News

If you’re plan­ning to be on the high­ways this week­end, The Ohio State Patrol will be focus­ing on drunk dri­vers and other impaired dri­vers. OSP is join­ing other mem­bers of the 6-State Trooper Project and will tighten enforce­ment from this Fri­day at mid­night through Sun­day night at mid­night. They tell …

A Napoleon man found guilty of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter in Octo­ber was sent to prison yes­ter­day. 19 year old Justin Dou­ble got 30 months. He was charged after he got into an alter­ca­tion with 19 year old Jonathon Smart, also of Napoleon, over miss­ing mar­i­juana. Dou­ble pushed the man and he …

An Orland man was given a two year sen­tence Mon­day fol­low­ing a domes­tic dis­tur­bance involv­ing a weapon last March. 51-year-old Arthur Thomas Palus entered a guilty plea in Steuben Supe­rior Court on Octo­ber 5th to a level 6 felony of point­ing a firearm as part of a plea agree­ment with prosecutors. …

One of three peo­ple arrested last April when a metham­phet­a­mine lab was found in a room at the Ramada Inn north of Angola was sen­tenced on Mon­day in Steuben Cir­cuit Court. 21-year-old Des­ti­nee Lynn Hull was told to serve two years of a six year sen­tence after she entered a guilty …

Get­ting in the mood for the hol­i­days, the Defi­ance High School choral music depart­ment is host­ing it’s third annual Hol­i­day Choral Fes­ti­val. Four area high schools will be a part of it, this Sat­ur­day begin­ning at 3 p.m. Tick­ets for the con­cert are $5 and avail­able at the door.

Defi­ance High School’s new foot­ball field is tak­ing shape. The Fred J. Brown Sta­dium is get­ting new arti­fi­cial turf. Rains slowed down the progress on Fri­day and Saturday. The new field will ben­e­fit foot­ball, soc­cer, base­ball and soft­ball teams. The cost of the project is almost $3.5 mil­lion dol­lars. That includes …

The Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage Board of Edu­ca­tion will look at appli­ca­tions for the open board posi­tion in a spe­cial exec­u­tive ses­sion Thurs­day at 6 p.m. in the Choir room.

The Bryan Area Cham­ber of Com­merce is look­ing for this year’s Busi­ness Per­son of the Year. The qual­i­ties they’re look­ing for are using time & exper­tise to make Bryan an bet­ter com­mu­nity, going above and beyond his or her field of endeavor, must be employed by a mem­ber of the Cham­ber …

In other bud­get news, the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Depart­ment has reduced their bud­get for next year. Mon­day the board ok’d a con­tract for inter­net ser­vices oper­a­tion, main­te­nance and con­sult­ing with Black Box Net­work Ser­vices for about $7,500 a month.

In news that affects your wal­let, Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties plans to cut about 2.5 mil­lion dol­lars from next year’s bud­get. This year’s spend­ing was up dra­mat­i­cally because the Elec­tric Department’s gas tur­bine No. 2 needed exten­sive repairs. The bud­get will go before the Bryan City Coun­cil Bud­get Com­mit­tee for their …