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Sev­eral Cub Scout packs and troops will be in area gro­cery stores this com­ing week­end ask­ing for dona­tions of food to local food pantries. Chief Super­mar­kets in Defi­ance and Wauseon will have grab bags avail­able for $5 which will con­tain a tube of tooth­paste, a bot­tle of sham­poo, a can …

An attor­ney for a Put­nam County teen who has been charged with the deaths of two Ottawa broth­ers has filed a motion to exclude media from cov­er­ing the court hear­ing. The court-appointed attor­ney for 17 year old Michael Fay filed a motion in Put­nam County Juve­nile Court to exclude media …

A single-vehicle crash Mon­day morn­ing claimed the life of a Pio­neer man. The Ohio State High­way Patrol reports that 20 year old Kaleb McLaugh­lin, a pas­sen­ger in a pickup truck dri­ven by 20 year old Mer­cedez Lloyd, also of Pio­neer was killed when the truck ran off County Road 16 …

The Williams County Board of Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties rec­om­mended a num­ber of items, includ­ing a rec­om­men­da­tion for higher pay for union mem­bers, dur­ing their reg­u­lar meet­ing Mon­day at the Enrich­ment Cen­ter. The Bryan Times reports that fol­low­ing an exec­u­tive ses­sion to dis­cuss a col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agree­ment, the board voted to rec­om­mend …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion says that effec­tive imme­di­ately and through July, TR 65, between CR 13 and CR 15 is closed for cul­vert replace­ment. Also, Begin­ning Mon­day July 8 through the end of July, U.S. 20A, between CR O and the Ohio Turn­pike will be closed for cul­vert replace­ment. …

The Wauseon Ele­men­tary School has a new prinic­pal. Theresa Viet­meier, for­merly a Wauseon Ele­men­tary School music teacher, was cho­sen Mon­day night by the Wauseon Exempted Vil­lage Board of Edu­ca­tion as the building’s new prin­ci­pal. Viet­meier begins her new job effec­tive Aug. 1, replac­ing David Burk­holder, who resigned. Viet­meier received her …

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, …