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The Ohio Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency says it has dis­cov­ered E. coli in an area water­way. The Agency says the bug was found in Mill Creek, and the county has 30 days to cre­ate a plan to address it. The EPA reports that it col­lected three sam­ples, one on June 25, another on …

Offi­cials report that over­all atten­dance was up at the gates, but not at the events dur­ing the recent 136th Annual Defi­ance County Fair. Truck pulls and har­ness rac­ing had good turnouts, even despite the rain on Thurs­day. Unfor­tu­nately, two other events fell short. Come­dian Gallagher’s “Last Smash Tour” before his …

Fam­ily and friends now have a new process to visit those incar­cer­ated at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. Video vis­i­ta­tion was recently imple­mented, allow­ing the vis­i­tor to sched­ule vis­its on line as well as sched­ule an off-site visit via web cam­era. Under the new pro­ce­dure, the vis­i­tor will now …

Bryan Police say they arrested a 20 year old Fort Wayne man Sun­day for under­age drink­ing. Travis Oxley also was wanted on a war­rant out of Defi­ance Munic­i­pal Court. He was locked up at CCNO. Also arrested on Sun­day was 19 year old Sean Crocker of Bryan. Crocker was charged …

Defi­ance vot­ers will be asked to approve a bal­lot issue on Nov. 5 that would increase the munic­i­pal income tax from 1.5 per­cent to 1.8 per­cent. The 0.3 per­cent increase would be used to sup­port police and fire ser­vices only, whose bud­gets (total­ing $4.4 mil­lion) appear in the city’s $9.2 …

The Defi­ance City Schools Board of Edu­ca­tion will hold its reg­u­lar meet­ing on Mon­day at 7 p.m. at the city of Defi­ance com­mu­nity room to dis­cuss busi­ness and to enter into exec­u­tive ses­sion if needed.

U.S. Con­gress­man Bob Latta spoke to Farm Bureau mem­bers at their annual meet­ing Thurs­day evening. The Bryan Times reports that Latta spoke about con­gress and what they are try­ing to accom­plish before the end of the year. He those in atten­dance that the Farm Bill has to be passed or …

North­west State Com­mu­nity College’s new $300,000 / 10,000 square foot nurs­ing lab was ded­i­cated Thurs­day evening on the sec­ond floor of the cam­pus’ Allied Health and Pub­lic Ser­vices Build­ing. Col­lege offi­cials say the new lab will help con­tinue to pro­vide qual­ity reg­is­tered nurses and licensed prac­ti­cal nurses for all of …

The deputy direc­tor of Williams County Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency and 911 Com­mu­ni­ca­tions cen­ter, spoke with West Unity vil­lage coun­cil Thurs­day night about the county’s 2013 Haz­ard Mit­i­ga­tion plan. The Bryan Times reports that after a required five-year review, the plan has been adopted by the county com­mis­sion­ers. It now needs …

The Williams County Democ­rats will hold their annual Sum­mer Pic­nic and Rally this Sun­day at Garver Park’s Rotary Pavil­ion in Bryan, from 2 to 5 p.m. The rally this year will fea­ture an appear­ance by spe­cial guest, Demo­c­ra­tic guber­na­to­r­ial can­di­date Ed FitzGer­ald. He’s due to speak to those attend­ing at …