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A total loss… that’s how the Henry County Sheriff’s Office is refer­ring to a house that was dam­aged by flames Tues­day after­noon in Lib­erty Cen­ter. The Sheriff’s Office reports that the Lib­erty Cen­ter Fire Depart­ment was called to a home owned by Mil­ton Reighard on County Road 4A just before …

Henry County Court has been a busy place recently. Estel Lud­wig of Wood County was sen­tenced to 59 months in prison, after plead­ing guilty to Break­ing and Enter­ing. 49 year old John Suber of Desh­ler pled guilty to a felony charge of Domes­tic Vio­lence. Suber was ordered to serve 10 …

Bryan Police say 31 year old Aaron Pow­ell of Defi­ance, was charged with remov­ing trash. He was served and released. Bryan Police also report eh arrest of 28 year old Anthony J. Oliver of Bryan, who was charged with vio­lat­ing a tem­po­rary pro­tec­tion order. He was served and released too. …

West Unity Vil­lage Coun­cil met recently and learned that Kamco Indus­tries is plan­ning an expan­sion. The Bryan Times reports that a cur­rent ware­house on Lin­den Street in West Unity will dou­ble in size. As soon as weather per­mits, con­trac­tors will start con­struc­tion on the expan­sion which will then be used …

Today and Wednes­day a team of com­mu­nity vol­un­teers and school staff mem­bers in Bryan is work­ing on the devel­op­ment of sug­ges­tions to help guide the Bryan school board in the project details of the new school con­struc­tion. Bryan City Schools Super­in­ten­dent Diana Sav­age told the Bryan Times that approx­i­mately 50 …

Henry County has some big plans for a num­ber of roads and bridges this year. Henry County plans to resur­face four miles of roads and to chip and seal more than 36 miles of county high­ways, along with six bridge and cul­vert projects that are planned to be under­taken. The …

Dozens of law enforce­ment offi­cers from through­out north­west Ohio recently com­pleted advanced emer­gency vehi­cle oper­a­tions train­ing at a road-race course near Colum­bus. Six Han­cock County sheriff’s deputies, three from Pauld­ing County, three from Defi­ance, and two from Find­lay were among those who com­pleted the six-hour course offered by the Ohio …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Offi­cer reports that a Michi­gan man is behind bars fol­low­ing a high-speed chase. It started just before 2am Sat­ur­day when a Williams County deputy saw a vehi­cle trav­el­ing at a high rate of speed and headed east on U.S. 20A in Madi­son Town­ship. The deputy tried …

Bryan Police have been keep­ing busy. They report: 20 year old Nicholas Bishop of Bryan was arrested and charged with con­sum­ing under­age. He was released on his own recog­ni­zance. 19 year old Joshua Cox of Bryan was arrested and charged with two counts of fur­nish­ing alco­hol to a minor. He …

Police say alco­hol is sus­pected to be behind the crash in Put­nam County Thurs­day night which sent an Ottawa man by air ambu­lance to St. Rita’s Med­ical Cen­ter, Lima. The Ohio High­way patrol reports that a vehi­cle dri­ven by 27 year old Gre­gory White Jr was west­bound on U.S. 224 …