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It’s the time of year for tra­di­tions, and at Defi­ance Col­lege, the annual Thanks­giv­ing cel­e­bra­tion was held last week for over 400 stu­dents. Because most of the stu­dent body goes home for the hol­i­day, the col­lege fixes the meal for the entire stu­dent body the week before Thanks­giv­ing. This is …

Thanks­giv­ing week is here, and the hol­i­days are just around the cor­ner. Napoleon will have the Christ­mas parade tonight from 6–7 pm down­town. Thurs­day, the 18th annual Turkey Trot will be held begin­ning at 8:30 a.m. at Inde­pen­dence Dam State Park. It’s a four-mile run or fun walk. You can …

A woman miss­ing from Hicksville for sev­eral hours was even­tu­ally located more than 10 miles away in Har­lan, Indi­ana. The 66-year-old woman left home on foot. The Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office said police depart­ment has not released any more information.

In news that affects your wal­let, the local econ­omy is improv­ing. The Ohio Treasurer’s Office reports that sales tax dis­tri­b­u­tions are up more than a half mil­lion dol­lars from March to August this year. July was the biggest sales month, March was the slow­est. Accord­ing to the Depart­ment of Labor, …

The E. coli out­break at Chipo­tle restau­rants has now hit Ohio. The CDC says new cases have been reported in Cal­i­for­nia, New York and Ohio. The affected Ohio loca­tion is report­edly in Akron. TheCDC is try­ing to deter­mine the spe­cific food that is linked to the ill­ness. So far, the …

New info this morn­ing about Bradly Gilbert. He’s charged with the mur­der of Jonathon Hofner of Wauseon. Last week, Gilbert entered a “not guilty by rea­son of insan­ity” plea in Williams County Court of Com­mon Pleas. After Hofner’s body was found on a hik­ing trail in Mont­pe­lier on Octo­ber 26th, …

Bryan Mid­dle School was evac­u­ated Thurs­day after­noon after a bomb threat was found in one of the school’s bath­rooms. Bryan Police, Ohio State Patrol, Williams County Sheriff’s and Bryan Fire depart­ments responded. They would not com­ment on any pos­si­ble sus­pects, or motives. A press release from Bryan City Schools stated …

Just 30 miles north of Bryan, human skele­tal remains were dis­cov­ered near U.S. 127 in Hills­dale County Michi­gan. They were found on prop­erty where con­struc­tion crews were dig­ging in a pile of stone on 127, between Fayette and Hudson. Police brought in anthro­pol­o­gists from Michi­gan State Uni­ver­sity. They deter­mined that …

The Napoleon Area Board of Edu­ca­tion learned that con­struc­tion of the new Napoleon Ele­men­tary School is expected to be fin­ished by the end of Novem­ber, heard dis­cus­sion about options for soc­cer facil­i­ties in the dis­trict and entered into an agree­ment autho­riz­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion Coop­er­a­tive Pur­chas­ing …

Local drug agents arrested a Defi­ance man while exe­cut­ing a search war­rant at his home. 26-year-old Dustin Boroff was booked on heroin charges. 28-year-old Ash­ley Dal­ton was arrested on a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion and pos­ses­sion of heroin. The Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force found heroin and drug para­pher­na­lia in the search. The pair …