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The Flo­rence Town­ship fire depart­ment suf­fered a dev­as­tat­ing fire May 2nd. The fire sta­tion was heav­ily dam­aged, the all four of the township’s fire trucks were destroyed in the blaze. The Bryan Times today, is report­ing that a spe­cial meet­ing was called by the Bryan City Counci on Tues­day, and …

The Mont­pe­lier Exempted Board of Edu­ca­tion on Tues­day evening, went over per­son­nel approvals and ser­vice con­tracts for to the 2015–16 school year. In addi­tion, sev­eral stu­dents were rec­og­nized for their out­stand­ing aca­d­e­mic and artis­tic achieve­ments. At yesterday’s meet­ing, the five year fore­cast was approved, in which, accord­ing to The Times, …

Just what con­t­a­m­i­nants exist on the for­mer SK Hand Tools prop­erty in Defi­ance may be learned soon if an EPA grant comes through. Dur­ing their Mon­day meet­ing, Defi­ance County com­mis­sion­ers dis­cussed the lat­est devel­op­ments in efforts to clean up and mar­ket the prop­erty, which has report­edly dete­ri­o­rated greatly since the …

Bryan Police were kept busy on Mon­day with sev­eral arrests in the city. First, 19 year old Alexan­der Kochert was busted for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana and drug para­pher­na­lia. Police released him though. Then, 48 year old Kali Hug found her­self on the wrong side of the law, when she was …

The man who was recently involved in a four-hour stand­off with police in Arch­bold, is now dead. 24 year old Ricky Sauber died fol­low­ing a self-inflicted gun­shot wound that was sus­tained dur­ing the inci­dent that hap­pened back on April 17th when police were called to his South Lin­coln Street home …

In Stryker, the vil­lage coun­cil said “NO” to a new tax. How­ever, that won’t pre­vent coun­cil from plac­ing a finance-related issue on the Novem­ber bal­lot. At Monday’s coun­cil meet­ing, the local paper reports that Stryker Coun­cil voted unan­i­mously to seek re-allocation of the cur­rent 0.5-percent income tax, after pre­vi­ously con­sid­er­ing …

The Williams County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion may be hir­ing. WEDCO, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, has received con­di­tional approval to hire an intern this sum­mer. WEDCO board already has a ten­ta­tive intern­ship agree­ment with Defi­ance Col­lege, which will rec­om­mend stu­dents for inter­views for the posi­tion. They hope that they can …

Antique car col­lec­tors from through­out the Mid­west will be meet­ing in Arch­bold on Sat­ur­day for the annual Antique Car Gath­er­ing at Sauder Vil­lage. More than 100 antique auto­mo­biles are already reg­is­tered for this pop­u­lar spring event — offer­ing a unique view of the auto­mo­biles of days gone by. Add to …

An arrest in Bryan over the week­end. Bryan Police pulled over 37 year old Melissa Flo­res at 2:15 Sun­day morn­ing, and arrested her for OVI. After pro­cess­ing, Flo­res was released, but she most cer­tainly will be in court soon on the charge.

44 year old Tony Camp­bell of Hicksville has been charged wtih two counts of rape, and 39 year old Judd Price, also of Hicksville, is also charged with two counts of rape and two counts of gross sex­ual impo­si­tion. The indict­ment against Camp­bell alleges that he had sex­ual con­duct sev­eral …