Jeff Strausbaugh News Today

Defiance County commissioners opened bids on renovations to the new county children’s home on Evansport Road during their Monday meeting. Commissioners also met with Bruce Clevenger and Teresa Johnson of the OSU Extension Office for their quarterly update (see related story page A2). The lowest bid was received from The Dotson Company, Whitehouse, at $276,680. This was well below the estimate ($343,226) provided by the project architect, Beilharz Architects Inc., Defiance. Six other compan...