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Ren­o­va­tions are under­way at the Defi­ance pub­lic library. Cur­rently crews are work­ing on the lower level of the build­ing, where the new children’s library will be located. Library offi­cials say the work being com­pleted now is just part of a larger ren­o­va­tion project that has been five years in the …

Goodyear is start­ing to explore where to locate a new $500 mil­lion tire plant that it hopes to open within three years. Goodyear says it intends to con­struct a state-of-the-art fac­tory that would make about 6 mil­lion tires a year. The tire maker says its search is wide open, and …

The Bryan High School class of 2014 have received their diplo­mas. 150 seniors took part in the school’s 136th annual grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mony Sun­day after­noon at Golden Bear Sta­dium. Bryan City Schools Super­in­ten­dent Diana Sav­age pre­sented the Ohio Hon­ors Diploma recip­i­ents, Coun­selor Kim Bas­sett announced the Top Ten Per­cent stu­dents and …

Schol­ar­ships were announced and awards were given out for out­stand­ing stu­dents and GPAs at the recent 22nd Annual Aca­d­e­mic Awards Ban­quet at Hill­top High School. The guest speaker was Dr. Shea Walkup, a 1995 Hill­top grad­u­ate. He cur­rently is a den­tist with the Bryan Den­tal Group.

The Mov­ing Wall-Vietnam Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial will be on dis­play in Defi­ance next month to com­mem­o­rate the 50th anniver­sary of the start of the Viet­nam War. The wall will be escorted into town on the morn­ing of June 12th by a pro­ces­sion of motor­cy­cles and will be erected on Web­ster Street …

Con­struc­tion at the site of the new Napoleon Ele­men­tary School is ramp­ing up as the school year comes to a close. The new school on West­morelnd Avenue is expected to be fin­ished for the start of the 2015-’16 school year. A new junior high wing is also being added to …

State health offi­cials urg­ing Ohio res­i­dents to ensure they’re vac­ci­nated for measles and mumps say grad­u­a­tion cel­e­bra­tions and sum­mer travel can be oppor­tu­ni­ties for such dis­eases to spread if peo­ple don’t take pre­ven­ta­tive mea­sures. At least 396 cases of mumps have been con­firmed in an out­break of the con­ta­gious viral …

Con­gress­man Bob Latta held a series of lis­ten­ing ses­sions for vet­er­ans in his dis­trict this week amid con­cerns about the Depart­ment of Vet­er­ans Affairs report­edly delay­ing care and fab­ri­cat­ing doc­u­ments to cover it up. The meet­ings were held in Per­rys­burg, Find­lay and Definance

Nine peo­ple were injured when a school bus car­ry­ing 47 stu­dents col­lided with a dump truck in north­ern Indi­ana yes­ter­day. Seven stu­dents and two adults were taken to the hos­pi­tal, then returned to the Wawasee Mid­dle School in Syra­cuse, where they were met by school nurses while par­ents were noti­fied. …

Emer­gency crews responded to a crash involv­ing a big rig that the Jef­fer­son Avenue rail­road viaduct in Defi­ance yes­ter­day. No one was hurt, but dam­age was exten­sive. The top of the trailer was peeled off.