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The Mov­ing Wall-Vietnam Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial will be at Defi­ance Col­lege from Thurs­day through Sun­day to mark the 50th anniver­sary of the Viet­nam War. Begin­ning Thurs­day morn­ing at 9, the Wall will have a motor­cy­cle escort, with more than 1,000 motor­cy­clists who plan to take part in the pro­ces­sion. That motor­cy­cle …

An Angola man learned Mon­day in Steuben County Court, that he will spend six years of a 12 year sen­tence in prison, after enter­ing a guilty plea to Deal­ing Metham­phet­a­mine. 30-year-old Steven Jack­son was arrested last Novem­ber in a meth bust. His guilty plea was part of a plea agree­ment, …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross has announced that the Blood­mo­bile will be in Bryan on Thurs­day from 11 to 5 at the Bryan Knights of Colum­bus on Buf­falo Road. As always, blood dona­tions of all types are needed. The Red Cross says dur­ing the sum­mer months, with folks trav­el­ing and on …

Notice has been given that there will be a Spe­cial Meet­ing of the Board of Edu­ca­tion of the Bryan City School Dis­trict. The spe­cial meet­ing will be held tomor­row morn­ing at 9 at the New Era Build­ing. Accord­ing to the announce­ment of the meet­ing, the pur­pose will be to hold …

Sauder Vil­lage in Arch­bold is host­ing a free Agri­cul­tural Lec­ture Series at the Her­itage Inn. The first lec­ture of the sea­son is sched­uled for 7:30 this evening, and is enti­tled “The Dawn of the Golden Age of Agri­cul­ture — Early 20th Cen­tury Farm­ing in the Heart­land.“ The pro­gram is free …

The Pauld­ing County Fair begins today with Can­cer Aware­ness Day, and runs through Sat­ur­day. Admis­sion is free. Tonight at 6:30, the junior fair parade gets under­way, with line-up at 6 p.m. Imme­di­ately fol­low­ing the parade is the junior fair coro­na­tion cer­e­mony at the grand­stand. The Thun­der of the Night band …

A flag dis­posal cer­e­mony is set for this evening in Bryan. If you have an old, tat­tered flag, drop it off at the Bryan Fire/Police com­plex, Senior Cen­ter, Bryan Cham­ber of Com­merce or at the office of the Bryan Times. You can also bring old flags to the flag dis­po­si­tion …

A north­east Indi­ana woman was crit­i­cally injured in a crash early Sun­day in DeKalb County. 25 year old Han­nah Bercot was south­bound on DeKalb County Road 61 around 2am, when she drifted left of cen­ter and over cor­rected accord­ing to offi­cers, cross­ing back over the cen­ter line and off the …

In Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court, the Ayersville Local School Dis­trict has dis­missed a suit against a state fire mar­shal and has agreed to com­ply with a num­ber of fire code issues. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, the school filed the suit in March, nam­ing state fire mar­shal Larry Flow­ers …

In Steuben County, the Plan­ning Office is… well… plan­ning. Dis­posal of tires will begin to cost you this sum­mer in Steuben County. Now, county offi­cials are plan­ning to have a “Tire Recy­cle Day” at the County High­way Depart­ment some­time in July. They say they were over­whelmed dur­ing a “Tire Amnesty …