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Fair Starts Tomorrow

The Williams County fair begins tomor­row. It will kick off with a cham­pi­onship rodeo. Other events planned this year include lots of coun­try music, and great entertainment.The fair will run through Sept. 13. Admis­sion to the fair is $5 with chil­dren age 12 and younger admit­ted for free. A weekly …

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Bryan Man Arrested For Open Container Violation

Another reminder that you shouldn’t drink and drive, or drink in pub­lic. Not only is it dan­ger­ous and ille­gal, but it will even­tu­ally catch up with you, and it will cost you a lot in the end. Bryan Police nabbed some­body for it yes­ter­day, and now they are on the …

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Food Pantries Report Increased Reliance

Demand is up at some local food pantries, and that’s trou­ble­some news. The Bryan Times reports that Open Hands Car­ing Hearts wor­ship cen­ter, the site of a food give­away on Tues­day night, was filled with peo­ple eager to get their hands on boxes of food such as grapes, bread, meat, …

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Putnam Crash Claims Life

A two-vehicle crash Wednes­day morn­ing in Put­nam County left one man dead. I hap­pened on Ohio 115 near Put­nam County Road M in Union Town­ship just before 5:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing, when a trac­tor trailer dri­ven by 36 year old Shane Baker of Fre­mont, Indi­ana was attempt­ing to back into a …

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The Fair Is Coming!

It’s going to be fun for the entire fam­ily when the Williams County fair begins Sat­ur­day, start­ing with a cham­pi­onship rodeo. Other events planned this year include lots of coun­try music, and great enter­tain­ment. The fair will run through Sept. 13. Admis­sion to the fair is $5 with chil­dren age …

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Edgerton To Install New Software

Edger­ton Coun­cil this week, approved the third read­ing of an ordi­nance autho­riz­ing a con­tract for data pro­cess­ing soft­ware, train­ing, con­ver­sion, instal­la­tion and related hard­ware. The new sys­tem will be installed before the end of the year. Coun­cil also passed the final read­ing of a res­o­lu­tion autho­riz­ing an appli­ca­tion for par­tic­i­pa­tion …

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Get Ready For The Williams County Fair

It’s going to be fun for the entire fam­ily when the Williams County fair begins Sat­ur­day, start­ing with a cham­pi­onship rodeo. Other events planned this year include lots of coun­try music, and great enter­tain­ment. Coun­try artist Dustin Lynch will per­form on Sun­day. Admis­sion to the show is $18 for grand­stand …

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Salt Prices Skyrocketing

With sum­mer pretty much behind us already, and Labor Day now in the rear view mir­ror, thoughts are, whether we want them to or not, turn­ing to the colder months ahead. Some com­mu­ni­ties in our area are now find­ing out that the cost of road salt has sky­rock­eted. For instance, …

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Steuben Commissioners Say Names Will Stay On-Line

Steuben County Com­mis­sion­ers on Tues­day, rejected a request from two county employ­ees who asked that their names be removed from the county web site. It all began when a threat made against a Steuben County judge prompted a review of the county’s pol­icy in July about remov­ing names. After that, …

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Former Councilman Pleads No Contest To Felony Charge

A for­mer Wauseon City Coun­cil­man pleaded no con­test Tues­day to a felony count of theft in office for steal­ing county prop­erty while he was Ful­ton County’s inspec­tor of weights and mea­sures. 62 year old Fred Allen allegedly stole unspec­i­fied “prop­erty or ser­vices” owned by the county. Allen was a mem­ber …

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