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Stryker Police Chief Steve Schlosser, already sen­tenced in court, received addi­tional dis­ci­pline from vil­lage coun­cil at their meet­ing Mon­day for his involve­ment in the killing of stray cats. The chief had been fined $500 plus court costs after plead­ing no con­test to a first-degree mis­de­meanor May 24. Yes­ter­day, Stryker Vil­lage …

Fire severely dam­aged an Edger­ton home Mon­day morn­ing The blaze started just before 6am at 02867 County Road 6. The home was a total loss at an esti­mated $100,000. The Bryan Times reports that the build­ing was insured, but the renters were not. No one was injured. Julio Machado and …

The Bryan City Schools dis­trict is look­ing at a 7.45-mill, 28-year bond issue to con­sol­i­date all its stu­dents at one site. The Bryan Times reports that the board reached that deci­sion fol­low­ing Mon­day evening’s pub­lic forum. The bond issue would fund the local share, which would in turn, be sup­ple­mented …

This week’s Bryan City Band con­cert is being held in honor of the late John Hartman’s 100th birth­day. Hart­man directed the band from 1962 until he retired in 2009. Hart­man died last Novem­ber 8th. Band offi­cials say the con­cert will begin at 8 p.m. Wednes­day on the square. In the …

Mid­west Com­mu­nity Fed­eral Credit Union says four new accounts have been opened with fraud­u­lent checks. All of the newly opened accounts were opened with new Ohio non dri­ver IDs and fraud­u­lent pay­roll checks from known local busi­nesses. The checks were drawn off of Chase and Bank of Amer­ica and were …

Sev­eral arrests were made over the past few days by Bryan Police. On Thurs­day, Bryan Police arrested 33 year old Michael Kennedy of North Allen Street in Bryan on a bench war­rant out of Defi­ance County for fail­ure to appear. He was taken to CCNO. Then on Fri­day, Bryan Police …

A lot of meet­ings are sched­uled for today. Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage Coun­cil will meet in reg­u­lar ses­sion at 7:30 p.m. today in the police depart­ment meet­ing room. The Williams Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Williams County Agri­cul­ture Ser­vices Meet­ing Room in Bryan. The …

All res­i­dents from Lake­land Nurs­ing and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter in Angola had to be evac­u­ated due to an attic fire. The elec­tri­cal fire that started at about 10:20 p.m. Fri­day night was in the orig­i­nal wing of the facil­ity, above the office area. It’s hoped that all res­i­dents will be back …

Excit­ing things are hap­pen­ing at Inde­pen­dence Dam State Park east of Defi­ance this sum­mer. Ren­o­va­tion of the marina park­ing lot and plan­ning of new activ­i­ties for vis­i­tors are in progress, and park offi­cials are get­ting camp­ing sites started up again, bring­ing bald eagles to the park from a reha­bil­i­ta­tion facil­ity …

A McClure man sus­tained seri­ous injuries early Sat­ur­day morn­ing when his motor­cy­cle col­lided with a deer near in Henry County. 57 year old Leonel Sifuentes of McClure was taken by air ambu­lance to the Uni­ver­sity of Toledo Med­ical Cen­ter for treat­ment. The Henry County Sheriff’s Office reports that Sifuentes was …