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The Supe­rior Town­ship Trustees remind every­one of spring cleanup dates for the town­ship ceme­ter­ies, includ­ing River­side Ceme­tery. All flow­ers, grave blan­kets and other items should be removed by April 15. Any items remain­ing after that date may be removed at the trustees’ dis­cre­tion. No new grave flow­ers, blan­kets or dec­o­ra­tions …

Plans to build a new regional water treat­ment plant were on the table for dis­cus­sion dur­ing a meet­ing this week of the Lib­erty Cen­ter Vil­lage Coun­cil. An inter­gov­ern­men­tal con­sor­tium, made up of Lib­erty Cen­ter, Florida, Mal­inta and the Henry County Water and Sewer Dis­trict, went over var­i­ous options for build­ing …

The North Cen­tral Board of Edu­ca­tion on Tues­day, voted to approve a trans­fer of $300,000 from the per­ma­nent improve­ment fund to the locally-funded ini­tia­tive por­tion of the cost of some new con­struc­tion. The board also approved a pay­ment of $1,480,164.07 to the class­room facil­i­ties fund. The Bryan Times reports that …

Bryan will soon be updat­ing deeds with landown­ers along Ohio 111 in Defi­ance County near it’s hydro­elec­tric plant which sits just south of Defi­ance. The Bryan Times reports that Brian Car­lin, the Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties Direc­tor, noted that a new prop­erty owner along the river in that area brought some …

Williams County Sher­iffs Deputies made an arrest yes­ter­day after­noon. Peter James Oiler of ALL-VERDTON, was arrested on a Williams County Grand Jury Indict­ment for 10 counts of cor­rupt­ing another with drugs and one count each of per­mit­ting drug abuse and fur­nish­ing alco­hol to under­age indi­vid­u­als. Oiler was taken to the …

In Wauseon, it appears that Council-man Mar­tin Estrada will keep his seat, despite the recent dis­cov­ery that he was not a reg­is­tered Ful­ton County voter at the time of his appoint­ment to coun­cil. The Cres­cent News reports that Wauseon Mayor Kathy Huner said, at this week’s meet­ing, that she will …

A Bryan woman was locked up after being arrested early this morn­ing by Bryan Police. 19 year old Kylie Cran­son of South Cherry Street was arrested this morn­ing just after mid­night, on charges of assault and crim­i­nal tres­pass. She was taken to CCNO. Bryan Police have declined to pro­vide any …

Defi­ance County Audi­tor Jill Lit­tle has released a report for Feb­ru­ary. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, real estate trans­fers num­bered 160 last month, up from 124 a year ago, and real estate sales value was also up, com­ing in at $4,283,297 as opposed to last Feb­ru­ary when it totaled $3,471,397. …

In Edger­ton, the vil­lage coun­cil on Mon­day night at their reg­u­lar meet­ing, approved the pur­chase of a vehi­cle. The village’s water depart­ment had requested that coun­cil pur­chase a 2012 Ram 2500 4×4 with ser­vice body, includ­ing a ten-year war­ranty, for $27,000. That comes in at around $2,000 less than what …

Edon Vil­lage Coun­cil met Mon­day evening, and with lit­tle else on their plate last night, passed an ordi­nance adopt­ing amend­ments to the zon­ing code regard­ing height restric­tions in the com­mer­cial and busi­ness dis­trict. In other light action, coun­cil approved a res­o­lu­tion allow­ing the vil­lage to par­tic­i­pate in the Ohio Pub­lic …