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Earth Day is this week, but a Bryan busi­ness does its part every day to help pro­tect the envi­ron­ment. WiltonKeck Recy­cling started up last year and, in eight months of oper­a­tion, has recy­cled about 115 tons of paper mate­r­ial, the equiv­a­lent of about 2,000 trees. They’ve also sent over 200,000 …

The Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office is ask­ing for the public’s help in locat­ing two peo­ple who failed to appear in court. Alvin Gerkin of Napoleon is wanted on a felony vio­la­tion of parole. Angel Gon­za­lez of Fos­to­ria is wanted on a felony forgery charge. Nei­ther man showed up for their …

50 new full-time jobs are com­ing to Williams County, thanks to a road­work project grant. State sen­a­tor Cliff Hite made the announce­ment yes­ter­day that the vil­lage of Pio­neer received a $500,000 Road­work Devel­op­ment Grant from the state to extend Clark Street to Core Way Drive, mak­ing a con­nec­tion to High­way …

A pair of Arch­bold High School stu­dents are in hot water for cir­cu­lat­ing nude pic­tures via text mes­sage with other stu­dents. The two 17-year-olds, whose names have not been released due to their age, are fac­ing felony charges. Three addi­tional juve­niles are look­ing at mis­de­meanor charges in the case, which …

39-year-old Jimmy Mat­ney of Defi­ance died from a heroin over­dose on Dec. 27, 2013. Now, the man who sold him the drugs has been con­victed for Matney’s death. 32-year-old Robert R. Kramer was found guilty of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter fol­low­ing a three-day trial in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Sen­tenc­ing is …

A com­puter virus that affected thou­sands of web­sites also hit the Arch­bold Area School Dis­trict web­site last week, accord­ing to the Bryan Times. The virus dis­played a mes­sage claim­ing to be from the the ter­ror­ist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, bet­ter known as ISIS. So far, no dam­age …

Hills­dale Inter­me­di­ate School Dis­trict has a new board mem­ber fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of the board’s pres­i­dent last month. Valerie White, a Hills­dale res­i­dent and assis­tant pros­e­cut­ing attor­ney for Branch County, was selected from four can­di­dates who fielded ques­tions from the school board. White high­lighted her back­ground in law as a …

Hills­dale city lead­ers are look­ing at chang­ing the code that deals with open burn­ing restric­tions. A pro­posed amend­ment would ban all open­ing burn­ing in the city between mid­night and 4am except for cook­ing grills, mean­ing no camp­fires, open fire pits, or bon­fires. Out­door fires of any kind, includ­ing grills and …

Indi­ana State Trooper Peter Bradley of Noble County was awarded the department’s Sil­ver Star for res­cu­ing a dis­tressed pad­dle boater last August. Two adults and two chil­dren were in the boat on Knapp Lake a few miles north­west of Fort Wayne when it started to founder. One of the adults …

An Angola man is return­ing to prison after vio­lat­ing his pro­ba­tion from a 2010 drug case. 28-year-old Jeromy R. Baker will spend seven years behind bars for a com­bi­na­tion of charges on drug man­u­fac­tur­ing and resist­ing arrest along with the parole vio­la­tion. Three chil­dren found in Baker’s house dur­ing a …