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Elec­tion results are spon­sored by Bryan Ford Lin­coln.… 1 — In the Bryan City School Dis­trict the Pro­posed Bond Issue for school con­struc­tion for grades 6–12 and the remod­el­ing of the mid­dle school for Pre-K-5 grades, 7.45 mills, for a max­i­mum of 28 years passed with 55% of the votes. 2 …

Elec­tion results are spon­sored by Bryan Ford Lincoln… 1 — In the Bryan City School Dis­trict the Pro­posed Bond Issue for school con­struc­tion for grades 6–12 and the remod­el­ing of the mid­dle school for Pre-K-5 grades, 7.45 mills, for a max­i­mum of 28 years passed with 55% of the votes. 2 …

Bryan Police report the arrest of a man for dis­or­derly con­duct. Police say they picked up 47 year old Pedro Salaz in Room #22 at the M&D Inn. In addi­tion to the dis­or­derly con­duct charge, Salaz was also charged with crim­i­nal tres­pass. He was locked up in CCNO.

An area church went before the Edger­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil Mon­day evening, to ask that some fees be waived. The Rev. Rick Bar­nett, lead pas­tor of the Edger­ton United Methodist Church, said that after suf­fer­ing a dev­as­tat­ing fire in 2012, the North Michi­gan Street church is being rebuilt. Bar­nett talked about …

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 …