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The North­west­ern Ohio Com­mu­nity Action Com­mis­sion will be accept­ing appli­ca­tions for the HEAP Sum­mer Cool­ing pro­gram start­ing July 1, and con­tin­u­ing through August 31. Assis­tance with a pay­ment of an elec­tric bill and/or dis­tri­b­u­tion of a free air con­di­tioner will be pro­vided. To qual­ify, a per­son must be within 175 …

Bryan police report a drug arrest in Bryan. Just after mid­night Mon­day morn­ing, police arrested 20 year old Andrew Shirkey of Atlanta, Geor­gia. Shirkey was cited for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana and paraphernalia.

The Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs has named BMU Elec­tric Super­in­ten­dent Brian Car­lin as the new Direc­tor of Util­i­ties. Car­lin replaces Steve Case­bere, who recently announced his retire­ment. Car­lin takes the job with more than 23 years of expe­ri­ence in the util­ity indus­try. He started in the cable indus­try and …

The name of the vic­tim of a fatal crash last week has been released. The State High­way Patrol said Sun­day that 27 year old Cody Dou­glass of Pio­neer died in a crash Wednes­day on U.S. 20 just east of the Indi­ana state line. Dou­glass was pro­nounced dead at the scene, …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol at Defi­ance reports a two-vehicle injury crash Sun­day morn­ing on U.S. 127 just north of West Unity. Police say a car dri­ven by 78 year old Mary Ran­dall of Fayette col­lided with another vehi­cle dri­ven by 76 year old Myr­tle Vanars­dalen of West Unity. Ran­dall …

A total of $170,000 was raised by The 8th annual ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal Pro-Am golf tour­na­ment Fri­day at the Eagle Rock Golf Club in Defi­ance. $55,000 of that money was raised on Thurs­day evening at the Pro-Am din­ner and auc­tion. All the money raised will go to Kaitlyn’s Cot­tage …

The Defi­ance County Health Depart­ment will give immu­niza­tions at the Hicksville Com­mu­nity Center,Main Street in Hicksville, on Tues­day from 10 a.m.-noon. and from 1:30–5 p.m. For more infor­ma­tion, call the health depart­ment at 419–784-3818 or go to its web­site at www.defiancecohealth.org.

The Bryan Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment plans to offer a basic dog obe­di­ence class for dogs 5 months and older. The class will be lim­ited to eight peo­ple along with their dogs and will be held on four con­sec­u­tive Sat­ur­days, begin­ning on Sat­ur­day, July 13. Instruc­tor Amy Sny­der will hold …

A Ful­ton County grand jury indicted nine peo­ple this week, includ­ing one per­son from Williams County. 19 year old Rus­sell L. Cain IV of Bryan was indicted on one count each of pos­ses­sion of heroin, and traf­fick­ing in heroin and attempted tam­per­ing with evi­dence. Pros­e­cu­tors allege that on June 6, …

Defi­ance County com­mis­sion­ers are sched­uled to meet today. They have a num­ber of items on the agenda. Fol­low­ing gen­eral ses­sion, the com­mis­sion­ers will be meet­ing with county eco­nomic devel­op­ment direc­tor Jerry Hayes. They also plan to dis­cuss the cour­t­house project and receive an update from the County Recorder.