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At their meet­ing on Mon­day, the Stryker Local Schools Board of Edu­ca­tion approved some per­son­nel changes for the 2015–16 school year. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the board of edu­ca­tion also accepted at least one res­ig­na­tion, that of teacher Beth Lewis, and the hir­ing of sev­eral vol­un­teers. Teach­ing con­tracts for …

More evi­dence that drugs are becom­ing a major prob­lem in our area… Two peo­ple from Alvord­ton were indicted by a Ful­ton County grand jury this week on drug related charges. 37 year old William Mohr is charged with eight counts of ille­gal assem­bly or pos­ses­sion of chem­i­cals for man­u­fac­ture of …

Farm­ers here in north­west Ohio may soon find them­selves hit with a big tax bill. The Bryan Times reports, it’s all because of a com­plex for­mula, called Cur­rent Agri­cul­tural Use Value, that was orig­i­nally designed to save farm­ers money on their taxes. It was orig­i­nally set up back in the …

The Gov­er­nors High­way Safety Asso­ci­a­tion says motor­cy­cle fatal­li­ties fell slightly in 2014, for the sec­ond straight year. Report author Allan Williams says how­ever, there is still much work to be done to help keep motor­cy­cle dri­vers safe. The report finds that motor­cy­cle fatal­i­ties are up 26 per­cent from 10 years …

Napoleon City Coun­cil met Mon­day evening, and some changes to var­i­ous sec­tions of the coun­cil rules were dis­cussed. Among the changes… lim­it­ing pub­lic com­ments made dur­ing meet­ings to five min­utes per indi­vid­ual, and the way anony­mous com­plaints against city employ­ees and per­son­nel are han­dled. That sec­ond item on the agenda …

Albert Horn Jr. of Bryan is among 9 older Ohioans who will be inducted into the Ohio Senior Cit­i­zens Hall of Fame next week.Horn ral­lied and directed civic minded indi­vid­u­als into estab­lish­ing the Bryan Area Foundation,which now has more than 20 mil­lion dol­lars in assets..oversees 300 sep­a­rate funds and has …

There’s a new county court con­sta­ble in Williams County. He’s Rex Lawrence, who is cur­rently a sheriff’s deputy and the court bailiff. In his new posi­tion Lawrence will be in charge of over­see­ing secu­rity at the Williams County Cour­t­house. That will include man­ning the new secu­rity sta­tion at the west …

In Defi­ance, police today con­tinue their inves­ti­ga­tion into a pedestrian/train acci­dent that hap­pened early Sun­day morn­ing. It was just after 1am Sun­day, at the rail­road cross­ing at Ottawa Avenue, when 36 year old William Southam Jr of Ham­ler, was report­edly walk­ing south on Ottawa Avenue, when for some rea­son, he …

Red Nose Day is com­ing. It’s this Thurs­day, and it’s designed to raise money for chil­dren and young peo­ple liv­ing in poverty. Cor­po­rate part­ners Wal­greens and M&M’s stand behind the efforts to raise money Thurs­day, which will be donated to 12 char­i­ties that ben­e­fit young peo­ple. Locally, stu­dents at Holy …

Sum­mer food pro­grams here in North­west Ohio are get­ting ready to kick off. The North­west­ern Ohio Com­mu­nity Action Com­mis­sion offers the pro­gram, along with the U.S. Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion and Ohio Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture. The aim is to make sure that kids get free and healthy lunches when school is …