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Parts of Bryan Municipal Utilities’ budget performed better than expected in 2021, but with the market still in flux, BMU is keeping its financial expectations for 2022 modest. BMU Director of Utilities, Nathan Gardner and BMU department heads presented their proposed annual budget to the Bryan Board of Public Affairs, …

The Williams County Land Bank, is putting 17 parcels of land in the county on the auction block. The parcels are for sale to the highest bidder by sealed bid. To submit a bid…go online…download and complete the attached sealed bid agreement form. Mail or deliver the completed form to …

Firefighters are dispatched to Wick’s Par-T-Pak in Bryan for a fire, but no significant damage was reported. Someone smelled smoke at the West High St. location…and called 911. The fire team quickly puts it out. Officials say some of the lighting fixtures in the place went up.

In a Williams County courtroom…Cody Jondreau will serve a minimum 29 years in prison for the murder of his infant son Alexander, who died as the result of abuse on Sept. 11, 2020. We reported Jondreau, 26, fled from the state before his son’s death…and then escaped from a Florida …

A driver is able to get out of his car…after he rolled it…while swerving to avoid hitting a deer in Butler, early Monday. DeKalb County deputies say Colin Gary, 19, of Edgerton, told officers he was going west in the 7000 block of CR 40 in Butler just after 4:45 …

Two people…believed to be from Williams County are accused by online activists in separate incidents, involving online child solicitation. One of the two was arrested Thursday morning by the West Terre Haute Police Department. On Nov. 27, the online activist group PCI: Predator Catchers Indianapolis posted video, apparently showing former …

Two minors are taken into custody…after a police pursuit that starts in DeKalb…and ends in Allen County, late Friday. Officials tell reporters…an off-duty sheriff’s deputy was southbound on I-69…when he tried to pull over someone for a minor traffic violation. The driver refused to stop…and instead tries to escape the …

The unemployment rate in Fulton County was down during October, according the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The rate was 3.4% in October, a decrease from 3.9% in September. In October of 2020, the unemployment rate in Fulton County was 3.5%. It’s estimated that 700 county residents were …

Jim Renacci, a former Republican congressman, who’s challenging Gov., DeWine in next year’s primary, picks a Christian filmmaker who made a documentary about former President Donald Trump to be his running mate. Joe Knopp of Springboro comes into the race with no political experience. Renacci, a businessman and former Wadsworth …

Lawsuits are accumulating against Ohio’s new congressional map, just as they did for GOP-drawn maps of new legislative districts, as voting and civil-rights groups allege partisan gerrymandering against the state’s ruling Republicans. The latest suit comes from the Ohio arms of the League of Women Voters and the A. Philip …