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A cou­ple of arrests were made this week by Bryan Police. On Wednes­day after­noon, 23 year old Chad Hale of Mont­pe­lier was picked up by Bryan Police for crim­i­nal tres­pass. Hale was released. Also on Wednes­day, at just after 7pm, 24 year old Cameron Con­rad of Mont­pe­lier was arrested for …

The Spe­cial Response Team at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio in Stryker recently did a tac­ti­cal assess­ment of the cam­pus at North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege in Arch­bold. The jail’s tac­ti­cal unit, which is more like a SWAT team, spe­cial­izes in crowd con­trol, hostage nego­ti­a­tions and use of force. CCNO …

There’s a new prinic­pal at Antwerp Local Schools. On Thurs­day, the district’s board of edu­ca­tion approved a three year con­tract for Pauld­ing High School grad­u­ate and cur­rent mid­dle school sci­ence teacher at Cen­tral Local Schools, Tim Manz. Manz has an under­grad­u­ate degree from Defi­ance Col­lege and master’s degree from Bowl­ing …

A ten­ta­tive set­tle­ment has been apparet­ntly reached on the emi­nent domain peti­tion filed last fall in Henry County Com­mon Pleas Court by Napoleon Area Schools Board of Edu­ca­tion. The peti­tion involved 56.266 acres located off West­more­land Street in Napoleon across from the high school stu­dent park­ing lot. Details of the …

Seems peo­ple in our area were more giv­ing last year. Reports say that char­i­ta­ble giv­ing is on the rebound nation­ally and right here locally. Accord­ing to an annual report by the Giv­ing USA Foun­da­tion and Indi­ana University’s Lilly Fam­ily School of Phil­an­thropy, char­i­ta­ble dona­tions nation­ally were up 3.5 per­cent in …

CCNO’s pop­u­la­tion was slightly down. That news high­lighted Wednesday’s meet­ing of the Cor­rec­tions Com­mis­sion of North­west Ohio. CCNO Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Jim Den­nis said Wednesday’s inmate pop­u­la­tion stood at 570 or 89 per­cent. The pop­u­la­tion aver­aged 583 or 91 per­cent in April and stood at 593 or 93 per­cent in May. …

The Postal Reform Act of 2013 is on the way, and once it becomes law, the days of postal car­ri­ers walk­ing door-to-door will be over. The Con­gres­sional act man­dates Post Offices use “the most cost effec­tive pri­mary mode of mail deliv­ery pos­si­ble,” specif­i­cally phas­ing out “to the door” deliv­ery in …

Jesus Christ Super­star” will be per­formed at Father John’s this week­end. The Bryan Times reports it will be a ben­e­fit per­for­mance, with free-will offer­ings col­lected at the door and all pro­ceeds split evenly among the county’s four nurs­ing home activ­ity funds. Father John’s used to be a Bap­tist church. John …

A let­ter sent by Defi­ance City Hall to a num­ber of prop­erty own­ers forc­ing pos­si­ble annex­a­tion was the topic of dis­cus­sion at a meet­ing Tues­day night. Coun­cil­man David Plant expressed his con­cern about the let­ter dur­ing council’s reg­u­lar meet­ing. The let­ter Plant ref­er­enced to was dated June 6 and signed …

Two blood dri­ves are being held in Put­nam County this week. One is going on today from noon-6 p.m. at the Glan­dorf Rod and Gun Club on County Road 11 in Ottawa. The sec­ond blood drive will be on Sat­ur­day from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. at Ottawa Chevro­let on N. …