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The Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion has released grades for Ohio’s Career Tech­ni­cal Schools and the news was good news for Four County Career Cen­ter. The Bryan Times reports that Four County Career Cen­ter, serv­ing 22 asso­ciate schools in the four-county area, was one of only eight career tech­ni­cal schools in …

The Edger­ton Board of Edu­ca­tion held their monthly meet­ing Tues­day evening. The board kicked off last night’s meet­ing with a tour of the old mid­dle school build­ing. Super­in­ten­dent Andy Morr showed the board the lat­est improve­ments, includ­ing a coat of paint, new floor­ing in place of old car­pet and a …

In the Edon School Dis­trict, the board there dis­cussed the dif­fi­culty of trans­port­ing some stu­dents to and from school at Tuesday’s school board meet­ing. The Edon North­west Local Board of Edu­ca­tion approved a res­o­lu­tion to declare trans­porta­tion imprac­ti­cal for cer­tain iden­ti­fied stu­dents at last night’s board meet­ing. The Bryan Times …

The Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage Exempted Schools Board of Edu­ca­tion on Tues­day learned that the school has been awarded a $9,000 grant for two fac­ulty mem­bers to attend a lead­er­ship acad­emy in Colum­bus. In other busi­ness, the school board accepted over $8,000 in dona­tions — includ­ing $6,000 from the ath­letic boost­ers to …

The Defi­ance County Regional Air­port Author­ity will soon be handed more than $300,000 fed­eral funds to com­plete improve­ments. It was announced on Mon­day that the Fed­eral Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion has awarded $344,781 to the Defi­ance Air­port Author­ity and the Defi­ance County com­mis­sion­ers. The funds will be used to install a new …

An Edger­ton man was still listed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion Mon­day after he was involved in a motor­cy­cle acci­dent on Sat­ur­day. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office says Sat­ur­day around 1PM, 53 year old Thomas Brodock was dri­ving a motor­cy­cle on Indi­ana 120 near Clear Lake, when he ran off the road­way …

Mont­pe­lier res­i­dents could soon be look­ing at increases in their water and sewer bills. The Vil­lage Coun­cil held the first read­ing of two ordi­nances to raise the ser­vice charge on both bills at Monday’s meet­ing. Under the pro­posed ordi­nance, the cost for usage would not rise, but the ser­vice charge …

The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio has launched a new Com­mu­nity Ser­vice Work Pro­gram. Offi­cials say it’s a test pro­gram. Each mem­ber of the work detail has been con­victed of a non-violent felony and sen­tenced through the Williams County Court of Com­mon Pleas, but they are not prison inmates. They …

The ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal will offer free skin can­cer screen­ings on Fri­day, Sept. 20, by appoint­ment only. Screen­ings take approx­i­mately 10–15 min­utes, and include a skin exam, edu­ca­tion, and follow-up sup­port. Appoint­ments are lim­ited. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 419–783-6911. The Defi­ance County Health Depart­ment will hold its “Know …

A man from Wauseon has been con­victed in Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court, of sex­ual offenses involv­ing a vic­tim under the age of 13. 32 year old Justin Smith was found guilty of two counts of Gross Sex­ual Impo­si­tion. Smith was sen­tenced to 30 months in prison, and he was …