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The local chap­ter of the NAACP will hold a cel­e­bra­tion of Dr. Mar­tin Luther King Day next Mon­day, Jan. 20, at noon at the North­towne Mall, Defi­ance. There will be per­form­ing choirs, an MLK cake-cutting cer­e­mony, book dis­plays, video dis­plays and more. The event is open to the pub­lic. For …

The Lib­erty Cen­ter vil­lage coun­cil elected Terry Bow­ers as pres­i­dent for the new year. Com­mit­tee assign­ments were also made at last week’s orga­ni­za­tional meet­ing, with Bow­ers chair­ing the ceme­tery com­mit­tee. Brian Rogers will be the chair for the finance and zon­ing com­mit­tee. Roger Fisher is head of safety, and Den­nis …

Bryan police report the arrest of 26 year old Adam Cham­ber­lain of Bryan on a Bench War­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal court for fail­ure to appear for OVI and anti-noise peel­ing. He was taken to CCNO.

It’s that time of year again… The cook­ies are back! Girl Scouts through­out the region will be sell­ing cook­ies the next few weeks. As of Fri­day, Six kinds of cook­ies are avail­able this year: thin mints, samoas, taga­longs, do-si-dos, short­bread, and Savan­nah Smiles. Boxes this year will cost $5 each. …

After the record break­ing cold tem­per­a­tures, shel­ters through­out the area are in need of new sup­plies. The unprece­dented cold weather brought in unprece­dented num­bers of peo­ple need­ing shel­ter and that took a toll on sup­plies that are nor­mally stocked at shel­ters. Items needed are socks, shirts, blan­kets, and pants. Ear …

The Pauld­ing County Sher­iff, as of late yes­ter­day morn­ing, can­celed the level 2 road advi­sory in that county. Sher­iff Jason Lan­ders said how­ever, that the level being lifted doesn’t mean that all of the roads are in the best con­di­tion. The sher­iff issued a state­ment say­ing there are a num­ber …

Bryan Police on Wednes­day evening, arrested 21 year old Phillip J. Bernard of Bryan on a bench war­rant from the Williams County Sheriff’s Dept. He was taken to CCNO. Also on Wednes­day, just after 10:30PM, Bryan police say they picked up 22 year old Bri­tani M. Smith of Defi­ance for …

On Thurs­day, Brian Car­lin, the Util­i­ties Direc­tor at Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties, told Board of Pub­lic Affairs mem­bers the recent win­ter storm actu­ally made some money for the city util­ity. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the city’s elec­tric usage was expected to be higher than usual because of the extreme cold. …

A Mont­pe­lier man learned his fate Thurs­day in Williams County Court. 40 year old Daniel Bignell JR will spend the next 15 years behind bars, after which he will have to reg­is­ter as a sex­ual preda­tor every 90 days for the rest of his life. Bignell was sen­tenced yes­ter­day after …

The State High­way Patrol and ODOT both say that dri­vers did a pretty good job obey­ing the requests to stay off the roads after the recent win­ter storm dumped any­where from nine to 14 inches in our region and emer­gency per­son­nel issued level 3 advi­sories to keep indi­vid­u­als off the …