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You are invited to a big retire­ment party. The Bryan Times this morn­ing is report­ing that William J Mapes… Bill Mapes to most peo­ple, is retir­ing after 30 years of build­ing houses and edu­cat­ing stu­dents. Mapes is retir­ing as senior car­pen­try instruc­tor at Four County Career Cen­ter, and will be …

It’s still on track… The Defi­ance County cour­t­house ren­o­va­tion project is mov­ing for­ward on sched­ule, despite a num­ber of ques­tions raised dur­ing county com­mis­sion­ers’ meet­ing ear­lier this week, and some red tape in secur­ing a tem­po­rary loca­tion for one cour­t­house office. Archi­tects met with com­mis­sion­ers Mon­day for about 90 min­utes …

Bryan Police made an arrest last night around 9:20, when they nabbed 54 year old Ray Ridg­way of 804 Haver Drive, Bryan, and charged him with Dis­or­derly Con­duct and Pos­ses­sion of Mar­i­juana. AFter being processed, Ridg­way was released.

Fol­low­ing some recent van­dal­ism, cam­eras have now been installed at the vil­lage park in Antwerp. Antwerp Police say a num­ber of van­dal­ism cases, includ­ing one inci­dent of a razor blade attached to a swing set, have been reported. Those inci­dents lead coun­cil to call for the instal­la­tion of cam­eras in …

Chief Super­mar­ket in Bryan is spon­sor­ing a sum­mer patio party wine and beer tast­ing on Fri­day, June 27 with an open house from 6–8 p.m. It’s all to ben­e­fit The Red Cross of Williams and Ful­ton Coun­ties. Selected wines and beer will be avail­able to sam­ple at Chief in Bryan …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion has issued a traf­fic advi­sory again today In Defi­ance County. There will be lane clo­sures again today on U.S. 24 at the bridges between mile­posts 3.5 and 5.5. Clo­sures will also occur in the city of Defi­ance over bridges there on Ohio 15. The clo­sures …

An Angola man was sen­tenced Mon­day in Steuben Court to three years of a six year sen­tence after plead­ing guilty to a Class B felony of Crim­i­nal Deviant Con­duct. The plea bar­gain agree­ment with pros­e­cu­tors was reached with 27-year-old Kile Stock­ert, who was also placed on pro­ba­tion for two years. …

A rare find is on dis­play right now at the Early Ford V-8 Foun­da­tion Museum in Auburn. A rare stain­less steel Ford, that dates back to the 1930s, and is so shiny it’s con­sid­ered a mir­ror on wheels, is one of six 1936 stain­less steel Fords pro­duced by the Ford …

Blood is always in short sup­ply, or so it seems. The sum­mer sea­son, with vaca­tions and folks trav­el­ing, cre­ates an addi­tional strain on sup­plies. How­ever, the Amer­i­can Red Cross Blood­mo­bile held last Thurs­day in Bryan at the Bryan Knights of Colum­bus Hall was a big suc­cess, with 98 units col­lected. …

The state Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion has approved three local highway-rail grade cross­ing projects in our area. The Michi­gan South­ern Rail­road will upgrade the cir­cuitry at grade cross­ings at Fifth and David­son streets in the city of Defi­ance, and at U.S. 127 in Cecil and Main Street at Ohio 49 in …