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Start­ing next month, the Ohio Ben­e­fit Bank offers free tax fil­ing ses­sions at the Bryan Library. These ses­sions run most Thurs­days from Feb. 5 to Apr. 9. They run from 10 to 5. If your indi­vid­ual income sits below $65,000, then you could qual­ify for free tax filing.

The Bryan Area Foun­da­tion holds an open house next Thurs­day at its new office. The event runs from 4 to 6 at the new loca­tion on South Wal­nut Street.

The Millcreek-West Unity School Board has cho­sen Sarah Carothers as pres­i­dent for another year. The board has named Brian Wieland vice pres­i­dent and leg­isla­tive liaison.

This year’s Pride of Williams County Pageant takes place Sunday. The Bryan Arts and Edu­ca­tion Build­ing hosts the com­pe­ti­tion, which begins at 6 o’clock. This year’s event has 22 con­tes­tants for Miss, Teen Miss, Junior Miss, and Lit­tle Miss Williams County.

A Hol­gate man died yes­ter­day after two trains hit him. Author­i­ties say 63-year-old James Junge drove his pickup around a rail­road cross­ing gate. Sheriff’s deputies say Junge went around the gate while south­bound on North Keyser Street. Deputies claim he drove in front of an east­bound CSX train that headed …

Defi­ance County com­mis­sion­ers Mon­day elected Tom Kime chairman. They made Ryan Mack the vice chairman. Mean­while, engi­neer War­ren Schalt­ter informed com­mis­sion­ers that the accu­mu­lated rev­enue report for the year that just ended totaled nearly $4.3 mil­lion. That marked the high­est total since 2006.

Williams County’s com­mis­sion­ers begin their meet­ing tomor­row morn­ing at 8:30 on the fourth floor of the courthouse. The meet­ing includes an update from the Williams County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion, as well as one from Fron­tier regard­ing EMS. Defi­ance County’s com­mis­sion­ers also meet tomor­row morn­ing at 8:30. This meet­ing includes dis­cus­sion …

Williams County’s audi­tor says real estate tax bills should arrive in the mail any day now. Deb Nester says prop­erty own­ers can use a pair of tax sav­ing pro­grams through her office. Peo­ple 65 and older can par­tic­i­pate in the Home­stead Exemp­tion Pro­gram. This pro­gram also wel­comes per­ma­nently dis­abled peo­ple, …

The phone ser­vice provider for Hill­side Coun­try Liv­ing has given a rea­son why the facil­ity has had phone issues over the last year. Notes in a Fron­tier Com­mu­ni­ca­tions repair ticket blames the prob­lems on “fly­ing squirrels.” Regional gen­eral man­ager Dick Hutchin­son claims squir­rels and mice often cause tech­ni­cal difficulties. Hill­side …

The high­way patrol has a new com­man­der at the Van Wert post. The patrol has pro­moted Sgt. Tim­o­thy Grigsby to lieu­tenant as part of his transfer. Grigsby has spent most of the last nine years at the post in Lima. He did spend a year at the Van Wert post …