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Trash rates are going up next year, and the year after. The Bryan City Coun­cil approved the hikes. The monthly rates will go up to $23.50 begin­ning Jan­u­ary first, then up another two dol­lars in Jan­u­ary 2017. Seniors will pay $19 next year, and $21 in 2017. The rate hike …

An Ohio man is fac­ing charges after 198 mar­i­juana plants were seized from his res­i­dence in Antwerp. Tim­o­thy B. Edwards, 56, was arrested at the house he rents on Mon­day. He is being charged with know­ingly cul­ti­vat­ing mar­i­juana, a third-degree felony. Police also seized chem­i­cals, lights, soil, fans, firearms and …

A local Mom is upset at the Bryan school dis­trict, for how they’ve han­dled a sit­u­a­tion with her daugh­ter, her mid­dle school teacher and a friend three years ago. The woman, Kim Snavely said her girls were at the teacher’s home after school and found pri­vate sex­ual items. Snavely said …

There were two win­ners at the Miss North­west­ern Ohio Schol­ar­ship Pageant. The win­ner of the schol­ar­ship pageant is Hay­ley Hes­selschwardt of Hicksville. She’s joined in the winner’s cir­cle by Marcy Miller of Defi­ance, who was named Miss Out­stand­ing Teen. Hes­selschwardt won a $1,000 schol­ar­ship and the right to com­pete in the …

Here’s the lat­est on the crash Sun­day after­noon involv­ing a Michi­gan man. 41 year-old Anthony Reynolds of Flint is charged with flee­ing and elud­ing police and served with a war­rant for fail­ure to com­ply. A chase involv­ing the man led to a two-vehicle crash in Napoleon. Reynolds hit a truck …

Check­ing gas prices in the area… Accord­ing to AAA, gas prices in the Buck­eye state are down about one dol­lar from a year ago, and down again from last week. Today it’s about $1.84 in Defi­ance. That’s a far cry from the $4.19 we paid four and a half years …

There’s now a CrimeStop­pers reward of $500 for the man who burst into Rings Phar­macy on Novem­ber 3rd and stole drugs right off the shelves. Mont­pe­lier Police Chief Dan McGee says the man is an addict and has addict friends. He says the man moved fast, shov­ing drugs into a …

And look­ing ahead to Christ­mas, and it’s just around the cor­ner, Grace Com­mu­nity Church is orga­niz­ing their Christ­mas food box give­away. They’re help­ing out folks who’ve had it hard this year. They’ll take appli­ca­tions at the church office in Bryan. And if you’re able to donate, call Grace Com­mu­nity Church …

There’ll be a free food give­away for those who need it tomor­row at the Wes­ley United Methodist Church, that’s at 903 Cen­ter Street in Bryan. The free food dis­tri­b­u­tion begins at noon and is sched­uled to end at 4 p.m.

Police are also look­ing into a rob­bery at 4 a.m. Sat­ur­day at the Speed­way on North Clin­ton St. in Defi­ance. The same MO was used in that rob­bery. The rob­ber got away with an undis­closed amount of cash.