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Some Defi­ance res­i­dents are not in favor of a pro­posed income tax levy for police and fire ser­vices. At least one per­son has filed a “form 30D” with the Defi­ance County Board of Elec­tions, nam­ing him­self as trea­surer of a polit­i­cal action com­mit­tee known as “Cit­i­zens for Finan­cially Respon­si­ble Defi­ance.“ …

The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office says for the sec­ond sum­mer in a row, there were no major boat­ing acci­dents or drown­ings on lakes in Steuben County. The Steuben County Sher­iff Office Marine Patrol spent 542.5 hours on county lakes. That amounts to the equiv­a­lent of about 22 days. Offi­cers issued …

Pauld­ing County farm­ers could be in for a rude awak­en­ing when they get their tax bills in Jan­u­ary. The CAUV (or cur­rent agri­cul­tural use value) is going up for many soil types in the county. The CAUV rate is going from $670 an acre to $1,600 an acre for crop …

Bryan Police report that on Wednes­day, 23 year old Christo­pher Kizer of Edger­ton was arrested for abuse of Harm­ful Intox­i­cants and Con­tribut­ing to the Delin­quency of a Minor. He was taken to CCNO. Also on Wednes­day, 20 year old Maxwell Sid­ney of Bryan was arrested for Abuse of Harm­ful Intox­i­cants …

A Mont­pe­lier man was arrested Tues­day in con­nec­tion with sex­ual abuse of young girls. 40 year old Daniel Bignell JR now faces 14 felony counts includ­ing four counts of gross sex­ual impo­si­tion, five counts of rape, two counts of attempted rape and three counts of kid­nap­ping. Accord­ing to a Wednes­day …

Peo­ple liv­ing within the Cen­tral Local School Dis­trict area will have to wait a year before learn­ing the fate of their school build­ing. The Bryan Times is report­ing that The Cen­tral Local Board of Edu­ca­tion has decided to put off until Sep­tem­ber of 2014 any vote on whether to build …

Some coun­ter­feit bills have been show­ing up in area banks and busi­nesses recently. Defi­ance Police have inves­ti­gated mul­ti­ple reports of coun­ter­feit $20 bills. Busi­nesses in Pauld­ing County were also alerted recently of cir­cu­lat­ing coun­ter­feit bills after sev­eral busi­ness, par­tic­u­larly gas sta­tions, reported them. Mid­west Com­mu­nity Fed­eral Credit Union has reported …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol says a Hicksville man was badly hurt in a two-vehicle col­li­sion Tues­day after­noon in Defi­ance County. It hap­pened around 3:30pm at Cicero and Arrow­smith roads in Mil­ford Town­ship. A 2012 Ford Mus­tang head­ing east on Arrow­smith Road ran a stop sign and col­lided with a …

A num­ber of indict­ments were handed down Tues­day by a Williams County Grand Jury. Among those indicted was a man who recently moved here. 22 year old Travis Hicks had been liv­ing in Texas, but in August moved into a home on County Road 17 belong­ing to his friend, 55 …

It’s not the Fourth of July, but there will be some fire­works tonight any­way in Bryan. The Bryan Times is report­ing that Bryan Mayor Doug John­son told the Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs on Tues­day that the city of Bryan will be test­ing small-shell fire­works in Bryan’s Recre­ation Park at …