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In Defi­ance, East Sec­ond Street, from Prospect Street to Grover Avenue, is offi­cially open once again. The road had been closed since the begin­ning of June for replace­ment of the Pre­ston Run cul­vert. Sand Ridge Exca­vat­ing of Cloverdale, was the con­trac­tor cho­sen by the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion for the …

Indi­ana Con­ser­va­tion Offi­cers, along with offi­cers from the Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment and the Steuben County Coro­ner are inves­ti­gat­ing human skele­tal remains found at Hamil­ton Lake in Steuben County. A per­son walk­ing near the lake dis­cov­ered the remains Sat­ur­day evening near the shore­line. On Sun­day, scuba divers from the Indi­ana …

With sum­mer wind­ing down, gas prices have dropped in recent weeks. The web site www.gasbuddy.com says the aver­age price for gas in Ohio is $3.37. Prices in Stryker are as low as $3.28 a gal­lon. In Auburn, $3.33. In Bryan, the aver­age price of a gal­lon of reg­u­lar is hold­ing …

In Edger­ton, vot­ers will choose whether or not to approve an addi­tional three-quarters of one per­cent income tax, on top of the cur­rent one per­cent income tax which was enacted way back in the 1970s. Pub­lic meet­ings on the bal­lot issue have been set for Sept. 16, Oct. 7 and …

Bryan Police on Mon­day, arrested 23 year old Christo­pher Church of Beech Street in Bryan and charged him with Domes­tic Vio­lence. Church was locked up in CCNO. Police are play­ing this one pretty close to the vest, and are not pro­vid­ing any addi­tional infor­ma­tion at this time about the arrest. …

The Bryan School Board held their reg­u­lar meet­ing Mon­day. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, teacher work­days got under­way Mon­day and they con­tinue today. Open houses and ori­en­ta­tions also are tak­ing place. Wednes­day is the big open­ing day. The board yes­ter­day, approved per­ma­nent appro­pri­a­tions for the new school year total­ing about …

In Napoleon, city lead­ers on Sat­ur­day, toured the water treat­ment plant, as plans for a large-scale reha­bil­i­ta­tion of the facil­ity are being made. The tour gave coun­cil mem­bers a good chance to see what needs to be done at the plant, as they pre­pare to decide how to pro­ceed with …

Con­struc­tion is under­way at Hil­lan­dale Farms’ new facil­ity east of Hicksville. The Cres­cent News reports that although the rough win­ter we had last year, along with the extremely wet spring, slowed the begin­ning of the con­struc­tion project, it is still on tar­get to be fully oper­a­tional next year. The facil­ity …

Flames caused exten­sive dam­age on Fri­day after­noon to an Angola area home. Accord­ing to the Steuben County sheriff’s office, it hap­pened around 4 FRi­day after­noon at a house just a few miles south of Angola, report­edly owned by Bruce and Evie Adams. The fire depart­ment said flames and heavy smoke …

The Ful­ton County Sheriff’s Office has announced that they plan to con­duct a high vis­i­bil­ity traf­fic blitz in con­junc­tion with the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over national cam­paign. The blitz begins today and runs through Sept. 1. The sheriff’s office will be work­ing this blitz at var­i­ous times and …