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Bryan City Coun­cil on Mon­day approved a 5.3 per­cent wage increase for Bryan Police Patrol Offi­cers Corey Bush and Jeremy Viers. The raises were in accor­dance with the city’s con­tract with the Ohio Patrol­mens Benev­o­lent Asso­ci­a­tion Arti­cle 31. Bush has been with the depart­ment eight years and Viers has served …

Tes­ti­mony con­tin­ues today in the mur­der trial of an Oak­wood woman in Defi­ance County Court. The pros­e­cu­tion rested Mon­day in the trial of 46 year old Judith Hawkey, who is charged with aggra­vated mur­der and other charges in the death of her hus­band. Pros­e­cu­tors say Hawkey made her then ten …

A Ful­ton County man was injured over the week­end in a one-vehicle crash. Accord­ing to the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, 29 year old Felipe Gar­cia Jr of Arch­bold, was taken by air ambu­lance to Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter, Toledo fol­low­ing the Sun­day morn­ing crash on Town­ship Road 14C that …

A man from Pio­neer is in some trou­ble after being picked up by Bryan Police. 23 year old Stet­son Ferry of Clear­fork Avenue in Pio­neer was arrested by Bryan PD on Sun­day. Ini­tially, Ferry was arrested on charges relat­ing to bur­glary. While being processed, Ferry was dis­cov­ered to also have …

Thir­teen young women will bat­tle for the title of Miss North­west­ern Ohio in the pageant schol­ar­ship, sched­uled for Sat­ur­day at the Defi­ance Com­mu­nity Audi­to­rium. Included in the pageant are three con­tes­tants from our local area: Nicole Baringer of Defi­ance, Dominique Ton­neas of Hicksville and Miranda Miller, of Napoleon. The schol­ar­ship …

The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity Exten­sion office in Defi­ance County, in con­junc­tion with Pauld­ing County, will be offer­ing Mas­ter Gar­dener Train­ing classes from Feb. 27– April 24. The classes will run from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. each Thurs­day, for nine weeks. Any­one inter­ested in receiv­ing an appli­ca­tion packet should con­tact the Defi­ance …

The sec­ond of two Indi­ana men con­victed in a string of car thefts and drug man­u­fac­ture in Williams County was sen­tenced last week in Williams County Com­mon Pleas Court. The Bryan Times reports that 24 year old Tim­o­thy L. Dull of Hamil­ton, Ind., was sen­tenced to a total of nine …

Sev­eral new issues will be on the bal­lot for vot­ers in Defi­ance County on Tues­day. One is a 0.3 per­cent per­ma­nent income tax increase request for police and fire ser­vices. If approved, the tax increase would gen­er­ate approx­i­mately $1.4 mil­lion annu­ally, and could only be used for police and fire …

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege has announced that the school has received a grant for the iSTAR ( or Inno­v­a­tive Strate­gic Train­ing that Achieves Results) IT Spe­cial­ist Cer­tifi­cate Pro­gram to run until March 31, 2016. School offi­cials say that although there have been some ques­tions in the past on the grant’s …

If vot­ers in the Bryan City School Dis­trict approve the bond issue on Tuesday’s bal­lot, the exist­ing mid­dle school would be retained, but would be ren­o­vated specif­i­cally for preschool­ers through fifth graders. A new, two-story school would be built for grades six to 12 south­east of the mid­dle school, and …