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The Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee of the Board of Trustees of North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege informs us they plan to meet today at 12:00 noon in the McDougle Cen­ter. Plans call for dis­cus­sion and review of agenda items in prepa­ra­tion for their reg­u­lar Board of Trustees meet­ing on Fri­day, August 1st. Inter­est­ingly …

Back in 2011, faced with mount­ing finan­cial pres­sures, the United States Postal Ser­vice iden­ti­fied 3,700 post office loca­tions which they termed “under­uti­lized”, to be stud­ied for pos­si­ble clo­sure. Locally, those post offices included the Scott and Latty post offices in Pauld­ing County, Pet­tisville in Ful­ton County and Ridgeville Cor­ners in …

More money is on the way for the Women, Infants, Chil­dren, or WIC pro­gram, in Williams County. That was just one of the many announce­ments made this week at a meet­ing of The Williams County Board of Health. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, at the Williams County Board of Health …

Two Edon res­i­dents were among those indicted Tues­day by a Williams County Grand Jury. 43 year old Alando Smith and 29 year old Jena Thiel were indicted on charges includ­ing drug traf­fick­ing and child endan­ger­ment. The Bryan Times reports that both are now charged with ille­gal man­u­fac­ture of drugs within …

A vio­lent two vehi­cle crash Mon­day after­noon has left a Swan­ton man in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. The Ohio High­way Patrol reports that 34 year old Derek Molina was dri­ving east on Frank­fort Road just before 6 Mon­day evening, as 35 year old Cor­rie Nijakowski, also of Swan­ton, was dri­ving north on …

Bryan Police report a two vehi­cle acci­dent on Mon­day after­noon in Bryan. Police say 25 year old Brit­tany Payne of Michi­gan, and 30 year old Tiffany M. Bauer Bryan were both east­bound on High Street. Accord­ing to the police report, Bauer stopped for traf­fic at Buf­falo Road. That’s when Payne’s …

A new fire truck might be on the way for Pio­neer Vil­lage. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, dis­cus­sion of mak­ing a pur­chase before the August dead­line for the upcom­ing levy was post­poned until Pio­neer vil­lage council’s next meet­ing, but coun­cil is begin­ning to look into pric­ing. Bor­row­ing from the village’s …

Pauld­ing County Sher­iff Jason Lan­ders says he plans to hold a series of town hall meet­ings over the next few weeks through­out the county to seek the publics input in regards to plac­ing a jail oper­at­ing levy on the Novem­ber bal­lot. The meet­ings will take place at all eight fire …

A ded­i­ca­tion cer­e­mony at Four County Career Cen­ter, includ­ing an open house for res­i­dents of Williams, Defi­ance, Ful­ton, and Henry coun­ties is planned for Aug. 21st, when vis­i­tors will have their first chance to view the work. A $4 mil­lion project, begin­ning in 2012, involved three phases. Ini­tially, a new …

A Bryan man who was one of four per­sons arrested on metham­phet­a­mine related charges in drug bust back in April at a home near Hamil­ton entered into a plea agree­ment on Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. 34-year-old Joseph Cotrell pled guilty to a felony charge of aid­ing in the man­u­fac­ture …