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With tem­per­a­tures in the sin­gle dig­its, the Bryan Water Depart­ment would like to encour­age res­i­dents to take the fol­low­ing pre­cau­tions to help pro­tect their water lines from freez­ing: Pro­tect exposed pipes from cold air drafts by clos­ing and seal­ing win­dows and any exposed open­ings in base­ments or crawl­spaces. Pro­vide proper …

Daniel L. Bignell Jr. was found guilty on three counts of first-degree felony rape after he entered an Alford plea Tues­day morn­ing in the Williams County Court of Com­mon Pleas. That means he still says he’s inno­cent, but admits there’s enough evi­dence for a guilty ver­dict from a jury. In …

The site for the district’s pro­posed new pre-kindergarten through grade 12 school was approved Mon­day dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing of the Lib­erty Cen­ter Local Board of Edu­ca­tion. Now, it goes before the vot­ers. The board decided that the new school will be built on site, although they didn’t take a …

Four out­go­ing mem­bers of Stryker Vil­lage Coun­cil were thanked at Monday’s vil­lage coun­cil meet­ing and rec­og­nized for their years of ser­vice. The Bryan Times reports that Joan Ruf­fer was hon­ored for hav­ing given 30 years of ser­vice to the com­mu­nity, Tom Hor­ton with 17, Carol Fee­han with 16 and Dan …

The Edger­ton Board of Edu­ca­tion wrapped up the year’s busi­ness at their meet­ing Mon­day night. Sev­eral staff posi­tions were filled, and the board approved pol­icy man­ual updates as pre­sented at the Novem­ber meet­ing. They then set Mon­day, Jan. 6th at 7 p.m. as the orga­ni­za­tional meet­ing for the board, with …

It’s a busy place… The Defi­ance com­post site closed for the sea­son last month, but is sure did get plenty of use this year. The site, which is open three days a week for about eight months annu­ally, closed for the year on Nov. 26. It’s planned to open again …

The trial of 40 year old Daniel Bignell Jr. got under­way Mon­day in the Williams County Court of Com­mon Pleas. Bignell is accused of five counts of rape, two counts of attempted rape, four counts of gross sex­ual impo­si­tion, and three counts of kid­nap­ping. His alleged vic­tims were all under­age …

An Angola man now faces mul­ti­ple charges con­nected to an alleged sex­ual assault. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment reports the arrest of 27 year old Kile Stock­ert, who is fac­ing up to six felony charges. Inves­ti­ga­tors say early Sun­day morn­ing, a 26-year old woman claimed she was sex­u­ally assaulted. She …

A Mont­pe­lier woman is get­ting national atten­tion… from the NRA. Phyl­lis Her­ring­ton has been named recip­i­ent of this year’s Mar­ion P. Ham­mer Woman of Dis­tinc­tion Award by the National Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion. This award is named after the first woman pres­i­dent of the NRA. Her­ring­ton has worked at the Camp Perry …

North­west Town­ship has issued a press release regard­ing snow poli­cies. Accord­ing to the release, only mail­boxes that have actu­ally been hit by a town­ship truck or plow will be repaired or replaced by the town­ship. Repair of mail­boxes dam­aged by fly­ing snow or slush dur­ing plow­ing will be the owner’s …