Edger­ton res­i­dents will be asked to approve a 3/4 per­cent income tax increase in the Novem­ber elec­tion. The Edger­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil approved the bal­lot issue at Monday’s meer­ing. Edger­ton res­i­dents cur­rently pay a 1 per­cent income tax.

A kinder­garten teacher has been charged with child endan­ger­ment after she was caught on cam­era appar­ently push­ing one of her stu­dents up against a wall and grab­bing his face and shirt. Pros­e­cu­tors filed a mis­de­meanor charge yes­ter­day against Bar­bara Williams, a teacher at Riverdale Local Schools. Williams had already been …

Ren­o­va­tions are under­way at the Defi­ance pub­lic library. Cur­rently crews are work­ing on the lower level of the build­ing, where the new children’s library will be located. Library offi­cials say the work being com­pleted now is just part of a larger ren­o­va­tion project that has been five years in the …

Goodyear is start­ing to explore where to locate a new $500 mil­lion tire plant that it hopes to open within three years. Goodyear says it intends to con­struct a state-of-the-art fac­tory that would make about 6 mil­lion tires a year. The tire maker says its search is wide open, and …

The Bryan High School class of 2014 have received their diplo­mas. 150 seniors took part in the school’s 136th annual grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mony Sun­day after­noon at Golden Bear Sta­dium. Bryan City Schools Super­in­ten­dent Diana Sav­age pre­sented the Ohio Hon­ors Diploma recip­i­ents, Coun­selor Kim Bas­sett announced the Top Ten Per­cent stu­dents and …

Schol­ar­ships were announced and awards were given out for out­stand­ing stu­dents and GPAs at the recent 22nd Annual Aca­d­e­mic Awards Ban­quet at Hill­top High School. The guest speaker was Dr. Shea Walkup, a 1995 Hill­top grad­u­ate. He cur­rently is a den­tist with the Bryan Den­tal Group.

The Mov­ing Wall-Vietnam Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial will be on dis­play in Defi­ance next month to com­mem­o­rate the 50th anniver­sary of the start of the Viet­nam War. The wall will be escorted into town on the morn­ing of June 12th by a pro­ces­sion of motor­cy­cles and will be erected on Web­ster Street …

Con­struc­tion at the site of the new Napoleon Ele­men­tary School is ramp­ing up as the school year comes to a close. The new school on West­morelnd Avenue is expected to be fin­ished for the start of the 2015-’16 school year. A new junior high wing is also being added to …

Betty Josephine (Lambert) Schrepferman, 93 years, of Hamilton, passed away Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at Cameron Memorial Community Hospital, Angola. Betty was born January 11, 1921 in Howard County, Indiana, the daughter of the late Orion “Ora” Preble and Flora Alice (Flynt) Lambert.  She was raised on a farm near Kokomo, …

Eva A. Michael, 82 years, of Bryan, passed away Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at her home, with her family at her side.  She was under the care of Community Health Professionals Hospice.  Eva was born February 20, 1932 in Fulton County, Ohio, the daughter of the late Ensign P. and Mildred M. …