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In Hol­gate, vil­lage lead­ers have approved some changes to the vil­lage tree ordi­nance. The vil­lage will no longer plant trees in the right-of-way of any plot­ted street. Res­i­dents who want to plant a tree in the right-of-way in front of their res­i­dence may do so, but first they need a …

Find­lay res­i­dents employed out­side the city won’t be receiv­ing a munic­i­pal income tax credit. On Tues­day, Find­lay City Coun­cil dis­cussed the tax credit idea with coun­cil mem­bers dis­miss­ing it as fis­cally risky and fun­da­men­tally unfair. Offer­ing a credit for Find­lay res­i­dents who work out­side of the city, and pay another …

In a recent update from Palmer Energy, the Henry County Com­mis­sion­ers were told that the first two floors in the Henry County Cour­t­house have been fit­ted with sen­sors to help con­trol heat­ing and air con­di­tion­ing, as part of an energy upgrade. The con­trols also help the main­te­nance depart­ment more eas­ily …

Edger­ton Coun­cil met Tues­day and adopted an appro­pri­a­tions bud­get for this year, which includes vil­lage expen­di­tures of $5,878,717. The largest appro­pri­a­tions were $892,129 to the gen­eral fund; $226,515 for street main­te­nance; $293,150 for fire expenses; $325,655 to the water fund; and $2,873,246 to the elec­tric fund. The Bryan Times reports …

A new ambu­lance is on the way to the Williams County Emer­gency Med­ical Ser­vice. Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers on Mon­day voted to approve spend­ing $155,612 for a 2014 Chevrolet/GMC G4500 diesel ambu­lance. The order for the new ambu­lance is being placed, and the expected deliv­ery date is on or around August …

Flames dam­aged a Bryan home on Sun­day to the tune of about $80,000. The call came in just after 5 Sun­day after­noon when some­one pass­ing by the house on County Road 15 noticed smoke com­ing from the attic. Fire­fight­ers report that strong winds on Sun­day made the fire dif­fi­cult to …

After being dis­abled by a cut tele­phone cable, the Put­nam County 911 sys­tem is now once again, fully oper­a­tional. It was on Mon­day that we told you that the Put­nam County Sheriff’s Office said that some peo­ple were not able to call 911 due to a tele­phone line being cut. …

Some­body really did lose their mar­bles on Mon­day… The Cres­cent News reports that thou­sands of fiber­glass mar­bles spilled onto the road­way Mon­day morn­ing just after 10:30 in Defi­ance on Ottawa Avenue near Colum­bus Avenue. A con­tainer of mar­bles fell off the flatbed of a Thomas Keller Truck­ing semi dri­ven by …

Sauder Wood­work­ing Co. of Arch­bold, which has been mak­ing prod­ucts for Ikea’s Amer­i­can sub­sidiary since 2007, has been awarded a new five-year con­tract by Ikea, the Swedish home fur­nish­ings retailer, that could cre­ate between 150 to 250 new jobs at the Ful­ton County plant. Sauder Wood­work­ing will sup­ply Ikea with …

Two north­west Indi­ana men were arrested Mon­day night after state troop­ers found rolls of cop­per wire and wire cut­ters in the truck they were dri­ving in the area of Inter­state 69 and Indi­ana 8 near Auburn. The offi­cers found 10 rolls of insu­lated cop­per wire in the bed of the …