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A deci­sion on whether to pro­ceed fur­ther with the pro­posed ren­o­va­tion of the Defi­ance County Cour­t­house was delayed Mon­day, but a deci­sion could be com­ing by Thurs­day. A seven-member com­mit­tee on Mon­day dis­cussed the lat­est plans with the project archi­tect. Some com­mit­tee mem­bers asked more time to review the recent …

Dis­cus­sion about the costs involved in the con­struc­tion of a new water treat­ment plant took place at this week’s meet­ing of the Napoleon City Coun­cil. The mayor was unhappy with fig­ures that were pre­sented to coun­cil a year ago regard­ing the esti­mated cost of con­struct­ing a new water treat­ment plant …

It was a busy Mon­day for Bryan fire­fight­ers. First, just after 7:30am, they rushed to a call con­cern­ing oil con­t­a­m­i­na­tion at the con­flu­ence of Lynn Run, Pigeon Run and Ditch 40 Mon­day morn­ing. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, oil got into the storm sewer and then spilled out into the …

Bryan now has a new drug law on the books, and city offi­cials say they are plan­ning to strictly enforce it in an effort to keep drugs out of the city. On Mon­day, Bryan City Coun­cil approved an ordi­nance ban­ning the man­u­fac­ture, sale, dis­tri­b­u­tion and pos­ses­sion of syn­thetic drugs and …

The Edger­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil met Mon­day and an offi­cial from the state auditor’s office addressed them, con­firm­ing that the vil­lage does meet the cri­te­ria for fis­cal emer­gency. The state offi­cial told coun­cil, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, that when this hap­pens, there is often fear of the state tak­ing full …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion (ODOT) and Vil­lage of Delta are mak­ing cross­ing the street eas­ier for pedes­tri­ans. A new traf­fic safety device, called a pedes­trian hybrid bea­con (PHB), is being installed at the inter­sec­tion of Main Street (U.S. Route 20A) and Wood Street in down­town Delta. They say that …

The trial late this month of a woman accused of com­mit­ting a mur­der almost 10 years ago now appears likely. 46 year old Judith Hawkey of Oak­wood is fac­ing charges of aggra­vated mur­der; four counts of endan­ger­ing chil­dren; and insur­ance fraud. Hawkey is accused of mak­ing her then 10-year-old step­son …

On Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 12, the com­mu­nity is invited to “It’s a Fiesta” at North­west State. The free event will include music, food, enter­tain­ment and more in cel­e­bra­tion of His­panic Aware­ness Month at NSCC. More infor­ma­tion on the event can be found at Northwest’s web­site. NSCC’s Board of Trustees met Fri­day …

A man was hurt over the week­end in Bryan and now police are try­ing to fig­ure out just who he is. Ohio offi­cials are try­ing to find the iden­tity of the man after he was injured in a crash in Bryan on Sat­ur­day evening. The acci­dent occurred just after 6 …

Two new prin­ci­pals have been hired by Napoleon’s two parochial schools this year. David Kumm replaced Steven Wentzel as prin­ci­pal at St. Paul Lutheran School, and Jim George has taken over for Nancy Schroeder at St. Augus­tine Catholic School. As prin­ci­pal at St. Paul, Kumm now is in charge of …