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Bryan Mayor Doug John­son told City Coun­cil on Tues­day that the city has already used the 500 tons of rock salt it had stored for the win­ter. The Bryan Times reports that John­son said the city then ordered another 194 tons, which was fol­lowed by another order for another 73 …

The 21st Cen­tury is clos­ing in fast on Bryan.. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, cus­tomers of Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties’ Inter­net ser­vice soon should notice some faster speeds and bet­ter con­nec­tions. A recent upgrade to the util­i­ties’ cur­rent 45 Mbps ded­i­cated cir­cuit to a 500 Mbps eth­er­net cir­cuit sup­plied by Sprint …

The cold win­ter weather is back with a vengeance, and it appears as though it’s going to stick around for at least a few more weeks. On Sun­day, in response to the unusu­ally cold tem­per­a­tures, the Gov­er­nor issued a “propane emer­gency” for all of Ohio’s 88 coun­ties. The governor’s dec­la­ra­tion …

A point-in-time home­less count is held locally as well as across Ohio each year. Statewide, there were 12,325 home­less found dur­ing the count, accord­ing to the 2013 Ohio Home­less Report from the Coali­tion on Home­less­ness and hous­ing in Ohio. This year’s point-in-time count here in our region will take place …

If you’re look­ing for a career change and you are fascinated by the weather, you just might want to talk to the folks at the National Weather Ser­vice. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the agency is look­ing for some­body who would like to take over weather obser­va­tion duties for the …

Pauld­ing County Hos­pi­tal has received a clean finan­cial bill of health by audi­tor of the state Dave Yost’s office. In fact, Pauld­ing County Hospital’s excel­lent record keep­ing has earned it the Audi­tor of State Award. The Audi­tor of State Award is pre­sented to local gov­ern­ments and school dis­tricts upon the …

The gov­er­nor has issued a statewide energy emer­gency dec­la­ra­tion in order to expe­dite ship­ments of propane and help ease tight propane gas sup­plies which have been brought on by the extreme cold weather. Now, the gov­er­nor is also ask­ing the fed­eral gov­ern­ment to take sim­i­lar steps so that propane gas …

The Henry County Depart­ment of Health reports that 162 cases of influenza have been reported to the depart­ment, along with sev­eral hos­pi­tal­iza­tions and one flu death so far this year in Henry County. The depart­ment goes on to state that, while it seems high and any death related to the …

The Napoleon Fire Depart­ment will be hold­ing a pan­cake break­fast on Feb. 9 from 7 a.m.-1 p.m. at the depart­ment. Items to be served will include pan­cakes, scram­bled eggs, sausage links and pat­ties, toast and bev­er­ages. The break­fast will be for a free-will dona­tion with pro­ceeds going to improve the …

The owner of a local animal shelter is headed to trial on charges that she abused the animals entrusted to her care. Vickie Cornell, owner of Skinny Little Buddy’s Animal Shelter of Edon is facing 20 counts of cruelty to animals after more than 50 animals were rescued from her …