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The first read­ing of an ordi­nance to increase the income tax in Stryker by .3% was knocked down by a vote of four to two. If approved through three read­ings, the issue would have been on the Novem­ber bal­lot to increase the cur­rent 1.5 per­cent vil­lage income tax by 0.3 …

A Defi­ance County jury on Fri­day, decided that the widow of a for­mer Gen­eral Motors employee who died of lung can­cer is enti­tled to work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion ben­e­fits. It took a jury about four and a half hours to reach their deci­sion, in which they ruled that Fayrene Den­nis of Arkansas, …

A man from Defi­ance man is dead, fol­low­ing a Fri­day after­noon crash in Allen County that left seven other peo­ple injured. 79 year old William Edgar Defi­ance was killed in the crash that hap­pened just after 2 Fri­day after­noon at U.S. 30 and Thayer Road when his north­bound Ford F-150 …

The North­west State Board of Trustees on Fri­day after­noon, unan­i­mously voted to rat­ify the rec­om­men­da­tions pro­vided by a third party fact-finding orga­ni­za­tion and end an ongo­ing labor dis­pute. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, the North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion voted to rat­ify the new con­tract for the school’s edu­ca­tors. …

One arrest by Williams County Sher­iffs Deputis over the weekend.…46 year old Ronald Brust of Bryan was arrested on a Williams County Com­mon Pleas Court war­rant for felony theft.He is cur­rently being held at Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of NW Ohio

Ground has been bro­ken, and now work is under­way, for the new Nature Fresh Farm facil­ity on Ohio 109 at Delta. The project rep­re­sents a $200 mil­lion invest­ment in the area, and is expected to be well under­way by the end of the year. Com­pany offi­cials say within 7 years, …

Pauld­ing County junior fair chicken meat pen orders will be avail­able for pick up from 3–4:30 p.m. April 14 at the Pauld­ing County OSU Exten­sion Office. Pay­ment for the chicken is due when they are picked up. For more infor­ma­tion, call 419–399-8225. And Feeder calf weigh-in and tag­ging for junior …

Absen­tee bal­lots for the May 5 spe­cial elec­tion in the Edon North­west School Dis­trict, Spring­field Town­ship and the Vil­lage of Stryker, are now avail­able at the Williams County Board of Elec­tions office on E. High Street in Bryan. Reg­is­tered vot­ers who wish to vote absen­tee by mail must sub­mit an …

The search was on Wednes­day evening for a 5-year-old boy who was reported miss­ing from a home on Har­ri­son Avenue in Defi­ance. He was even­tu­ally found unharmed at a local church. The boy’s mother reported the child miss­ing Wednes­day evening around 6:30. Police, Sheriff’s offi­cers, fire crews, the high­way patrol, …

This can only mean one thing… it is finally spring! We are happy to be talk­ing today about the water being turned back on at the Bard Cen­ten­nial Foun­tain on the cour­t­house square in down­town Bryan. That couldn’t have hap­pened with the cold, freez­ing weather we had just a few …