Napoleon News

Despite concentrated efforts to recruit more blood and platelet donors, the Red Cross is taking the next step to increase awareness of the need for these donors by offering a summer sweepstakes with a grand ...

The local Red Cross is making its perennial summertime plea for blood donations as overall supplies stand at about a day and some hospital shipments are being cut.

FREMONT -- Wally and The Beavs, one of Put-in-Bay's premiere Island bands, will be performing at the Sacred Heart Festival in Fremont from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

A probation officer in Maumee Municipal Court was named Thursday morning as the new director of the Lucas County Board of Elections.

Guatemala is a long distance from northwest Ohio, but the country's impoverished women remain close to the heart of Napoleon resident Daphne Cole.

Like just about everything else, the slow economy is affecting animal shelters and humane societies.

A Defiance County grand jury has returned indictments against 20 persons, according to Prosecutor Jeff Strausbaugh's office.

Army Sgt. Maj. Joel Dulyea answers his nation's call of duty with an exquisite tenor.

Dulyea serves not overseas, but in the homeland. He does not carry a weapon. Instead, he visits small towns in middle America, performing in high school gymnasiums and on makeshift stages and singing patriotic numbers such as 'God Bless the USA' and 'Battle Hymn of the Republic.'

He is a member of the Fort Meade-based Army Field Band, one of a group of military ensembles whose mission has changed from raising war bonds in World War II to boosting morale in the current 'global war on terror.' Few days are as big for these bands as Independence Day, when Dulyea's 90-member concert band and chorus is to perform on a river barge before a large crowd in Pittsburgh.

With gas prices setting record highs nearly every day, many Americans are being forced to trade in their performance cars and large trucks and SUVs due the high price of a fill up.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 at 6:08 p.m. Here is a list of fireworks displays for the Toledo area on the 4th of July: Toledo - Promenade Park at 10 p.m. Adrian - Lenawee County Fairgrounds at dusk Bowling Green - ...

Doug Pelmear said he isn't toying with the engine of 1987 Ford Mustang for the money.

Tuesday, July 01, 2008 at 1:18 p.m. Here is a list of fireworks displays for the Toledo area on the 4th of July: Toledo - Promenade Park at 10 p.m. Adrian - Lenawee County Fairgrounds at dusk Bowling Green - ...

Doug Pelmear has lots of secrets beneath the hood of his black 1987 Ford Mustang on which the only outward hint of individuality is a series of stickers.

Lakeside: Parade, 10:30 a.m., from Perry Park. Food and entertainment. Fireworks, dusk, at Perry Park.

Ila Mae Eychas of Saginaw, Mich., announces the engagement and forthcoming marriage of her daughter, Crista Hernandez, son of Alex Vasquez Jr., son of Neil and Kim Williams, Sherwood, and Alajando... Read ...

Trinity Lutheran Church in Wauseon is regrouping after a fire broke out in the sanctuary.

An annual water quality report sent to city residents is generally a routine matter for Defiance officials, but last year's recap indicates some positive water plant changes.

When a support beam in a bridge on Oakwood Avenue in Napoleon failed recently, area officials quickly moved to reduce the load limit on the crossing to ensure the safety of traffic.

Dustiny Dominique and Charles Blue, Bryan, a daughter, 8 lbs. 4 oz. at 9:28 a.m. Friday -- Autumn Sleesman and Jorge Valdez Jr., Napoleon, a daughter, 6 lbs.

A Napoleon, Ohio, man was killed late Sunday when the motorcycle he was operating crashed on West Lynn Street in this Williams County community, authorities said.