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The Edger­ton Board of Edu­ca­tion wrapped up the year’s busi­ness at their meet­ing Mon­day night. Sev­eral staff posi­tions were filled, and the board approved pol­icy man­ual updates as pre­sented at the Novem­ber meet­ing. They then set Mon­day, Jan. 6th at 7 p.m. as the orga­ni­za­tional meet­ing for the board, with …

It’s a busy place… The Defi­ance com­post site closed for the sea­son last month, but is sure did get plenty of use this year. The site, which is open three days a week for about eight months annu­ally, closed for the year on Nov. 26. It’s planned to open again …

The trial of 40 year old Daniel Bignell Jr. got under­way Mon­day in the Williams County Court of Com­mon Pleas. Bignell is accused of five counts of rape, two counts of attempted rape, four counts of gross sex­ual impo­si­tion, and three counts of kid­nap­ping. His alleged vic­tims were all under­age …

An Angola man now faces mul­ti­ple charges con­nected to an alleged sex­ual assault. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment reports the arrest of 27 year old Kile Stock­ert, who is fac­ing up to six felony charges. Inves­ti­ga­tors say early Sun­day morn­ing, a 26-year old woman claimed she was sex­u­ally assaulted. She …

A Mont­pe­lier woman is get­ting national atten­tion… from the NRA. Phyl­lis Her­ring­ton has been named recip­i­ent of this year’s Mar­ion P. Ham­mer Woman of Dis­tinc­tion Award by the National Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion. This award is named after the first woman pres­i­dent of the NRA. Her­ring­ton has worked at the Camp Perry …

North­west Town­ship has issued a press release regard­ing snow poli­cies. Accord­ing to the release, only mail­boxes that have actu­ally been hit by a town­ship truck or plow will be repaired or replaced by the town­ship. Repair of mail­boxes dam­aged by fly­ing snow or slush dur­ing plow­ing will be the owner’s …

A pro­posal now being con­sid­ered in Wash­ing­ton which would decrease the amount of ethanol in the nation’s fuel sup­ply has once again heated debates about ethanol across the nation and here in our area too. The Renew­able Fuel Stan­dard was cre­ated under the Energy Pol­icy Act of 2005. In 2007, …

Lib­erty Cen­ter Local Board of Edu­ca­tion will hold a spe­cial meet­ing this evening at 6:30 to decide the site of the pro­posed new pre-kindergarten through grade 12 school. So far, the board’s site dis­cus­sions have cen­tered on two major options — Option Black, a one-story build­ing located on an unde­ter­mined …

Bryan Police report that on Fri­day after­noon, they arrested 42 year old Rod­ney R. Walker and charged him with hav­ing an Open Con­tainer and Dis­or­derly Con­duct. Walker was locked up in CCNO. Also on Fri­day, Bryan Police arrested 18 year old Cia­r­ria Mahaf­fey of Cherry Street in Bryan on a …

It’s gonna be a big week­end in our area for Christ­mas parades… Santa will be in Defi­ance today, in Napoleon’s Christ­mas parade on Sat­ur­day morn­ing and in Hicksville’s parade Sat­ur­day after­noon. Santa is all set to touch­down in down­town Defi­ance this after­noon start­ing at 4 with spe­cial events hap­pen­ing in …