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Ful­ton county com­mis­sion­ers are con­sid­er­ing devel­op­ment of their own waste­water treat­ment plant. The pro­posed new facil­ity would treat 600,000 gal­lons of waste­water a day. Although the plant would treat other liq­uids, it would also tar­get leachate from the old Ful­ton County Land­fill. The land­fill has been closed since 1981, yet …

From Tues­day, April 30 through Sun­day, May 5, guests from across the coun­try will gather in Arch­bold for the 37th annual Quilt Show at Sauder Vil­lage. Again this year, the tal­ents of quil­ters from through­out the Mid­west will be cel­e­brated with a dis­play of more than 400 quilts, unique quilt­ing …

Williams County Sher­iff Steve Towns has released a pre­lim­i­nary sum­mary of activ­ity for the Sheriff’s Office for the first quar­ter of 2013. So far this year, his office has han­dled 862 calls for ser­vice includ­ing: 87 crashes, 42 Domes­tics, 36 Fraud cases, 22 Tele­phone Harass­ments, 29 Traf­fic Com­plaints, 20 Thefts, …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Depart­ment is warn­ing peo­ple clean­ing up ditches and other areas this spring to be very care­ful to not come in con­tact with any plas­tic bot­tles that may be part of a meth lab. They Sher­iff says these bot­tles could pos­si­bly have a pow­der residue inside, have …

Pub­lished reports this morn­ing say that Diver­si­fied Machine in Edon is clos­ing it’s doors for good. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, employ­ees of the Edon plant were told that due to eco­nomic con­di­tions the com­pany is clos­ing the plant in Feb­ru­ary 2014. The first jobs elim­i­nated will be in July, …

The search is on at the Cen­tral Local Board of Edu­ca­tion. Ear­lier this week, the board met and announced that the inter­view­ing process has begun for can­di­dates to take over David Bagley’s spot as dis­trict super­in­ten­dent. Bagley will retire as school super­in­ten­dent this sum­mer. No one would spec­u­late on how …

A Spe­cial Meet­ing of the Board of Edu­ca­tion of the Bryan City School Dis­trict is planned for Tues­day, April 30th at the Bryan Mid­dle School Com­mons. The meet­ing will begin at 7:00 p.m., and is being sched­uled for the pur­pose of hold­ing a pub­lic dis­cus­sion relat­ing to school dis­trict facil­ity …

Solar Elec­tric Power Asso­ci­a­tion on Tues­day announced that Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties has been ranked on the association’s annual Top 10 list of Amer­i­can elec­tric util­i­ties that have added the most new solar power to their sys­tems and the most solar on a watts-per-customer basis in 2012. Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties broke …

Bryan Police made a drug arrest on Tues­day. 44 year old Johnny E. Cramer of Cherry Street in Bryan was arrested for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana and pos­ses­sion of drug para­pher­na­lia. Bryan Police say Cramer was picked up just before 5pm yes­ter­day after­noon. The offi­cial Bryan Police report doesn’t indi­cate if …

For­mer Bryan City Coun­cil Pres­i­dent Mark Kelly was among those indicted Tues­day by a Williams County grand jury. Kelly was charged with felony theft. Accord­ing to the indict­ment, Kelly is accused of steal­ing money from the soci­ety from Novem­ber of 2009, to last August. Ini­tial indi­ca­tions place the amount of …