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The Bryan Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment has announced that it will be offer­ing Water Aer­o­bics Classes at East End Pool this sum­mer. Water aer­o­bics helps burn calo­ries and tone mus­cles while let­ting you stay cool in the water. Accord­ing to instruc­tors, it’s a great work­out for men and women of …

The cost of dying may soon increase in Defi­ance. City council’s build­ings and lands com­mit­tee is dis­cussing increases in bur­ial and grave fees for River­side Ceme­tery in Defi­ance, after going over the num­bers and com­ing up with the con­clu­sion that a lot of money is spent on the ceme­tery, while …

The Steuben County High­way Depart­ment has announced that County Road 200 West between 100 North and the Angola City Lim­its will be shut down on Thurs­day for road­side work. Accord­ing to Steuben County Engi­neer Jen­nifer Sharkey, the work will likely take all day tomor­row to com­plete. If you need addi­tional …

We told you recently about the big auto auc­tion planned for Auburn ear­lier this month. Well, now the results are in, and they are quite impres­sive. Auc­tions Amer­ica offered more than 770 vehi­cles, and more than 87 per­cent of them were sold at the auc­tion, for a total of $19.1 …

Bryan Police say they arrested 24 year old Mark E. Coul­ter of Arch­bold for Dis­or­derly Con­duct over the week­end. He was released. On Sun­day, Bryan Police arrested 25 year old Andrew J. Lautzen­heiser of Hamil­ton, Indi­ana for Crim­i­nal Dam­ag­ing. He too was released. Also on Sun­day, Bryan Police say 36 …

A new agri­cul­tural museum is planned in Michi­gan that, when fin­ished, would include a col­lec­tion of 6,000 farm toys as well as dis­plays on the his­tory of agri­cul­ture and agri­cul­ture tech­nol­ogy. The Daily Telegram of Adrian reports the 30,000-square-foot museum would be built in Bliss­field. The museum is designed as …

The Defi­ance County Sher­iff is warn­ing home­own­ers of another scam mak­ing the rounds. Here’s how it works… Some­body is using an app to manip­u­late Caller ID to make it appear that the per­son on the phone is a Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Deputy. The Sher­iff says a scam­mer called one per­son …

A new report from the state says 18,000 chil­dren were reported miss­ing in Ohio last year. The report says all but a hand­ful were found safely and those who remain miss­ing are sus­pected run­aways. The 2013 Ohio Miss­ing Chil­dren Clear­ing­house Report from the state attor­ney general’s office says 450 adults …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol is remind­ing dri­vers this Memo­r­ial Day to not get behind the wheel impaired. Troop­ers and local law enforce­ment will be join­ing forces in an effort to keep Ohio roads fatal­ity free this hol­i­day. Troop­ers made 705 OVI arrests dur­ing the 2013 Memo­r­ial Day hol­i­day. Dur­ing …

The price of gaso­line this Memo­r­ial Day is about where it has been for the past two or three Memo­r­ial Days. Nation­ally, the aver­age is right around $3.64 per gal­lon. In Bryan, we’re pay­ing on aver­age, a lit­tle more than that this Memo­r­ial Day, with prices at the pump at …