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Defiance school officials will see around 3 percent increases in pay. The city Board of Education made it official this week.

Three New Haven schools lost power Tuesday morning…the district allowed parents to pick up students. 3,300 customers were without electricity in and the city. The outage was caused by a squirrel, not the weather.

Several fires in the area are being blamed on lightning. The Southwest Fire District assisted Aboite Township crews fighting three fires within 40 minutes. One blaze was reported at a home inside the Chestnut Hills neighborhood…it sustained minor damage. Then, a barn caught fire on Bass Road. With 7,000 bales …

Williams County deputies want to know more about a white Chevrolet Tahoe spotted Monday evening on County Road M, near County Road 22, north of West Unity near the Ohio Turnpike. The driver fled from deputies as they attempted to pull him over for speeding. Anyone with information is asked …

Bard Manufacturing in Bryan announces the addition of a high-tech, multi-million-dollar facility. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held soon. The James R. Bard Center for HVAC Innovation & Design, a 15,000-square-foot addition to the company’s engineering area, will provide facilities for a new gas vapor test lab, capable of testing …

The Montpelier Municipal Pool will remain open in 2018. Kevin Brooks, village administrator, told village council he has met with members of the park board and they had decided to keep the facility running next year. Brooks added there may be some funding to make repairs to the clubhouse at …

A Defiance woman is sentenced after taking funds from her job. Katie Olea appeared for grand theft. She was placed on community control for four years and ordered to make $70,172 in restitution to the victim. She is also to have no contact with the Defiance business, Cashland. Olea was …

A Defiance man, who caused a fire at a Northside rental home last year, is sentenced. Jerry Kilpatrick was placed on community control for five years and ordered to pay $2,235.36 on a charge of aggravated arson. Prosecutors say Kilpatrick set fire to a home on Gibson St…it was gutted …

Residents in Melbern and Orchard Hills lost power Monday for a time after a single power line broke. The Bryan Fire Department extinguished the blaze, on County Road C at County Road 9. The county highway department deployed barricades to control traffic. 315 Toledo Edison customers lost power for about …

A Bryan woman is sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a $10,750 fine for a phone scam. Tammi Buchs was indicted in October 2016 on 25 felony counts related to facilitating scams. Buchs participated in three, all in 2015. In the first, she received thousands of …