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As promised, down­town Bryan Christ­mas dec­o­ra­tions started com­ing down this week, so they could clear the way for the cour­t­house roof and tower repair project that is set to be begin after the first of the year. The nearly $1.5 mil­lion dol­lar restora­tion will repair in exte­rior and inte­rior of …

Freez­ing rains and high winds knocked down power lines yes­ter­day between Antwerp and Payne. Ohio 49 was closed while ODOT crews work to clear the poles. There were power out­ages due to the wind and rain. Some scat­tered out­ages in West Unity in Williams County were reported, and in Hol­gate …

We’re get­ting new infor­ma­tion about a fire on Sun­day that destroyed a Hicksville home. Four fire depart­ments responded to the 200 block of W. Hicks St. about 11:30 Sun­day night. The 1 1/2 story home is unin­hab­it­able, sus­tain­ing up to $75,000 dam­age. The occu­pants were home at the time, and …

Another house fire, this time on Christ­mas Eve, may have started as an elec­tri­cal prob­lem in the wall of the home. A fire broke out in Henry County at din­ner time, about 6 p.m. on County Road J in Elery. The cou­ple and their 10 year old daugh­ter were about …

In Con­ti­nen­tal, there are two empty coun­cil seats, and the Vil­lage Coun­cil will meet tonight to dis­cuss can­di­dates. One coun­cil seat is for a full term, the other is for the remain­der of the term that expires in 2017. The meet­ing is in the vil­lages town hall and begins at …

Defi­ance County Com­mis­sioner Otto Nicely has been selected as trea­surer of the 2016 County Com­mis­sion­ers Asso­ci­a­tion of Ohio. Nicely has served on the board for the past 15 years. He was elected by the annual win­ter con­fer­ence in Colum­bus. He is vice-chairman of the association’s Health and Human Ser­vices committee.

Two oth­ers were arrested for OVI over Christ­mas Eve. 37-year-old Michael Culp of Wauseon was charged with OVI, dri­ving under sus­pen­sion and hav­ing an open con­tainer dur­ing a traf­fic stop about 2 a.m. at Clin­ton and River Dr. Defi­ance Police say other charges are pending. A lit­tle later Thurs­day morn­ing, …

Police arrested Tracy Lowe, a 39-year-old Pauld­ing man, for DUI and other charges on Thurs­day. Lowe was involved in a pur­suit that began at Clin­ton and Fourth streets, and was arrested a short time later. He’s in the CCNO, charged with dri­ving under the influ­ence, fail­ure to com­ply, assault on …

A Cor­win St. man was arrested on mul­ti­ple charges late last week. 28-year-old Gabriel Gutier­rez is charged with escape, resist­ing arrest, mar­i­juana pos­ses­sion and parpher­na­lia, a parole vio­la­tion and was wanted on an active war­rant out of Defi­ance Munic­i­pal Court.

Defi­ance mayor-elect Mike McCann will be sworn in on Jan­u­ary first to begin his first four-year term. McCann beat the incum­bent Bob Arm­strong and held off chal­lenger Brian Brown in Novem­ber. McCann has served as pres­i­dent of city coun­cil for the past two years, and is hop­ing to open up …