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Ear­lier this week, we told you about a pro­posal to change the Hill­dale city open-burning ordi­nance. The change was approved by the city coun­cil and bans all open burn­ing in the city between mid­night and 4am, mean­ing no camp­fires, open fire pits, or bon­fires. Open fires are also off-limits dur­ing …

The Lib­erty Cen­ter vil­lage coun­cil spent some time ear­lier this week dis­cussing changes to street align­ment related to an upcom­ing school con­struc­tion project. A report by the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion rec­om­mended extend­ing the south drive at the school com­plex to meet up with Dam­as­cus Street, which would accom­mo­date a …

Today is the ground­break­ing cer­e­mony for the first phase of a mas­ter plan to unite all Bryan City Schools stu­dents on one cam­pus. The first phase will be the con­struc­tion of a com­bined middle-and-high school. The event kicks off at 10:30am, and if you can’t make it out to the …

The DeKalb County Prosecutor’s Office is not happy with CSX. WANE reports that the rail­road com­pany has racked up over 40 traf­fic tick­ets in less than six months, some­thing that Deputy Pros­e­cu­tor Erik Weber says is an unac­cept­able safety haz­ard with traf­fic remain­ing blocked for extended periods–sometimes up to 14 …

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 …