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Sev­eral fam­i­lies are now start­ing all over after flames destroyed every­thing they owned this week near Grover Hill. Tina How­ell lived at the home on Road 155, where she said her fam­ily has been for 82 years. Her fam­ily lost every­thing in the blaze on Mon­day. How­ell, her sons, her …

In Steuben County, three spe­cial excep­tion requests that would cover new 190 foot tall tow­ers cleared the County Plan Com­mis­sion on Wednes­day. By a unan­i­mous 5 to 0 vote, the Plan Com­mis­sion approved all three requests, say­ing they would not affect the county’s mas­ter plan. Brian Don­nelly from Cen­tral States …

The body of a man from Michi­gan who had been miss­ing since this past June was dis­cov­ered in Put­nam County. The remains of 52 year old Brian Mar­tin were found near Leip­sic. Put­nam County Coro­ner Anna Horstman pro­nounced Mar­tin dead at the scene, just off County Road Y. Mar­tin went …

Nearly sixty-three days have passed since the Octo­ber Board of Trustees Meet­ing when Pro­fes­sional and Sup­port Staff mem­bers of the North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion (NSCCEA) issued a vote of ‘No Con­fi­dence’ in the Pres­i­dent and his Cab­i­net for rea­sons of a long-standing pat­tern of cen­tral­ized decision-making, lack of …

Bryan Police have nabbed a local man, wanted on a bench war­rant for fail­ure to pay taxes. On Wednes­day morn­ing, around 10:30, cops took 28 year old Chad Coff­man of South Beech Street in Bryan into cus­tody on the war­rant issued out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Coff­man is specif­i­cally charged …

At their meet­ing last evening, Assis­tant Fire Chief Jim Eisel told the Board of the West Unity Area Cham­ber of Com­merce the depart­ment is in need of $438 to pur­chase a radio head­set which would be used by the fire­fight­ers oper­at­ing the pumper dur­ing emer­gency calls. The depart­ment already has …

Police and sheriff’s deputies in Defi­ance and Henry coun­ties are get­ting ready for their annual Shop with a Cop and Deputy events. For nearly 20 years, the annual pro­gram has held the event, which pairs kids with law enforce­ment offi­cers who help them pur­chase cloth­ing. This year’s Shop with a …

Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties’ bud­get for the com­ing year will show an increase over 2014. Part of the rea­son for the increase is the num­ber of large projects planned for 2015. The 2015 bud­get is now pro­jected to be $29,997,000. That’s an increase of about $866,000 over the 2014 bud­get of …

An arrest in Bryan for dis­or­derly con­duct… Bryan Police on Tues­day evening, around 7:15, arrested 40 year old William F. John­son of N. Union St in Bryan, for Dis­or­derly Con­duct. He was released. Bryan Police have opted to with­hold any fur­ther infor­ma­tion about Johnson’s arrest.

A woman was lucky after her car crashed Mon­day morn­ing in Defi­ance on East River Drive, west of East High Street. Defi­ance Police say it hap­pened around 11:30 Mon­day morn­ing, when the woman’s vehi­cle ran off the road, hit a util­ity pole and came to rest in the trees and …