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A two car crash resulted in injures to an Ohio State High­way Patrol trooper Sun­day after­noon. The High­way Patrol reports that it hap­pened on State Route 576 at County Road R just after 3:00 PM yes­ter­day. 25 year old Nathan Rios of Angola was west­bound on County Road R when …

A Mont­pe­lier gas sta­tion was robbed Wednes­day night and police are look­ing for the man who did it. Mont­pe­lier Police say a white male entered the Valero Main Stop just past 10pm on Wednes­day, grabbed a sta­tion employee and made off with cash and three car­tons of cig­a­rettes. Accord­ing to …

Stryker’s annual home­com­ing cel­e­bra­tion is this week­end. It starts tomor­row with break­fast by the Boy Scouts at St. John Lutheran Church between 6 and 10am. That will be fol­lowed by a fun run, a parade, a cruise-in, a bas­ket­ball tour­na­ment, a car wash, golf chip­ping game, arm wrestling, corn­hole, and …

The vil­lage hall tor­nado siren in Hol­i­day City is oper­a­tional again after being out of ser­vice for about a year. Over time, Mohr Elec­tron­ics has replaced all the com­po­nents of the siren. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the cost to get it back in work­ing order, includ­ing parts and labor, …

That boil advi­sory for the vil­lage of Pauld­ing has now been lifted. The vil­lage util­i­ties depart­ment reports that water in the dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem has been tested and is safe to use for drink­ing and cook­ing with­out hav­ing to boil it any longer. Pauld­ing had been under a boil advi­sory after …

Dis­patch ser­vices was the big topic of con­ver­sa­tion Wednes­day evening dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing of the Napoleon City Coun­cil. The mayor told coun­cil that he esti­mates the city could save between a half and three quar­ters of a mil­lion dol­lars over a four year period if it were to con­tract …

The Mont­pe­lier Water Depart­ment will begin the annual fire hydrant flush­ing and flow-testing pro­gram on Mon­day, August 19th. It’s expected to be com­pleted on or before Wednes­day, August 28th. Dur­ing the week of flush­ing and test­ing, Vil­lage water cus­tomers may notice some dis­col­oration in their water. The Vil­lage says that’s …

Thomas J. Knapp was sen­tenced Wednes­day in Williams County Court to the rec­om­mended 4 years in prison for his involve­ment in the injuries to a young child. Pros­e­cu­tors said that on Nov. 4, 2012 an 8 month old child was left in the care of Knapp while her mother went …

A 7.45-mill, 28-year bond issue will appear on the Novem­ber 5 bal­lot, rep­re­sent­ing local funds to match state money to con­sol­i­date the district’s stu­dents at the exist­ing Bryan Mid­dle School site. The Bryan Times reports that the plan calls for build­ing a new high school for grades 6–12 east of …

A loco­mo­tive caught fire Wednes­day after­noon in Edger­ton. Williams County Com­mu­ni­ca­tions cen­tral dis­patch released a report say­ing that Edger­ton Fire Depart­ment and Nor­folk South­ern Rail­road were called to the tracks across from the Bull­dog, at 404 W Vine Street just after lunchtime yes­ter­day after­noon to put out the fire. No …