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Ferrell Trial Postponed

The trial of a Bryan man accused of run­ning a pal­let scam has been post­poned. Gene Fer­rell was sched­uled to stand trial start­ing at 9 yes­ter­day morn­ing in Williams County Com­mon Pleas Court.

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Blizzard Auction Deemed Huge Success This Year

The WBNO/WQCT 36th Annual Bliz­zard Auc­tion was a huge suc­cess, with Con­quer Child­hood Can­cer NOW get­ting more than $14,000 which will be put to use for treat­ing and defeat­ing child­hood can­cers. Con­quer Child­hood Can­cer NOW has a three-pronged approach to fight­ing the dis­ease. One of their goals is to raise …

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Bryan PD Report

Bryan Police on Sat­ur­day, arrested 24 year old Don­ald L. Bren­ne­man of Bryan for Crim­i­nal Tres­pass and Dis­or­derly Con­duct. He was taken to CCNO. On Sun­day, Bryan Police nabbed 24 year old Arturo Melchiorre-Soto of Bryan for Crim­i­nal Tres­pass and Dis­or­derly Con­duct. He too was taken to CCNO.

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Herber Steps Down At United Way In Paulding

Sonya Her­ber has resigned as exec­u­tive direc­tor of the United Way of Pauld­ing County. Her­ber has been with the United Way since 2012. She told the Cres­cent News that she resigned from the post to spend more time with her fam­ily. Offi­cials with Untied Way say that while Her­ber has …

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No More Room For Snow In Defiance

Too much snow, and no place left to put it. That’t the sit­u­a­tion in down­town Defi­ance, and it’s prompted Defi­ance Mayor Bob Arm­strong to declare a snow emer­gency and down­town park­ing ban so city crews can begin to remove snow from the down­town. Park­ing is pro­hib­ited on most down­town streets …

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Northwest Dispute Grows

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege and the North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion, both claim they were forced to can­cel a fact-finding ses­sion that each had hoped would help resolve dif­fer­ences over cen­tral­iza­tion of power and a new con­tract agree­ment. The edu­ca­tion asso­ci­a­tion said, in a press release, that the rea­son …

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Collins To Run In Hicksville

A new hat has been tossed into the ring for the job of mayor of Hicksville. Diane Collins announced that she wants the job. The 57 year old Collins is now the clerk trea­surer in Hicksville, a posi­tion she has held for eight terms. Born in Hicksville, Collins is a …

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Defiance Inks Fire Contracts

Good news for Defi­ance fire­fight­ers. City Coun­cil approved a new three year con­tract with the fire­fight­ers, that calls for annual raises on Tues­day night. The new con­tract is retroac­tive to Jan. 1 and will run until Dec. 31, 2017. Under the terms of the new con­tract, raises of 2.75 per­cent …

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Former WEDCO Head Headed To Jail

The for­mer head of the Williams County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (WEDCO), has been sen­tenced on OVI charges in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Dia­mond Zim­mer­man was sen­tenced to serve 90 days in jail, with 70 days sus­pended… as long as she has no new vio­la­tions within two years. Zim­mer­man will also lose …

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Lots Of Deer Harvested This Year In Ohio

The num­bers are in, and now it appears that Ohio’s white-tailed deer archery sea­son, which closed Sun­day, Feb. 1, mark­ing the end of Ohio’s 2014–15 deer hunt­ing sea­son, resulted in hunters across the state bag­ging a total of 175,745 deer dur­ing all 2014–15 hunt­ing sea­sons. The Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural …

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