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The Wauseon High School march­ing band per­formed recently at the Colum­bus Grove “Eyes With Pride” band com­pe­ti­tion, and has earned a spot at the state march­ing band finals. Wauseon fin­ished sec­ond out of 13 bands at “Eyes With Pride” last Sat­ure­day, and was one of four bands to receive a …

Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties is cel­e­brat­ing Pub­lic Power Week, Oct. 6 — 12, along with more than 2,000 other community-owned elec­tric util­i­ties across the U.S. that pro­vide elec­tric­ity on a not-for-profit basis. To cel­e­brate Pub­lic Power Week, Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties is invit­ing com­mu­nity mem­bers to attend an Open House at their …

Absen­tee and early bal­lots are now avail­able at the Williams County Board of Elec­tions Office for the Novem­ber 5th Gen­eral Elec­tion. The dead­line for reg­is­tered vot­ers to vote in per­son at the board office is Fri­day, Novem­ber 1st at 4:30PM. Office hours are Mon­day through Fri­day from 8:30am till 4:30pm. …

A new super­in­ten­dent for Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties… The Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs announced on Tues­day that it has voted to appoint Al Sul­li­van the new elec­tric super­in­ten­dent, replac­ing Brian Car­lin who is now util­i­ties direc­tor. Sul­li­van is cur­rently the engi­neer­ing super­vi­sor. He begins in his new posi­tion on Octo­ber …

Bryan Police are hop­ing to wind up their inves­ti­ga­tion into the death of 91 year old Grace Kennedy with­ing the next thirty days. Kennedy was found dead in her Bryan home on Dec. 23, 2009. A few days later, on Jan. 15, 2010, the Williams County Coro­ner ruled the woman’s …

The Henry County Health Depart­ment is hold­ing a com­mu­nity flu clinic today from 3–6 p.m. at the Henry County Emer­gency Oper­a­tions Cen­ter in Napoleon. It’s con­ve­niently located right next door to the health depart­ment. It’s a one-day clinic, today only, and is lim­ited to adults 19 years of age and …

A rally was held Mon­day at the Arts and Edu­ca­tion Cen­ter audi­to­rium in Bryan to remind sup­port­ers there’s plenty of work to be done if the 7.45-mill bond issue for the pro­posed new school project is to pass on Nov. 5th and also to remind vot­ers that early vot­ing begins …

The Ohio High­way Patrol’s Defi­ance post is inves­ti­gat­ing a crash involv­ing two pedes­tri­ans that occurred Mon­day morn­ing on Open­lan­der Road. Accord­ing to the patrol, a vehi­cle described as “pos­si­bly being a white pick-up truck” went off of the right side of the road­way and hit the two pedes­tri­ans and a …

The Defi­ance County Health Depart­ment is plan­ning to con­duct its mass flu vac­ci­na­tion. The goal is to immu­nize all of Defi­ance County within 24 hours. The flu vac­ci­na­tion will be held Thurs­day at the Defi­ance High School from 4:30–6:30 p.m. The health depart­ment encour­ages the com­mu­nity to view its web­site …

The annual fall curb­side pickup in the city of Napoleon is now being held. Napoleon res­i­dents should have mate­ri­als at the curb by 7am, on their day of pickup if they want them to dis­ap­pear. Mate­ri­als should be kept dry, and no con­tain­ers larger than 30 gal­lons or 50 pounds …