Some of the local recipients include $10,000 to Buckland Fire Department and $10,000 to the Cridersville Fire Department in Auglaize County. Columbus Grove Fire Department got $10,000, Continental Fire Department got $5,500, Glandorf Fire Department received $6,808.55, Miller City Fire Department $3,886.91, and Ottoville Fire Department got $10,000 in Putnam County.

A Defiance man was injured after the tanker truck he was driving, hauling milk, overturned in Putnam County early Thursday morning. 39-year-old Joshua Palczewski is recovering at defiance regional hospital. Putnam County sheriff's deputies say he was heading south on Road 18 south of Road B at around 4 this morning when he went off the ride side of the road. The tanker rolled over, ending up on its side, with milk leaking out along with some fluids from the truck.