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There were two guest speak­ers at Tuesday’s Pio­neer Coun­cil meet­ing. Dawn Bald­win, direc­tor of emer­gency ser­vices for Williams County, and Rick Fair­banks, elec­tric super­vi­sor for the town spoke to coun­cil mem­bers. Fair­banks, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, is due to retire in Jan­u­ary, leav­ing the town with two line­man. Fair­banks …

A Williams County Grand Jury handed down 14 indict­ments yes­ter­day, includ­ing three secret indict­ments. Accord­ing to the court order, “The par­ties have not been arrested, and until they are, their cases are not to appear upon the appear­ance docket, nor upon the trial docket, nor oth­er­wise made pub­lic.“ As the …

A vehi­cle dam­aged one of the new gate­way pil­lars at Pon­tiac Park in Defi­ance Tues­day morn­ing when it rolled down the hill. Defi­ance Police say just after 3:30am, a vehi­cle owned by Kathy Miller of Web­ster St., which was parked at Cir­cle K, rolled down the incline of the park­ing …

The vil­lage of Edon now has some­thing unique… an armored vehi­cle. That’s right, Edon now has an armored truck. The truck came at no cost from the gov­ern­ment, but accord­ing to the Bryan Times, it did come with some con­tro­versy. At Mon­day night’s meet­ing, Edon Vil­lage Coun­cil was informed that …

The Bryan City Board of Edu­ca­tion on Mon­day, voted to offi­cially accept the Ohio School Facil­i­ties Commission’s con­di­tional award of $18.88 mil­lion which will go toward a new grade 6–12 school and remod­eled mid­dle school for grades pre-K-5. Now, the vot­ers will decide on Novem­ber 5th whether or not to …

Some good news Mon­day for the North Cen­tral Board of Edu­ca­tion regard­ing dis­trict finances. The five-year fore­cast was pre­sented and shows rev­enues exceed­ing expen­di­tures for the com­ing four years, with deficit spend­ing fore­cast in the fifth year, but with a car­ry­over bal­ance. School offi­cials say it’s all because per­son­nel costs …

Good news for home­schooled stu­dents at Hill­top. Those stu­dents are now eli­gi­ble to par­tic­i­pate in extracur­ric­u­lar activ­i­ties. At Monday’s reg­u­lar meet­ing, the Millcreek-West Unity Board of Edu­ca­tion approved an amend­ment to the Hill­top High School and Junior High School’s student-athletic hand­book, which will also apply to all applic­a­ble Millcreek-West Unity …

The power was out for some cus­tomers in our area over this past week­end. Toledo Edi­son says more than 7,000 cus­tomers from the Defiance-Holgate areas were with­out power Sun­day evening due to an equip­ment fail­ure. It hap­pened around 7 p.m. when an insu­la­tor failed at the Rich­land sub­sta­tion along U.S. …

Bryan Police say that on Sat­ur­day, Sarah G. Rroz of Bryan, was arrested for OVI and Speed. She was released. Also, on Sat­ur­day, Holly Kast of Bryan, was arrested for Abuse of Harm­ful Intox­i­cants. She was served with her charge and released; Don Shan­non of Bryan, was arrested for Abuse …

With equal empha­sis on the rewards com­ing with new inter­ests and the know-how to unlock skills for every­day use of dig­i­tal, hand– held devices like smart­phones and dig­i­tal cam­eras, Sem­i­nar Fifty at the Cen­ter for Life­long Learn­ing offers area adults 55 plus an unusual oppor­tu­nity on Sep­tem­ber 27. In the …