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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 …

The Defi­ance Fire Depart­ment is get­ting almost $10,000 in fed­eral grant money. $9,595 to be exact, accord­ing to U.S. Sen­a­tor Sher­rod Brown’s office. The money will be used for oper­a­tions and safety, and is being pro­vided through a grant by the U.S. Depart­ment of Home­land Security’s Fed­eral Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency …

What started out as an appar­ent big loss to the com­mu­nity, has instead, turned into some­thing very pos­i­tive. The trans­for­ma­tion of the for­mer Orchard Hills Coun­try Club is pretty much com­plete. A lit­tle more than a year ago, the for­mer pri­vate course re-opened as a pub­lic course, and the oper­a­tors …

Wauseon has been awarded $300,000 in grant money for a down­town revi­tal­iza­tion project. The Ful­ton County Com­mis­sion­ers were informed of the award in the com­mu­nity devel­op­ment block grant pro­gram. Prop­erty own­ers can now apply for funds to make upgrades to their build­ings in down­town Wauseon. Wauseon was cho­sen out of …

There’s a new dog in town… The Ful­ton County Sheriff’s Office now has a new K-9. The dog’s name is Mag­gie, and she is a 2-year old Ger­man shep­herd, who is being han­dled by Deputy Jeremy Simon. Fol­low­ing six weeks of ini­tial train­ing, Mag­gie began her duties with the Sheriff’s …

In Defi­ance, the pur­chase of a dump truck may now be put off for at least a year. The Cres­cent News reports that an ordi­nance allow­ing the pur­chase of a 2015 tan­dem axle cab and truck chas­sis, dump bed and assem­bly ser­vices was let lie at this week’s coun­cil meet­ing …