News Staff The panel…charged with making new maps of Ohio’s political districts…is poised to miss another deadline. Republican House Speaker, Bob Cupp, who chairs the Ohio Redistricting Commission, said Thursday’s meeting would be the panel’s last before its initial deadline Sunday for passing a bipartisan congressional map. No vote was scheduled. Voting rights advocates, including the League … Read more
The cost of incarceration for Williams, Fulton, Henry, Defiance and Lucas counties will be going down next year. The five member counties, supporting the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio will pay a per diem of $69.97 for each inmate in 2022…that’s a 1.8% decrease from the $71.85 this year.
A new bridge over the Maumee River in Napoleon will be opened following a public ceremony at 10 a.m. on Nov. 9. Ohio Department of Transportation, District 2 Deputy Director, Pat McColley, Henry County Engineer Tim Schumm and the Henry County Commissioners will lead the event that will be held on the southern portion of … Read more
For the first time in state history, Ohio recorded more deaths than births last year, a development experts say was expedited by COVID-19. Roughly 143,661 Ohio residents died in 2020…while 129,313 were born, that’s according to data from the Ohio Department of Health. So far in 2021, Ohio has logged 107,462 deaths and 100,781 births. … Read more
For two weekends in a row, Christ our Savior Lutheran Church in Defiance has been vandalized. The church, at the corner of Carter Road and Ohio 66 South, cancelled worship on Oct. 17 due to the break in, sometime the night of Oct. 16 to early morning on Oct. 17. A second incident happened in … Read more
State officials announce the first round of water infrastructure grant funding…though the Ohio BUILDS initiative…with $93 million dollars awarded to 54 projects, including one in Bryan. The city will receive a $2.1 million grant to replace approximately 8,200 feet of gravity sanitary sewer lines in the western part of the city. The new lines will … Read more
A Fayette man is sentenced to prison in a Williams County courtroom…for a theft-related crime spree involving a co-defendant. Austin Swirles gets four to six years behind bar…on three counts of burglary…safecracking…and more. He was also ordered to pay restitution of $3,000 and given credit for 73 days served in the Corrections Center of Northwest … Read more
Swanton Local Schools voters will decide next week…whether to approve a substitute levy that would mean no increase in taxes on current property. The five-year, 3.4-mill proposal would replace an emergency levy that originally passed at 6.9. Proponents say the first year of the substitute levy generates the same dollar amount as the emergency levy. … Read more
A Defiance County grand jury returns an attempted murder indictment. The panel accuses Tre Vasquez, on a list of felony charges. Prosecutors say Vasquez tried to strangle an adult female at a Seneca Street residence in Defiance. They add he intended to kill her. This happened back on October 8th. The victim was treated and … Read more
A teen driver is arrested…charged with a minor consuming alcohol…after crashing into a Waterloo field with two passengers in the car. Officials say, early Sunday, 18-year-old Summer Restle of Garrett was driving southbound on CR 27. She tries to turn east onto CR 14 at a high rate of speed. She misses the turn, and … Read more