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AquaBounty has submitted two applications to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for permits involving wastewater. AquaBounty is in the process of building a 479,000-square-foot facility to raise 10,000 metric tons of genetically modified salmon a year at the Pioneer North Industrial Park. The project would cost the aquaculture facility up …

A program to assist downtown Defiance building owners with facade improvements appears to have city council’s support.. Under the proposal, the city would make $50,000 in taxpayer funds available to downtown property owners in 2023 to improve their storefronts. The money could only be used for street-facing facades, and not …

A Stryker man dies…and seven others are hurt…in an alcohol-involved crash, late Sunday, in Putnam County. Officials tell reporters…Thomas Sproles, 36, of Stryker, was westbound on U.S. 224 in Blanchard Township…as Bradley Cherry, 51, of Ottawa is heading east on the roadway. Officials say…Sproles was waiting for Cherry to pass…so …

Bowling Green Republican…congressman Bob Latta…will be available on Wednesday…for one-on-one meetings with constituents. All this…in the hearing room at Bryan Municipal Court, on E. High St….from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Staff will also be available to assist with casework or help residents with any issues they may have with …

With the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade…protests across the nation were planned Monday, and Defiance was the scene of one of them. Some 62 people demonstrated in front of the Defiance County Courthouse. During the gathering…protesters chanted slogans such as, “my body, my choice,”…“we won’t go back,”…and …

Area officials were able to locate the body of a Grand Rapids man who fell off a boat and into the Maumee River Saturday. Deputies got a call for a possible drowning in the river, west of Henry County Road 4A in Washington Township. The victim…Alex Smith, 49, is the …

A number of Bryan businesses are targeted in a crime spree that stretched from Toledo to Defiance County. This happened early Thursday morning, officials confirm. Officers were dispatched to Wick’s Par-T-Pak on W. High St, on a burglary call. Minutes later…they responded to a report of vandalism at the neighboring …

The Pioneer Village Council has awarded bids for work on a new substation for the planned AquaBounty salmon farm. During a meeting in December, John Courtney of Courtney & Associates, in Findlay, said the substation is being built primarily to serve the new load coming in from AquaBounty, which is …

The Edon Village Council approves entering into an agreement for engineering work on the city’s the sewer plant replacement project. The village advertised a request for qualifications for engineers…only Bell Engineering responded. The cost…68 thousand dollars, officials say.

Pioneer Village Administrator Al Fiser gets a national award from the American Public Power Association. The Larry Hobart Seven Hats Award recognizes managers of small utilities serving fewer than 2,500 meters. With a small staff, these managers have to assume multiple roles…including planning and design, administration, public relations and more. …