A spe­cial meet­ing of the Wayne Trace Local Board of Edu­ca­tion was held Mon­day morn­ing and a new three-year con­tact for teach­ers, along with drug test­ing for high school students/athletes was approved. The teach­ers will be get­ting a 2.25 per­cent raise each year for the next three years. The drug …

A light­ning bolt struck a Ful­ton County home Tues­day morn­ing. Fire­fight­ers were called out early yes­ter­day morn­ing just before 4a.m. to the home of Michael and Kath­leen Fis­cher on County Road S in Amboy Town­ship after light­ning struck the home. Fire dam­aged the back side of the house and dam­age …

Inde­pen­dence Day is this Fri­day, and that means many busi­nesses and offices will be closed for the day. In Bryan, all city offices will be closed to observe the hol­i­day. Also, all state and fed­eral offices will be closed that day as well. Garbage pickup in Bryan will how­ever, take …

In Steuben County, a lot of local char­i­ties will soon reap some finan­cial ben­e­fits. The estate of Burl and Mary Jane Hall has des­ig­nated over $676,000 to char­i­ta­ble enti­ties in their wills, includ­ing the Steuben County Com­mu­nity Foun­da­tion, Trine Uni­ver­sity, the First Con­gre­ga­tional Church of Angola, the Steuben County Humane …

The Rich­land Place/PATH Cen­ter in Defi­ance plans to dis­trib­ute USDA food com­modi­ties today from 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. Indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies that meet income eli­gi­bil­ity resid­ing in Defi­ance, Tinora or Ayersville school dis­tricts are wel­come to stop by and get some items. The dis­tri­b­u­tion list includes canned apple­sauce, canned pota­toes, …

Victor C. Ramus, 90 years, of Sherwood, passed away Monday, June 30, 2014 at St. Anne’s Retirement Community, Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Victor was born November 17, 1923 in Jewell, Ohio, the son of the late Edward C. and Helen (Steinberger) Ramus.  He was a 1941 graduate of Jewell High School.  An Army veteran …

Victor R. Collie, 97, of Montpelier passed away Monday morning at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home in Montpelier. He was born on January 21, 1917 in Bridgewater Township to Emerson and Bertha A. (Johnston) Collie. Victor served his country in the Army Medical Corp. during World War II. On July 13, …

A Put­nam County man is dead, and author­i­ties now say he drowned. The Put­nam County coro­ner con­firmed on Mon­day, that the cause of 59 year old Don­ald Burgei’s death was drown­ing. Burgei, of Ottoville, was swim­ming at a pond at this home on Put­nam County Road P in Mon­terey Town­ship, …

The Rich­land Place/PATH Cen­ter in Defi­ance plans to dis­trib­ute USDA food com­modi­ties tomor­row [WEDNESDAY] from 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. Indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies that meet income eli­gi­bil­ity resid­ing in Defi­ance, Tinora or Ayersville school dis­tricts are wel­come to stop by and get some items. The dis­tri­b­u­tion list includes canned apple­sauce, canned …

They have rules in Arch­bold, and appar­ently, you bet­ter now break them. Arch­bold police tick­eted a dis­abled man for dri­ving his mobil­ity scooter on a side­walk. Now, that man, 53 year old Mark Miller, says he plans to fight it. Miller, who with­out his scooter is stuck at home, says …