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Pauld­ing County Com­mis­sioner Fred Pieper was appointed by the Gov­er­nor last week to the Ohio Advi­sory Coun­cil for the Aging. The board includes 12 mem­bers who are appointed along with four other indi­vid­u­als from leg­is­la­ture and state depart­ments of men­tal health, devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties, health and job and fam­ily ser­vice. Respon­si­bilites …

Bryan City Schools is host­ing a pub­lic meet­ing to dis­cuss school facilities.Info will be pre­sented on the school facil­ity mas­ter plan and there will be updated news from the Ohio School Facil­i­ties Commission.Meeting is Tues­day night at 7pm in Bryan Mid­dle School Commons.

A Hicksville man has been found guilty by a Defi­ance County jury of 10 child sex­ual abuse charges. The jury decided that 42 year old Jerry Stairhime was guilty of six counts of rape; three counts of gross sex­ual impo­si­tion; and one count of sex­ual impo­si­tion. Sen­tenc­ing is set for …

State author­i­ties are con­nect­ing the dots and link­ing a Bryan woman to Prof­itable Sun­rise — an inter­na­tional busi­ness under inves­ti­ga­tion as a pos­si­ble Ponzi scheme, although Nanci Jo Frazer is not named in a larger fed­eral inves­ti­ga­tion. On April 4, an injunc­tion was filed against Prof­itable Sun­rise, to which Frazer’s …

Ohio State High­way Patrol says there will be an OVI check­point in Wlliams County tonite. The loca­tion will be announced later today.

West Unity appar­ently will not be get­ting an on/off ramp to the Ohio Turn­pike. At Thursday’s vil­lage coun­cil meet­ing, a rejec­tion let­ter from the Ohio Turn­pike Com­mis­sion was read in which the com­mis­sion responded to a requested inter­change. The Bryan Times reports that an engi­neer indi­cated that the dis­tance between …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers on Thurs­day opened bids for 2013 road-repair sup­plies, tak­ing all bids under advise­ment. The com­mis­sion­ers also on Thurs­day, autho­rized a $499 pur­chase request from the county dog war­den for a new printer, and met with a res­i­dent of Bona Vista who requested an imme­di­ate, county-wide bark­ing dog …

A Defi­ance County jury on Thurs­day after­noon, found a Hicksville man guilty of 10 child sex­ual abuse charges. 42 year old Jerry Stairhime was con­victed of six counts of rape, three counts of gross sex­ual impo­si­tion and one count of sex­ual impo­si­tion. Sen­tenc­ing is now set for 1:30 p.m. next …

For­mer Henry County Com­mis­sioner Rich Myers has pleaded not guilty to charges relat­ing to the deliv­ery of an eco­nomic loan. Myers appeared in Henry County Com­mon Pleas Court before Put­nam County Judge Ran­dall Basinger where he pleaded not guilty to two counts of hav­ing an unlaw­ful inter­est in a pub­lic …

CCNO is over­crowded and deal­ing with over­crowd­ing was the main topic of con­ver­sa­tion at Wednesday’s meet­ing of the Cor­rec­tions Com­mis­sion of North­west Ohio. Wednesday’s inmate pop­u­la­tion stood at 582 or 91 per­cent. The pop­u­la­tion aver­aged 582 or 91 per­cent in Feb­ru­ary and stood at 585 or 92 per­cent in March. …