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Heavy rains and melt­ing snow due to the lit­tle taste of spring we have expe­ri­enced are now caus­ing major prob­lems through­out the area in the form of flood­ing streets and roads and clogged drains. The heavy rains and melt­ing is also caus­ing con­cerns about river flood­ing. Streets in many res­i­den­tial …

We’ve had sub-zero tem­per­a­tures. We’ve had near record, or in some cases, record snow­fall. Now, the win­ter weather that just keeps com­ing is toss­ing another thing at us. The National Weather Ser­vice is now pre­dict­ing tem­per­a­tures to hit 50-degrees or bet­ter today. That’s good news if you want to warm …

Here come the com­put­ers! The Millcreek-West Unity Board of Edu­ca­tion on Tues­day approved an agree­ment to pro­vide some com­put­ers for stu­dents. The dis­trict agreed to get 300 Chrome­books, enough for every stu­dent in grades 7–12. The total amount of the lease is $94,291, with the first year being paid through …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil met on Tues­day night. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, a Defi­ance munic­i­pal ordi­nance that is the sub­ject of a law­suit filed by the Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union on behalf of a local group was amended at that meet­ing. The suit is pend­ing in the U.S. North­ern Dis­trict …

Flames heav­ily dam­aged a rural Angola home on Mon­day after­noon. Fire­fight­ers say when they arrived, they saw heavy smoke com­ing out of the roof. They also say heavy winds ham­pered fire­fight­ing efforts. No other details have been made avail­able and no dam­age esti­mate has yet been given. Also, no word …

The Henry County Com­mis­sion­ers have receive an update on the project planned for improve­ments to the heat­ing, ven­ti­la­tion and air con­di­tion­ing sys­tem at the county cour­t­house. Palmer Con­ser­va­tion told the com­mis­sion­ers that project will begin on March 10th, and should be fin­ished about one month later. The improve­ments should make …

Word came down late Tues­day after­noon from The Toledo Police Depart­ment that the death of Brandi Gonyer-Boaston was a homi­cide. The Bryan Times reports that the Lucas County Coroner’s Office offi­cially listed the cause of death as being due to asphyx­i­a­tion, and there­fore, a homi­cide. The body of 28 year …

A new cable chan­nel in Bryan. Bryan Pub­lic Util­i­ties has announced that WGTE is now being car­ried on chan­nel 18 in Bryan. The new chan­nel car­ries arts and crafts shows, along with cook­ing, gar­den­ing, home improve­ment, and travel pro­grams. The Bryan Times reports that the com­mu­ni­ca­tions depart­ment also is adding …

Lib­erty Cen­ter Local Board of Edu­ca­tion met on Mon­day night. Items on the table included dis­cus­sion of future con­struc­tion of a pre-K through 12 school, first quar­ter income tax fig­ures, and calamity days. The sub­ject of calamity days was of par­tic­u­lar inter­est due to the extreme amounts of snow we’ve …

Napoleon coun­cil met on Mon­day and went over plans to han­dle sewer line repairs, and just who will be held respon­si­ble for the cost of those repairs. Coun­cil directed staff to come-up with a writ­ten pro­ce­dure to address the issue, most likely a fund from a monthly charge on sewer …