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A Hicksville man was sen­tenced Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court to 6 years in prison after he entered a guilty plea to a bur­glary charge. 23-year-old Jason Steck­ley was also placed on pro­ba­tion for two years, after hav­ing two years of his sen­tence sus­pended. Steck­ley will also have to pay …

Tomor­row is the big day… It’s grad­u­a­tion day for 405 stu­dents at North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege. The com­mence­ment cer­e­mony is set to get under­way at 2pm Sat­ur­day, just north of the atrium. The keynote speaker will be Christina Keller, pres­i­dent of CK Tech­nolo­gies. As of now, the pro­gram is sched­uled …

It’s Moth­ers Day Week­end, and the Hicksville Beau­ti­fi­ca­tion Com­mit­tee is hold­ing the annual Mother’s Day plant sale today until 6 p.m. and tomor­row from 9 a.m.-1 p.m at the Hicksville Town­ship build­ing, right across from the school. Annu­als and peren­ni­als are being sold in flats, indi­vid­ual pots, hang­ing bas­kets and …

The Bryan Amvets Post 54 will be pre­sent­ing Wounded War­rior Ben­e­fit Con­cert this Sat­ur­day from 8 p.m. until mid­night at the post. There will be live per­for­mances by local musi­cians: Earl P and Fam­ily Tree, Doug Stayner, Brian King, Jeff Mont­gomery, Dude McDon­ald, Aaron Mar­tinez, Debra Keller, Tommy Schilt and …

Police say a vehi­cle crashed into a house and garage in Pauld­ing. Accord­ing to a news release from the Pauld­ing County Sher­iff, it hap­pened Mon­day after­noon on Wayne Street, when a vehi­cle dri­ven by 48 year old Miles Goings of Pauld­ing ran off the road and hit a fence and …

Six peo­ple were hurt in a two vehi­cle crash Tues­day morn­ing on U.S. 24. Ohio High­way Patrol troop­ers say it hap­pened Tues­day morn­ing around 10 at the inter­sec­tion of US 24 and Inde­pen­dence Road in Defi­ance County. 77 year old John Davis of Defi­ance was north­bound on Inde­pen­dence Road accord­ing …

Now THIS is going to be an auc­tion! Auc­tions America’s Auburn Spring sale will include roughly 450 cars at no reserve from the John Scotti col­lec­tion from Mon­treal, Canada. The auc­tion runs today through Sat­ur­day at the Auburn Auc­tion Park in Auburn, IN. The col­lec­tion of cars tends toward Amer­i­can …

Bryan city vot­ers approved the renewal of the city’s one-half per­cent income tax. The levy passed with 622 votes in favor of the tax, and 277 against, how­ever those results are still unof­fi­cial. Mayor Doug John­son, after the final results were posted, told the Bryan Times that there will be …

Jason Rockey lost his bid to replace 81st House Dis­trict Rep. Lynn Wacht­mann in the Novem­ber gen­eral elec­tion to Robert McCol­ley of Napoleon. In the State Sen­ate First Dis­trict race, incum­bent Cliff Hite won Williams County and the state. In the Repub­li­can State Cen­tral Com­mit­tee men’s 1st Dis­trict race, James …

The Defi­ance County Board of Elec­tions reports that the Defi­ance City School District’s $11,714,657 bond issue to build new mid­dle school and high school build­ings passed 1,802 votes (56.29 per­cent) to 1,399 (43.71 per­cent). Again, all results are unof­fi­cial until finalized.