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The Bryan Kiwa­nis Club is look­ing for­ward to its 46th annual Fourth of July Fly-In Break­fast at the Williams County Air­port. It’s being held Thurs­day, July 4th with serv­ing from 7am until 11am. On the menu… cof­fee, juice, pan­cakes, ham and scram­bled eggs. The Kiwa­nis Club’s pop­corn trailer will be …

The Inde­pen­dence Day hol­i­day is day after tomor­row and many area busi­nesses and ser­vices are adjust­ing their hours. City, county, state and fed­eral offices all will be closed Thurs­day. How­ever, Bryan’s reg­u­lar trash pickup will be done as sched­uled. The Bryan Post office win­dow will be closed and there will …

The Arch­bold vil­lage coun­cil on Mon­day accepted the res­ig­na­tion of one vil­lage worker and began a search for his replace­ment. Jamie Rodriquez ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion after serv­ing for almost 20 years as an Arch­bold Police Offi­cer. Rodriguez told coun­cil that health prob­lems no longer allowed him to ful­fill his duties. …

Fire and water were dis­cussed at the Hicksville Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing Mon­day. Coun­cil mem­bers got an update on the vil­lage flood­ing sit­u­a­tion. Coun­cil dis­cussed a June 28 let­ter from the Ohio EPA fol­low­ing a com­pli­ance inspec­tion of the village’s waste water treat­ment plant. The EPA let­ter sug­gests Hicksville is still …

A cou­ple of arrests were made this week by Bryan Police. On Wednes­day after­noon, 23 year old Chad Hale of Mont­pe­lier was picked up by Bryan Police for crim­i­nal tres­pass. Hale was released. Also on Wednes­day, at just after 7pm, 24 year old Cameron Con­rad of Mont­pe­lier was arrested for …

The Spe­cial Response Team at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio in Stryker recently did a tac­ti­cal assess­ment of the cam­pus at North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege in Arch­bold. The jail’s tac­ti­cal unit, which is more like a SWAT team, spe­cial­izes in crowd con­trol, hostage nego­ti­a­tions and use of force. CCNO …

There’s a new prinic­pal at Antwerp Local Schools. On Thurs­day, the district’s board of edu­ca­tion approved a three year con­tract for Pauld­ing High School grad­u­ate and cur­rent mid­dle school sci­ence teacher at Cen­tral Local Schools, Tim Manz. Manz has an under­grad­u­ate degree from Defi­ance Col­lege and master’s degree from Bowl­ing …

A ten­ta­tive set­tle­ment has been apparet­ntly reached on the emi­nent domain peti­tion filed last fall in Henry County Com­mon Pleas Court by Napoleon Area Schools Board of Edu­ca­tion. The peti­tion involved 56.266 acres located off West­more­land Street in Napoleon across from the high school stu­dent park­ing lot. Details of the …

Seems peo­ple in our area were more giv­ing last year. Reports say that char­i­ta­ble giv­ing is on the rebound nation­ally and right here locally. Accord­ing to an annual report by the Giv­ing USA Foun­da­tion and Indi­ana University’s Lilly Fam­ily School of Phil­an­thropy, char­i­ta­ble dona­tions nation­ally were up 3.5 per­cent in …

CCNO’s pop­u­la­tion was slightly down. That news high­lighted Wednesday’s meet­ing of the Cor­rec­tions Com­mis­sion of North­west Ohio. CCNO Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Jim Den­nis said Wednesday’s inmate pop­u­la­tion stood at 570 or 89 per­cent. The pop­u­la­tion aver­aged 583 or 91 per­cent in April and stood at 593 or 93 per­cent in May. …