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Archbold Area Natives Share California Fire Experiences
by David Pugh Buckeye Staff Writer
      As wildfires raged in California, people with connections to Archbold were impacted, some minimally, some greatly. The first fires began Sunday, Oct. 21, and were fanned by the roaring Santa Ana winds that raced across the mountains at speeds approaching 100 miles per hour.
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No Changes In Polling Places For Fall Election
      Voting places across Ohio will open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. for the Tuesday, Nov. 6 fall General Election. Ballots throughout the county include races for village mayors, council, school boards, township trustees, and township fiscal officers.
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Replacement Fire Dept. Levy Needed To Face Rising Costs
      Faced with the rising cost of firefighting equipment to protect Archbold Fire Department's firefighters, citizens, and property, Andy Brodbeck, Archbold Fire Department chief, said the German Township Trustees are seeking a replacement fire levy.
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Pettisville Boys Cross Country Wins Regional, Makes History
      The Pettisville boys cross country team won its first regional championship in school history, Saturday, Oct. 27. The last time the PHS boys team advanced to the state meet was in 1981; that year they finished fourth at the regional and eighth at state. The 2007 Blackbird boys team runs for a Div....
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Pumpkin Path Crowd Exceeds Last Year
      The Archbold Parks & Recreation Department's Pumpkin Path event, Saturday, Oct. 27 attracted another large crowd, said Jennifer Kidder, Parks & Rec director. Inclement weather forced the event inside, but the line to get into the Archbold Pavilion stretched through much of Ruihley Park to the Arch...
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School Board Calls Special Meeting Thurs.
      The Archbold Area School Board has called a special meeting for Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7:30 a.m. in the Archbold High School lecture hall. It will be a meeting preparing for, conducting, or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with public employees, and other business which the board consid...
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Problems that have existed at the Fulton County Airport for years, even decades, are being resolved, said Joe Short, Fulton County commissioner. Speaking to the Archbold Area Chamber of Commerce Monday, Oct. 22, Short said he had promised to resolve three problems at the airport that had existed ... More...
Diane Freeman, age 60, of Ridgeville Corners, passed away on Monday, Oct. 29, 2007 at the Defiance Inpatient Hospice Center, Defiance. She was born July 21, 1947 in Napoleon to the late Edgar E. and Marie C. (Kruse) Plassman. She married Robert T. Freeman on June 7, 1975, and he survives. More...
Oct. 21 9:23 am: A pickup truck, driven by Jonathon G. Whithall, 19, rural Metamora, was traveling north on S. Defiance Street, 186 feet north of E. Lugbill Rd. A second pickup, driven by Carl A. Perkins, 44, Archbold, was traveling north on S. Defi- ance St., and was turning right into a privat... More...
Fulton County's September unemployment was 5.5%, estimated by Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. It was up a tenth (.1) of a percentage point from the August unemployment of 5.4%, but 1.7 percentage points below the July figure of 7.2%. More...
Thespians from the Archbold area are taking to the stage in not one, but two coming area productions. More...
Tom Wagner, Pettisville cross country coach, asked his team to run their best at the Division III regional meet, Saturday, Oct. 27, so they might have a chance to be one of the four teams that would advance to state competition. More...
After more than a year of fruitless negotiation, a contract was reached between the Northwest State Community College board of trustees and the education association. Interestingly, it was resolved within 33 days after Betty Young, former president, departed the tax-funded state community college... More...
Archbold Evan. Mennonite Sunday morning: Vicki Gramling, prelude; You Are My Life, choral offertory; message, Psalm 88, by Stuart Rex, associate pastor. Second service: Praiselude, worship through singing and offertory led by Worship Team; message same as first service. More...

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