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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 p.m. Mon­day, and is enti­tled “The Dawn of the Golden Age of Agri­cul­ture — Early 20th Cen­tury Farm­ing in the Heart­land.“ The pro­gram is free …

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 has been set for Tues­day, June 10th, at 9:00 a.m. at the New Era Build­ing. Accord­ing to the announce­ment of the meet­ing, the pur­pose will …

Ohio-built Jeep vehi­cles set sales records last month. Chrysler’s U.S. deal­ers sold a record num­ber of Ohio-built Jeep Wran­gler and Jeep Chero­kee sport util­ity vehi­cles in May. That helped Jeep to its best sales month ever. The automaker said it sold 19,235 Wran­glers last month, shat­ter­ing the pre­vi­ous mark of …

Con­sumers and busi­nesses will see their elec­tric bills go up if Gov­er­nor Kasich signs a new bill rolling back Ohio’s energy effi­ciency and renew­able energy stan­dards, accord­ing to a let­ter sent to the gov­er­nor on Wednes­day by a coali­tion of 51 com­pa­nies and 21 orga­ni­za­tions. Mean­while, the governor’s office said …

A flag dis­posal cer­e­mony is set for next week 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 …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil has decided that there will be no changes, at least for now, with regard to River­side Ceme­tery rate increases. Coun­cil decided to wait at least another week before vot­ing on rate increases that were announced last week. Under the pro­posal to increase fees, some rates at River­side …

Stu­dents at Antwerp Local mid­dle school raised more than $350 dur­ing the final weeks of the school year for the Cys­tic Fibro­sis Foun­da­tion. The stu­dent coun­cil orga­nized the fundraiser in honor of Cheyenne May­nard, a future Antwerp stu­dent with cys­tic fibrosis.

Pauld­ing County Hos­pi­tal has found a new Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer. And they didn’t have to look far to find him. Randy Ruge, cur­rently the hospital’s Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer, will replace Gary Adkins as CEO. Adkins has resigned, effec­tive June 30th, to become pres­i­dent of Parkview Noble Hos­pi­tal in Kendal­lville, Indi­ana. …

Edger­ton res­i­dents will be asked to approve a 3/4 per­cent income tax increase in the Novem­ber elec­tion. The Edger­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil approved the bal­lot issue at Monday’s meer­ing. Edger­ton res­i­dents cur­rently pay a 1 per­cent income tax.

A kinder­garten teacher has been charged with child endan­ger­ment after she was caught on cam­era appar­ently push­ing one of her stu­dents up against a wall and grab­bing his face and shirt. Pros­e­cu­tors filed a mis­de­meanor charge yes­ter­day against Bar­bara Williams, a teacher at Riverdale Local Schools. Williams had already been …