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Some folks in Ful­ton County are express­ing their dis­plea­sure with a county pol­icy man­dat­ing that pit bulls be euth­a­nized unless claimed by their right­ful own­ers. The ani­mal advo­cacy group Ful­ton County No Kill, together with the Ohio Coali­tion of Dog Advo­cates, now plans to fight for the repeal of a …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion school dis­trict report cards were issued last week, and lit­tle improve­ment was shown for Williams County schools. The Bryan Times today reports that of the seven schools in Williams County, six received a B and one only received a C, accord­ing to the state’s per­for­mance …

The United Way of Defi­ance County has kicked off the 2014–15 cam­paign. This year’s cam­paign is enti­tled “Tak­ing Action and Chang­ing Lives in Defi­ance County.“ Dona­tions to the United Way help fund 22 pro­grams with agency and com­mu­nity part­ners. The cam­paign goal this year is to get 500 new donors …

Hicksville Exempted Vil­lage School offi­cials have released a state­ment in response to a Hicksville Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion law­suit filed ear­lier this year. The school’s attor­ney has filed a reply to the suit reg­is­tered in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court by the teach­ers union on behalf of Amber Apt. In it’s reply, …

If you tried to mail a let­ter from the Bryan Post Office yes­ter­day, you prob­a­bly ran into some dif­fi­culty. That’s because it was closed. The postal ser­vice shut down the Bryan Post Office on Wednes­day, for what they termed “tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties”. Accord­ing to postal author­i­ties, the clo­sure was due to …

The Ful­ton County Sheriff’s Office has released the results of a Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over traf­fic blitz which began on Aug. 15 and ended Sept. 1. Deputies made 94 traf­fic stops and issued 50 cita­tions. 44 were speed vio­la­tions, two cita­tions for dri­ving under sus­pen­sion or revoked driver’s …

New talk about a new build­ing are now start­ing anew, fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery that all the bids for Defi­ance County’s cour­t­house ren­o­va­tion project have come in too high. The bids were opened at county com­mis­sion­ers’ meet­ing Thurs­day, and accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, were all at least 10 per­cent higher …

Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties is all for the Parks and Recre­ation Department’s street tree replace­ment efforts. BMU Direc­tor Brian Car­lin told the Bryan Times, that for a num­ber of years the util­i­ties office has funded the replace­ment of any trees which have been cut down due to power line con­cerns. Work­ers …

A con­tract dis­pute involv­ing the Edon School Board and the Edon North­west Teach­ers Asso­ci­a­tion… Edon Super­in­ten­dent Ed Ewers issued In a a press release issued Wednes­day by the Edon Super­in­ten­dent, it was stated that the two sides have not yet reached an agree­ment on the teacher’s con­tract, despite the fact …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil, at their reg­u­lar meet­ing on Tues­day night, approved safety equip­ment pur­chases and a loader lease. Coun­cil also autho­rized the pur­chase of two Lucas 2 auto­mated chest com­pres­sion sys­tems, and the acqui­si­tion of new fire breath­ing appa­ra­tus. Actu­ally, the fire depart­ment requested only one of the units, but …