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Defi­ance City Coun­cil, at their meet­ing on Tues­day night, approved an addi­tional con­tract for an east­side project which will also make drainage improve­ments related to the city’s long-term sewer con­trol plan. Accord­ing to the ordi­nance approved Tues­day, the city will con­tract with the engi­neer­ing firm Burgess and Niple, Inc. at …

The Williams County Fair board recently drew crit­i­cism from a national orga­ni­za­tion. PETA (Peo­ple for the Eth­i­cal Treat­ment of Ani­mals) sent out let­ters as well as started a Face­book cam­paign ask­ing the fair board to can­cel ele­phant rides at the fair, claim­ing that Nosey the ele­phant has been mis­treated. Accord­ing …

There could be some money com­ing to one area vil­lage… lit­er­ally! Con­ti­nen­tal Vil­lage Coun­cil on Tues­day night learned of the pos­si­bil­ity of a new bank open­ing up shop in town. An offi­cial at the Fort Jen­nings State Bank says the bank is seri­ously con­sid­er­ing open­ing up a new branch bank …

On Tues­day after­noon around 3:30, Bryan Police arrested 29 year old Kurt Andrews of Bryan on a bench war­rant from Bryan Munic­i­pal Court that the Williams County Sheriff’s Depart­ment held. Andrews was turned over to the sheriff’s depart­ment and then taken to CCNO.

The Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion has released grades for Ohio’s Career Tech­ni­cal Schools and the news was good news for Four County Career Cen­ter. The Bryan Times reports that Four County Career Cen­ter, serv­ing 22 asso­ciate schools in the four-county area, was one of only eight career tech­ni­cal schools in …

The Edger­ton Board of Edu­ca­tion held their monthly meet­ing Tues­day evening. The board kicked off last night’s meet­ing with a tour of the old mid­dle school build­ing. Super­in­ten­dent Andy Morr showed the board the lat­est improve­ments, includ­ing a coat of paint, new floor­ing in place of old car­pet and a …

In the Edon School Dis­trict, the board there dis­cussed the dif­fi­culty of trans­port­ing some stu­dents to and from school at Tuesday’s school board meet­ing. The Edon North­west Local Board of Edu­ca­tion approved a res­o­lu­tion to declare trans­porta­tion imprac­ti­cal for cer­tain iden­ti­fied stu­dents at last night’s board meet­ing. The Bryan Times …

The Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage Exempted Schools Board of Edu­ca­tion on Tues­day learned that the school has been awarded a $9,000 grant for two fac­ulty mem­bers to attend a lead­er­ship acad­emy in Colum­bus. In other busi­ness, the school board accepted over $8,000 in dona­tions — includ­ing $6,000 from the ath­letic boost­ers to …

The Defi­ance County Regional Air­port Author­ity will soon be handed more than $300,000 fed­eral funds to com­plete improve­ments. It was announced on Mon­day that the Fed­eral Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion has awarded $344,781 to the Defi­ance Air­port Author­ity and the Defi­ance County com­mis­sion­ers. The funds will be used to install a new …

An Edger­ton man was still listed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion Mon­day after he was involved in a motor­cy­cle acci­dent on Sat­ur­day. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office says Sat­ur­day around 1PM, 53 year old Thomas Brodock was dri­ving a motor­cy­cle on Indi­ana 120 near Clear Lake, when he ran off the road­way …