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As the new school year is set to get under­way, the Ohio High­way Patrol is remind­ing dri­vers to watch out for stopped school buses on the road­ways. Dri­vers are cau­tioned to stop at least 10 feet back when approach­ing a school bus from either direc­tion if it has it’s flash­ing …

Defiance’s River­side Ceme­tery has been in the news a lot over the past cou­ple of months. The ceme­tery was once again a major topic of dis­cus­sion on Tues­day night at the Defi­ance City Coun­cil meet­ing. The Cres­cent News reports that dur­ing a July meet­ing, it was learned that River­side Ceme­tery …

The Bryan Area Foun­da­tion announced Wednes­day, that appli­ca­tions for the 2014–2015 Grants Pro­gram are now avail­able to 501©(3) non­profit orga­ni­za­tions in the Bryan area. The Foun­da­tion has nearly $300,000 avail­able for com­mu­nity grants. Thou­sands of dol­lars of grant funds are awarded each year from des­ig­nated, orga­ni­za­tional endow­ment, donor advised funds, …

As sched­uled, the Bryan City Board of Edu­ca­tion met in spe­cial ses­sion Wednes­day morn­ing to final­ize some per­son­nel issues prior to the start of the new school year. At yesterday’s meet­ing, sev­eral limited-one year con­tracts were approved for sev­eral teach­ers. Megan Lytle was brought on board as a high school …

Things are look­ing good in Wauseon, and soon, with the help of a $300,000 grant from the state, they will look even bet­ter. Wauseon has been awarded the grant money from the state of Ohio, to be used to fund down­town revi­tal­iza­tion projects. Ten com­mu­ni­ties were in the run­ning for …

Another set­back for Ruralogic. The com­pany, based in Bryan, lost a suit in Fed­eral Court that was filed by the US Depart­ment of Labor late last year, alleg­ing improper use of pen­sion funds. The court ruled against Ruralogic, Inc., its sis­ter com­pany Cir­ric, Inc. and their own­ers, Joseph Burmester and …

Yes­ter­day, we told you about a fire in Defi­ance that caused severe dam­age to a home, and left a man with crit­i­cal burns. Today, we have his name. Accord­ing to Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter in Toledo, Gre­gory Dob­son, of North­wood Drive in Defi­ance, is still being treated for burns, …

A man was charged Mon­day fol­low­ing a metham­phet­a­mine bust at a Steuben County camp­ground. 57-year-old Rus­sell Mansell of Freemont, is now fac­ing felony charges of man­u­fac­tur­ing meth, pos­ses­sion of meth, ille­gal pos­ses­sion of pre­cur­sors and main­tain­ing a com­mon nui­sance. Mansell was also charged with pos­ses­sion of a con­trolled sub­stance and …

The high­way patrol is inves­ti­gat­ing a fatal two-vehicle crash in Williams County, that hap­pened Mon­day evening at the inter­sec­tion of County Road I and County Road 10 in Supe­rior Town­ship. Police say a vehi­cle dri­ven by 34 year old Misty Rice of Edon was west­bound on County Road I when …

Flames heav­ily dam­aged a home in Defi­ance Sun­day after­noon. Defi­ance Fire­fight­ers were called out just after 3pm to a house on North­wood Drive. The ini­tial report indi­cated that a man was on fire at the two-story home. The vic­tim was taken to ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal, then flown to Toledo …