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A rally was held Mon­day at the Arts and Edu­ca­tion Cen­ter audi­to­rium in Bryan to remind sup­port­ers there’s plenty of work to be done if the 7.45-mill bond issue for the pro­posed new school project is to pass on Nov. 5th and also to remind vot­ers that early vot­ing begins …

The Ohio High­way Patrol’s Defi­ance post is inves­ti­gat­ing a crash involv­ing two pedes­tri­ans that occurred Mon­day morn­ing on Open­lan­der Road. Accord­ing to the patrol, a vehi­cle described as “pos­si­bly being a white pick-up truck” went off of the right side of the road­way and hit the two pedes­tri­ans and a …

The Defi­ance County Health Depart­ment is plan­ning to con­duct its mass flu vac­ci­na­tion. The goal is to immu­nize all of Defi­ance County within 24 hours. The flu vac­ci­na­tion will be held Thurs­day at the Defi­ance High School from 4:30–6:30 p.m. The health depart­ment encour­ages the com­mu­nity to view its web­site …

The annual fall curb­side pickup in the city of Napoleon is now being held. Napoleon res­i­dents should have mate­ri­als at the curb by 7am, on their day of pickup if they want them to dis­ap­pear. Mate­ri­als should be kept dry, and no con­tain­ers larger than 30 gal­lons or 50 pounds …

Bryan Police say 40 year old Joellen Pesse­fall of Bryan was arrested on Fri­day on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. She was taken to court, processed, and then released. Also on Fri­day, 38 year old Shan­non Hugg of Bryan was picked up on four out­stand­ing bench war­rants …

The Bryan Times this morn­ing is report­ing a story about a dog res­cue over the week­end. Dixie, an 11-year-old Lab-shepherd mix, along with another dog, ended up at the Rails to Trails foot­bridge that crosses Beaver Creek. Dixie appar­ently wan­dered, fell, or was knocked down the embank­ment and became trapped …

The Defi­ance State High­way Patrol Post is inves­ti­gat­ing a crash that occurred on Plat­ter Creek road, south of Jeri­cho road, in Defi­ance County. The crash occurred around 12:05 am Fri­day morn­ing. The dri­ver, 344 year old Jason Edds of Cecil, Ohio, was first taken by ambu­lance to the Defi­ance Regional …

Begin­ning Sun­day, dri­vers could legally drive 70 mph on the new U.S. 24 from Water­ville to just west of Napoleon. The new speed lim­its, effec­tive yes­ter­day, come fol­low­ing an over­haul of state high­way speed lim­its. The new speed limit applies to both cars and trucks, but in some cases the …

If you like ribs, then hope­fully you didn’t miss this past weekend’s Rib Fest in Defi­ance. Down­town Defi­ance was the place to be for rib-lovers dur­ing the city’s fifth annual rib fest on Sat­ur­day. Saturday’s fes­ti­val was spon­sored by The State Bank and Gen­eral Motors, and fea­tured local food ven­dors …

Bryan Police report the sev­eral arrests from Thurs­day… 28 year old Tiffany Risk of Mont­pe­lier was arrested for shoplift­ing. Risk was turned over to West Unity Police, who were hold­ing two war­rants on her at the time of that arrest. 32 year old Troy Ward of Bryan was arrested and …