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Angola Police arrested a LaGrange man for dri­ving a car after his license had been sus­pended for life. 36-year-old Leroy Titus III was pulled over after an offi­cer noticed he had plates which expired last Decem­ber. Titus told the offi­cer that the vehi­cle was not his and he did not …

If it is approved on the bal­lot, another Williams County dis­trict will have a new school. The Bryan Times reports that North Cen­tral Local Schools is ask­ing vot­ers to approve a 1.4-mill levy for 37 years to pay for a new high school that would con­nect to the junior high …

About 300 Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties cus­tomers lost power Tues­day evening. Bryan Munic­pal Util­i­ties reports that at about 7:30 last evening, power was lost on the main feeder out of the Daggett sub­sta­tion. Two elec­tric crews were called to make the repair. They found a bad insu­la­tor on County Road 16 …

It must finally be spring! Well, almost… The 2014 Farm­ers Mar­ket sea­son will open on May 22 on the north side of the cour­t­house square in Bryan. This year’s mar­ket will run until dusk and resume again at 7 a.m. Tues­day morn­ing, May 27, and run till noon. The mar­ket …

A stu­dent dri­ver and his instruc­tor ran a stop sign at an inter­sec­tion on Mon­day near Water­ville, and were hit by a mini­van. Both were killed in the crash. Police say the car made no attempt what­so­ever to stop, and was knocked off the road, then flipped over, and landed …

A man from Orland, Indi­ana is now dead after being injured Fri­day night in a Steuben County traf­fic acci­dent. 29-year-old Jeremy Maguire was flown to Parkview Regional Med­ical Cen­ter, where he later died. The Steuben County Sher­iffs Depart­ment says Maguire’s pickup truck went off of County Road 550 West near …

Gas prices are creep­ing closer to $4 a gal­lon, just as the sum­mer dri­ving sea­son is approach­ing. There was another spike of about 25 cents a gal­lon Tues­day. Prices in the Angola area hit $3.89 a gal­lon. Gas yes­ter­day was a slight bit cheaper in Ohio. Sta­tions in Edon and …

Some money is com­ing to Williams County to fund three com­mu­nity improve­ment projects this year. The county will be get­ting $73,600 in Com­mu­nity Devel­op­ment Block Grant fund­ing: The Bryan Times reports that the vil­lage of West Unity requested $20,000 to replace the floor of its com­mu­nity cen­ter. The vil­lage of …

Job­sO­hio reported Mon­day, that Unique-Chardan Inc. in Bryan will be expand­ing, adding 30 new jobs and retain­ing 52 oth­ers. Unique-Chardan is an advanced auto parts man­u­fac­turer, and was acquired ear­lier this year by Michigan-based Unique Fab­ri­cat­ing. Com­pany offi­cials had been con­sid­er­ing mov­ing oper­a­tions out of Ohio. Instead of relo­cat­ing though, …

The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity Exten­sion Ser­vice says we all should take a closer look at our water sup­plies. Accord­ing to the Ohio Depart­ment of Health and the Ohio Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, many peo­ple that live out­side of a rural water dis­trict or vil­lage, must rely on pri­vate wells for drink­ing …