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In Stryker, four newly elected council members were sworn into office at Monday night’s meeting: • Michael Fox works for Promedica as a paramedic and is also an EMS first responder. • Richard Wityk is the commander of the American Legion in Stryker. • Robert Sperling is a maintenance supervisor …

Montpelier Village Council elected Dan Clum president Monday evening. Council also learned about a federal Community Development Block Grant and approved the purchase of three voltage regulators for the expansion of the airport substation. Council agreed to make the grant, worth $170,000, available to be used to upgrade and improve …

Influenza activity is now widespread in Ohio. The Ohio Department of Health says there are increasing reports of influenza-like illnesses in more than half the regions in the state. During this flu season, which started in October and likely will continue into spring, 833 influenza-associated hospitalizations have been reported to …

A manure dry­ing plant at 5C’s Farms in Hicksville was destroyed by flames Sat­ur­day morn­ing, but the manure wasn’t what burned. Instead, Edger­ton fire­fight­ers say it was toma­toes. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, fire­fight­ers say they had to wade through tomato peel­ings and seeds, which were as much as 6 …

United Way of Williams County orga­niz­ers now say that time to con­tribute to this year’s goal is grow­ing short. As of Fri­day, the cam­paign stood at 83.1, hav­ing raised $262,448.52 toward the $316,000 goal. Orga­niz­ers say they are in the final phase of the 2013 cam­paign and if you have …

The local chap­ter of the NAACP will hold a cel­e­bra­tion of Dr. Mar­tin Luther King Day next Mon­day, Jan. 20, at noon at the North­towne Mall, Defi­ance. There will be per­form­ing choirs, an MLK cake-cutting cer­e­mony, book dis­plays, video dis­plays and more. The event is open to the pub­lic. For …

The Lib­erty Cen­ter vil­lage coun­cil elected Terry Bow­ers as pres­i­dent for the new year. Com­mit­tee assign­ments were also made at last week’s orga­ni­za­tional meet­ing, with Bow­ers chair­ing the ceme­tery com­mit­tee. Brian Rogers will be the chair for the finance and zon­ing com­mit­tee. Roger Fisher is head of safety, and Den­nis …

Bryan police report the arrest of 26 year old Adam Cham­ber­lain of Bryan on a Bench War­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal court for fail­ure to appear for OVI and anti-noise peel­ing. He was taken to CCNO.

It’s that time of year again… The cook­ies are back! Girl Scouts through­out the region will be sell­ing cook­ies the next few weeks. As of Fri­day, Six kinds of cook­ies are avail­able this year: thin mints, samoas, taga­longs, do-si-dos, short­bread, and Savan­nah Smiles. Boxes this year will cost $5 each. …

After the record break­ing cold tem­per­a­tures, shel­ters through­out the area are in need of new sup­plies. The unprece­dented cold weather brought in unprece­dented num­bers of peo­ple need­ing shel­ter and that took a toll on sup­plies that are nor­mally stocked at shel­ters. Items needed are socks, shirts, blan­kets, and pants. Ear …