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The Bryan School Board just reviewed the local district’s state report card and it fared well. The board met 25 ot 26 required indi­ca­tors for an A rat­ing. It scored a B on its per­for­mance rat­ing. And for grad­u­at­ing 95.8 per cent of stu­dents in four years it also scores …

Some pro­fes­sional ghost­busters will present evi­dence this com­ing Wednes­day at the Bryan Library that the library is haunted. The Ohio Researchers of Band Spir­its, which are three para­nor­mal experts who have appeared on Ani­mal Planet’s The Haunted, Biog­ra­phy Channel’s My Ghost Sto­ries, and the His­tory Channel’s Haunted His­tory, will share …

North­west Ohio towns have released when the lit­tle ghosts and gob­lins and zom­bies will be vis­it­ing door to door. Most will be hav­ing tri­cik or treat­ing on Sat­ur­day Novem­ber first. That would include Bryan, Alvord­ton, Edger­ton, Pulaski and West Unity. And the times are between 5 to 7 or 6 …

The Bryan Area Foun­da­tion had its semi-annual meet­ing yes­ter­day and pro­nounced the foun­da­tion in excel­lent finan­cial con­di­tion. The chair­man, Chip Wood, revealed that the assets are now 22 mil­lion dol­lars, and that will allow the foun­da­tion to give out nearly 700 thou­sand dol­lars in future schol­ar­ships and grants. IN 45 …

The Williams County Engi­neer issued a report this week that will make offi­cials in other coun­ties envi­ous. Engi­neer Todd Roth told the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers that the county has around a thou­sand tons of road salt stored for the upcom­ing win­ter sea­son. He says since it can be extended with …

A web site called Livability.com wanted to find the places in Amer­ica where the pop­u­la­tion is mostly cen­trists polit­i­cally; not lean­ing either to the left or to the right, but smack dab in the mid­dle. And com­ing in at9th in the coun­try for cen­trism is Ore­gon, Ohio. The study shows …

Arch­bold has a new police chief. Joseph Wyse has already been with the ARch­bold police depart­ment for 18 years and is an Arch­bold native. He takes over from Chief Mar­tin Schmidt to was with the depart­ment for 35 years. The Vil­lage Coun­cil chose him from 35 resumes not only from …

The Bryan Board of Ed accepted the res­ig­na­tion of the Lin­coln Ele­men­tary School prin­ci­pal, Tammy Dar­row. They made no men­tion of what was behind the res­ig­na­tion but the Bryan police chief con­firmed he had received a com­plaint from the Super­in­ten­dent about mis­ap­pro­pri­ated funds in ref­er­ence to Ms. Dar­row. An inves­ti­ga­tion …

The Edon North­west Teach­ers Asso­ci­a­tion has given notice they are ready to strike as early as the first week in Novem­ber if an agree­ment on a new con­tract isn’t reached next week. Evern a state medi­a­tor was unable to bring both sides together when they met last week. Their three …

Police offi­cers and deputies are hon­ing their weapons reac­tion skills at the Ohio Peace Offi­cer Train­ing Acad­emy ses­sions set up in the county’s East Annex Build­ing on High Street. Active shooter com­puter sim­u­la­tions are set up in a state pro­gram to test and improve the judge­ment of law enforce­ment offi­cers. …