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One Injured In Crash

A Jim­mer­son Lake man was injured Wednes­day night in a Hills­dale County traf­fic acci­dent. 27-year-old Nicholas Carl Collins was injured in the crash which took place at about 8:30pm on West Ter­ri­to­r­ial Road west of South Edon Road in Cam­den Town­ship. Police say Collins lost con­trol of his vehi­cle, went …

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Pool Problems Plague Defiance

Defiance’s Kings­bury Pool is leak­ing, but repairs will have to wait untiil after the sum­mer sea­son. The leak was detected last week while the pool was being filled, when the water level dropped three inches over just a 16-hour period. The leak is sus­pected on a 10-inch drain line that …

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Bridge Work Occuring In Defiance

The city of Defi­ance has been noti­fied by the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion Dis­trict 1 that work will be con­ducted on the Ohio 66/Jefferson Avenue bridge, June 15–17. The bridge deck will be sealed dur­ing this time period, weather per­mit­ting. Traf­fic will be main­tained to one lane dur­ing the main­te­nance …

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Ohio FFA State President Is A Local

Matthew Klopfen­stein, a 2014 Wayne Trace grad­u­ate, is the newly elected Ohio FFA state pres­i­dent, after being elected by del­e­gates at the 87th State FFA Con­ven­tion. Now, his job is to travel the state, vis­it­ing chap­ters and con­duct­ing work­shops, and also serv­ing as the del­e­gate for Ohio at the National …

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Parade Registration Deadline Looming

A reminder that the dead­line to reg­is­ter for the annual Bryan Jubilee parade is 5 p.m. on Mon­day. A down­load­able reg­is­tra­tion form is avail­able at www.bryanchamber.org. This year’s parade theme is “The Kid in Me.” For more infor­ma­tion, you can log on to the cham­ber web­site… Bryan Cham­ber Dot Org.

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Pole Barn Fire Causes $200,000 Damage

A fire at a pole barn on Wednes­day after­noon, north of Angola, caused nearly $200,000 worth of dam­age. Flames broke out just after 3:00pm yes­ter­day on the Clay Grif­fin along State Road 127. The build­ing had a lot of small equip­ment in it, along with large round bales of hay. …

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Bryan Rapist Sentenced

A Bryan man who raped a men­tally hand­i­capped per­son, was sen­tenced Wednes­day in Williams County Court to 11 years behind bars. 54 year old Ricky Rothen­buh­ler pleaded guilty last month to rape, and fail­ure to notify author­i­ties of a change in address. Rothen­buh­ler was already a reg­is­tered sex offender fol­low­ing …

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Severe Storms Strike Region

A severe and dam­ag­ing storm raced across our area on Wednes­day night, bring­ing down power lines and trees in it’s path of destruc­tion. Toledo Edi­son reports a num­ber of out­ages in and around Defi­ance, Florida and Wauseon, leav­ing hun­dreds of peo­ple in the dark. Accord­ing to the National Weather Ser­vice, …

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Body Discovered In Edgerton

A dead body was dis­cov­ered in Edger­ton. Police say the body was found by fam­ily mem­bers on Mon­day night just before 8pm. No names have been released, but we do know that the address where the body was dis­cov­ered is 118 West Lynn Street in Edger­ton. Edger­ton Police so far …

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Paulding Man Killed In Crash

A Pauld­ing man died Tues­day morn­ing in a one-vehicle crash. 18 year old Skyler Huth was pro­nounced dead at the scene by the Pauld­ing County Coro­ner. The crash hap­pened yes­ter­day morn­ing just after 7:30 on US-127, when Huth, who was north­bound in a Chevy Avalanche, appar­ently drifted off the side …

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