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Defi­ance dog own­ers, lis­ten up… Dog license fees will be going up next year in Defi­ance County. County com­mis­sion­ers on Mon­day approved a res­o­lu­tion increas­ing dog license fees effec­tive this Decem­ber first. The annual fee will increase from $16 to $20. Also, a $20 late fee penalty will now be …

There were a lot of dif­fer­ent items on the table for dis­cus­sion at last evening’s meet­ing of Bryan City Coun­cil. The Bryan Times reports that coun­cil heard a request from the Cham­ber of Com­merce to move the fire­works dis­play at next year’s sum­mer cel­e­bra­tion back to the park. Coun­cil has …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross of Defi­ance County will hold a blood drive today from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at Twin Rivers Care and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion on Hard­ing Street in Defi­ance. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800-RED-CROSS.

Williams County wants to occupy the East Annex build­ing by the end of 2013, but the move won’t be all that easy. The actual move, accord­ing to county offi­cials who spoke with the Bryan Times, could take sev­eral days. County offi­cials said they are con­sid­er­ing the use of a com­mand …

Almost three dozen ani­mals have been removed from Skinny Lit­tle Buddy’s Ani­mal Res­cue in Edon by law enforce­ment. The Williams County Sheriff’s Office, the county humane soci­ety and the county humane offi­cer seized the ani­mals which were said to be in “dirty liv­ing con­di­tions.“ The action by the county came …

He’s back. An inmate at the adult deten­tion cen­ter in Put­nam County that failed to return to the facil­ity after going to an AA meet­ing in Ottawa last Tues­day has turned him­self in. The Put­nam County Sheriff’s Office says 19 year old Joe Vera III returned on his own.

The grass has been grow­ing this year, not like last year when most of the area was in a drought. And green grow­ing grass means enforce­ment of the Defi­ance ordi­nances con­cern­ing high weeds and grass. An ordi­nance in Defi­ance requires grass and weeds to be below 10 inches. If you …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office reports a sin­gle vehi­cle acci­dent hap­pened on State Route 49 when the dri­ver hit a deer. Samuel Steffes of Edon was trav­el­ing north on the road when the deer jumped in front of his vehi­cle. There was no word of any injuries of dam­age. The …

The North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees met in reg­u­lar ses­sion on Fri­day. Dr. Cindy Krueger, vice pres­i­dent for aca­d­e­mics, pre­sented data from her dis­ser­ta­tion on stu­dent suc­cess. The board also Pro­moted Lau­rie Stor­rer to full-time sec­re­tary for infor­ma­tion tech­nolo­gies; Employed John Shrader as full-time systems/network admin­is­tra­tor; Approved mis­cel­la­neous …

Bryan police report a cou­ple of drug related arrests over the week­end. On Sat­ur­day night just before 9pm, Ger­ald Ross III of Bryan was picked up for pos­ses­sion of drug para­pher­na­lia. Ross was released fol­low­ing pro­cess­ing. Also on Sat­ur­day night just before 9pm, Ricky Har­ring­ton of Mont­pe­lier was arrested for …