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Rover Concerns To Be Addressed

Some peo­ple who are con­cerned about the pro­posed Rover Pipeline project through north­west Ohio, are plan­ning a meet­ing for next week in Defi­ance. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, the ETRover com­mu­nity action meet­ing is sched­uled for Thurs­day, August 27th, from 6–8 p.m at ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal. Those orga­niz­ing the …

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K-9 Hammer Passes

The Williams County Sheriff’s Depart­ment says K-9 Offi­cer Ham­mer passed away after a short bat­tle with can­cer on Tues­day. Ham­mer was 12 years old. K-9 Ham­mer was a Dutch Shep­herd. He started his career with the Sheriff’s Office in August of 2004 and was trained in patrol, nar­cotics detec­tion and …

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Fayette Man Killed In Fulton Crash

A man died in a two vehi­cle crash Wednes­day morn­ing in Ful­ton County. 35 year old Michael Neuen­schwan­der of Fayette was pro­nounced dead at the scene of the crash that hap­pened just after 5 yes­ter­day morn­ing on U.S. 20 and County Road 23. Police say Neuen­schwan­der was east­bound on U.S. …

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Highway Plans Outlined

The Conexus Indi­ana North­east Regional Logis­tics Coun­cil has revealed it’s plan for infra­struc­ture invest­ment over the next 30 years. Among the high­way project pri­or­i­ties… redesign­ing the Toll Road inter­change with I-69 in Steuben County in order to improve traf­fic flow. They also say the widen­ing of U.S. 33 to four …

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State Chamber Fighting Legal Pot

Cit­ing wor­ries over work­place safety, the Ohio Cham­ber of Com­merce on Wednes­day said that it will “strongly oppose” an effort to legal­ize mar­i­juana and will con­tribute $100,000 toward the effort to defeat it at the polls. The announce­ment comes after cham­ber mem­bers expressed their con­cerns about poten­tial acci­dents on the …

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Tie Vote In Hicksville Mayoral Matter

A tie vote by Defi­ance County’s board of elec­tions on the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of a Hicksville may­oral can­di­date will now send the mat­ter on up to a higher author­ity. The board voted 2–2 in decid­ing whether David Schoo­ley should be cer­ti­fied as a Demo­c­ra­tic can­di­date in Novem­ber for the Hicksville mayor’s …

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West Nile Surfaces In Williams County

The Ohio Depart­ment of Health con­firmed on Wednes­day that the state’s first fatal West Nile virus human case took place in Williams County. A 91-year-old Williams County man, whose name has not been released, was hos­pi­tal­ized with encephali­tis. So far this year, there have been eight reported human cases of …

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Bryan Municipal Utilities Slated For More Secure Structure

On Tues­day, the Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs approved the hir­ing of a com­pany to com­plete archi­tec­tural and engi­neer­ing ser­vices for a new data cen­ter for Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties on East Edger­ton Street. The con­cern is over whether the util­i­ties should have a more secure struc­ture that can with­stand harsh …

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Home Destroyed By Flames

Flames early Mon­day morn­ing destroyed a home and a garage in But­ler. For­tu­nately, fire­fight­ers were able to save the house next door. The first call came in just before 3am Mon­day for the fire at 324 West Main Street in But­ler. Fire­fight­ers from But­ler, Edger­ton, Angola, Auburn, Water­loo, Spencerville, and …

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Lots Of Crime In Bryan Keeping Police Very Busy

The past 24 hours or so have kept Bryan Police on their toes. Last evening just before 6pm, Bryan PDarrested 26 year old Sally Schang of Kun­kle for Receiv­ing Stolen Prop­erty. Then at 8:00PM, 31 year old Don­ald Pursel III of Bryan was arrested for two counts of Theft. Last …

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