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Check­ing the cost of a fill-up today, the low­est price we’re see­ing for gas is $1.81 at the Valero on S. Union St. at E. Maple. Prices across Ohio are aver­ag­ing $1.92 a gal­lon and nation­ally gas is $2. for unleaded. We checked back to the high­est price paid in …

For folks who want to get dolled up for the hol­i­days, a reminder that The Four County Career Cen­ter cos­me­tol­ogy salon will be closed from Dec. 23 through Jan. 6. It will reopen on Jan. 7th.

A Napoleon family’s Christ­mas is affected by a fire that caused $80,000 dam­age to their home and $15,000 to the home’s con­tents. The house at 60 Lemans Dr. was reported about 4 p.m., accord­ing to the Napoleon Fire Depart­ment. The res­i­dents were dis­placed. The cause has not been determined.

On Sat­ur­day night, a car and motor­cy­clist crashed at Ohio 15 and Wat­son Rd. The biker’s injuries were not life-threatening, accord­ing to the sheriff’s deputy. The crash hap­pened just before 7 p.m. and no other details were released.

Com­mis­sion­ers also rezoned three parcels of land from agri­cul­ture to com­mer­cial. The nearly 3 acres are in Pulaski Town­ship. The owner of the prop­er­ties, Tim Car­lin, was at the meet­ing. His real­tor, TJ Zim­mer­man, said there are no imme­di­ate plans to develop the properties.

A Job and Fam­ily Ser­vices employee was fired Fri­day. The Williams County Com­mis­sion approved the dis­missal after a half-hour exec­u­tive ses­sion with County Job and Fam­ily Ser­vices Direc­tor Pam John­son. The employee they say was fired for a vari­ety of rea­sons, includ­ing dis­hon­esty, malfea­sance, vio­lat­ing depart­ment rules and insubordination.

A man who was charged with Mak­ing a False Police report was arrested Fri­day night for fail­ing to appear in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Bryan Police caught up with Patrick Oyer at an apart­ment on West Hicks St. in Hicksville. The 27-year-old was arrested about 10:20 p.m. Fri­day and trans­ported to …

Also over the week­end, Bryan Police arrested Joshua Cox, a 21-year-old man from Cold­wa­ter Michi­gan on a war­rant out of the Williams County Court of Com­mon Pleas. The indict­ment was for drug charges, includ­ing ille­gal man­u­fac­ture, pos­ses­sion, and assem­bly. He was turned over to the Williams County Sheriff’s Depart­ment and …

Bryan Police say they arrested an 18-year-old man on theft charges on Sat­ur­day. Ryan Coker was picked up Sat­ur­day night just after 11 p.m. for two counts of theft. He was booked and then released on his own recognizance.

It’s finally here. The annual Defi­ance hol­i­day orna­ment is being sold at the Down­town Defi­ance Vis­i­tors Bureau, Deluxe Clean­ers and at Stam­baugh Jew­el­ers. The orna­ment fea­tures Defi­ance High School and only 500 are avail­able. They are $10 each, and the moneh goes to pay for the city’s hol­i­day dec­o­rat­ing committee.