News

Defi­ance High School’s new foot­ball field is tak­ing shape. The Fred J. Brown Sta­dium is get­ting new arti­fi­cial turf. Rains slowed down the progress on Fri­day and Saturday. The new field will ben­e­fit foot­ball, soc­cer, base­ball and soft­ball teams. The cost of the project is almost $3.5 mil­lion dol­lars. That includes …

The Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage Board of Edu­ca­tion will look at appli­ca­tions for the open board posi­tion in a spe­cial exec­u­tive ses­sion Thurs­day at 6 p.m. in the Choir room.

The Bryan Area Cham­ber of Com­merce is look­ing for this year’s Busi­ness Per­son of the Year. The qual­i­ties they’re look­ing for are using time & exper­tise to make Bryan an bet­ter com­mu­nity, going above and beyond his or her field of endeavor, must be employed by a mem­ber of the Cham­ber …

In other bud­get news, the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Depart­ment has reduced their bud­get for next year. Mon­day the board ok’d a con­tract for inter­net ser­vices oper­a­tion, main­te­nance and con­sult­ing with Black Box Net­work Ser­vices for about $7,500 a month.

In news that affects your wal­let, Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties plans to cut about 2.5 mil­lion dol­lars from next year’s bud­get. This year’s spend­ing was up dra­mat­i­cally because the Elec­tric Department’s gas tur­bine No. 2 needed exten­sive repairs. The bud­get will go before the Bryan City Coun­cil Bud­get Com­mit­tee for their …

The Ohio State Patrol trooper who shot and killed a Celina man Sun­day has been placed on leave. The man killed, 22 year old Justin Henry, is said to have pointed a gun at Trooper Bran­don Chaney and ordered him out of his cruiser. Henry had what they are call­ing …

Time Warner inter­net ser­vices were down in all of Ohio, Ken­tucky, most of Indi­ana, New York City, a big part of Wis­con­sin, San Fran­cisco, LA and east Texas last night. Some media sources cite a Time Warner Cable spokesper­son who said all ser­vices were restored about 10 p.m. after a …

The state says there are $2.3 bil­lion dol­lars in unclaimed funds just wait­ing for their right­ful own­ers to pick up. The money, which the Ohio Depart­ment of Com­merce Divi­sion of Unclaimed Funds, is often for­got­ten in bank accounts, rent or util­ity deposits, uncashed checks and uncashed insur­ance poli­cies. You can …

Deer hunters are report­ing fewer deer in the fields on Day One of this years deer gun hunt­ing sea­son. Accord­ing to the Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources, there are fewer deer now than when the pop­u­la­tion bal­looned in the last 10 years. Hunters will have two bonus days this year, …

Williams County Com­mu­nity The­atre is in dress rehearsals this week, as they get ready to open the cur­tain Fri­day night on their Decem­ber pro­duc­tion, “It’s A Won­der­ful Life: A Live Radio Play.” The the­atre group is ask­ing patrons to donate canned goods and non-perishable food items to help local fam­i­lies …