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Bryan Police report an arrest Mon­day in a domes­tic case. Police say they took 35 year old Brian Rauch of South Port­land Street in Bryan into cus­tody after he was arrested and charged with domes­tic vio­lence. No other details were made avail­able, but we did find out that Rauch was …

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Bryan Water Department Issues Tips On Winter Water Precautions

As we enter the win­ter sea­son, the Bryan Water Depart­ment is encour­ag­ing every­one to take the fol­low­ing pre­cau­tions to help pro­tect their water lines from freez­ing: Pro­tect exposed pipes from cold air drafts by clos­ing and seal­ing win­dows and any exposed open­ings in base­ments or crawl­spaces. Pro­vide proper insu­la­tion for …

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Christmas Store Set To Open

Christ­mas is right around the cor­ner, and it’s the time of year that folks nat­u­rally come together to help oth­ers who are less for­tu­nate. This year, a com­mu­nity ser­vice project of the Defi­ance County Board of Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties and Good Samar­i­tan School, involves a sec­ond­hand Christ­mas store for the free …

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It May Be Winter, But We’re All Set For Next Summer’s Fireworks

It’s offi­cial… the Fourth of July fire­works cel­e­bra­tion in Bryan next year, will once again be held at Recre­ation Park, after hav­ing been moved from the pre­vi­ous loca­tion near Bryan Mid­dle School. Last sum­mer, the dis­play was launched from Recre­ation Park, and it was a suc­cess accord­ing to the Byan …

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NSCC To Meet Wednesday At Noon

The exec­u­tive com­mit­tee of the North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees will meet on Wednes­day, tomor­row, at 12 Noon in the McDougle Cen­ter. The meet­ing is planned for dis­cus­sion and review of agenda items in prepa­ra­tion for the reg­u­lar board of trustees meet­ing, which is sched­uled for Fri­day, Decem­ber …

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Farmers Again Fighting The Weather

We’re get­ting win­ter weather, and yet, the fall har­vest sea­son is still under­way. Many area farm­ers are way behind this year, after the late start they got last spring. On top of that, there was a lot of rain last month, and the soil became sat­u­rated, which pre­vented farm­ers from …

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Montpelier Man Dies In Crash

A man from Mont­pe­lier died in a crash Fri­day evening. The Ohio High­way Patrol say 87 year old Lavon Joice was east­bound on US-20 just west of County Road 15 Fri­day night around 8:30 when he lost con­trol of his vehi­cle, and crossed over into the west­bound lane, slam­ming into …

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Age-Progression Photos Of Skelton Children Released

The National Cen­ter for Miss­ing and Exploited Chil­dren has released new age-progression pho­tos for Andrew, Alexan­der and Tan­ner Skel­ton. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the cen­ter releases new updates every two years when a child is miss­ing, until their 18th birth­day. After that, a new pic­ture is released every five …

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Winter Driving Begins Early

Be care­ful out on the roads today. Just after 4 this morn­ing, a spe­cial weather state­ment was issued by the National Weather Ser­vice in north­ern Indi­ana, indi­cat­ing that a light dust­ing of snow fell across the region overnight, caus­ing some some icy spots on roads… espe­cially on bridges and over­passes. …

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What Was In The Sky??

Bryan Police are inves­ti­gat­ing the sight­ing of some­thing… but they just don’t know what it was. Early Tues­day morn­ing, just after 1am, a per­son liv­ing on South Lebanon Street, reported a strange red ball in the sky. It wasn’t the first time such a report came in. On Sep­tem­ber 4th …

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