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Local Companies Recognized

Women in Transportation’s official magazine, Redefining the Road, releases the 2019 list of Top Companies for Women to Work For in the transportation industry. Both Keller Logistics Group and affiliate, Thomas E. Keller Trucking, made this year’s list. More than 150 nominations and nearly 11,000 votes identified the 86 companies …

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Boo To You

With Halloween this Thursday, various “Trick or Treat” celebrations are going on this week, as area communities get ready for ghosts and other goolish visitors. Bryan will have a trunk or treat on Thursday, from 6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. on the west side of the square in downtown. The …

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Montpelier Mulls Budget

The Montpelier Council gave a first reading to the village’s $18 million dollar 2020 appropriations budget. Officials told the panel the village historically overestimates its expenses and underestimates its revenues, and expects the final 2020 numbers to show the village in the black, similar to this year. They added, this …

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Horse Dies In Recovery

A horse we reported, seized from a LaGrange County property with a history of animal abuse concerns, dies from its wounds in foster care. Back on Wednesday, deputies and the State Board of Animal Health served a search warrant at Larry Myers’ property. Several animals were found to be in …

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Halloween Candy Scare

Police in Van Wert are warning residents to check their children’s Halloween candy after a woman reportedly found a needle in a treat. She told officers her children collected the candy somewhere on Jefferson Street, 2nd Street or 3rd Street. It’s unknown if the department has a suspect in the …

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Governor Wants Parole Review

Gov. DeWine orders a review of the state parole system, following the involvement of a recently released offender in a crash that killed two 6-year-old-cousins. Raymond Walters has pled not guilty by reason of insanity to 22 charges, including murder in the August crash. Police say Walters’ father was taking …

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Injury Crash On CR 16

One person is taken to the hospital after an SUV hits a school bus on County Road 16. None of the 7 kids onboard were hurt. Investigators say one car was southbound on 16. The driver didn’t yield at a stop sign at the intersection of 16 and D…the car …

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Big Test Coming Up

Williams County utility officials, workers and first responders are setting up a massive test scenario, to be ready if a chemical related emergency arises. Bryan Municipal Utilities will host an emergency preparedness drill, involving the simulated release of an industrial chemical at the Bryan Water Treatment Plant on Tuesday. Utility …

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Water Meeting In WC

The Ohio, Michigan, Indiana Council of Governments meet in Williams County, in its first public meeting as a body since forming earlier this year. The council is the result of local efforts to band together governmental bodies from the nine counties in three states that draw water from the aquifer. …

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A New Employer For The Area

A Canadian steel distributor buys land in Fulton County. Nova Tube and Steel LLC paid $767,900 for property on County Road H, in rural Delta, near a short line railroad. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, the steel processor has nine locations in Canada, the United States, and Mexico…and services the automotive, …

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