost to busi­ness. Accord­ing to Brad Mor­ri­son of Maumee Bay Turf Cen­ter, the field can be used year round and last 10 years …

The Wauseon Pub­lic Library, 117 E. Elm St., will be closed is obser­vance of Thanks­giv­ing, from Nov. 26–28. The library will reopen at 10 a.m. on Mon­day, Nov. 30.

The Defi­ance County Health Depart­ment says that changes are com­ing and they will alter its pub­lic mis­sion. Many of the immu­niza­tions now offered by the health depart­ment will not be avail­able there. Because the Afford­able Care Act now cov­ers immu­niza­tions at 100 per­cent, the Health Depart­ment will not be giv­ing children’s …

With all the focus on the big box stores com­pletely chang­ing “Black Fri­day”, small busi­nesses in our area are remind­ing shop­pers that Sat­ur­day is “small busi­ness Saturday” Amer­i­can Express is part­ner­ing again with small busi­nesses all around the nation to pro­mote Small Busi­ness Sat­ur­day. It’s a rel­a­tively new tra­di­tion that …