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A Defi­ance man died Sun­day when his truck was struck by a CSX train. Defi­ance County Sher­iffs say the pickup was trav­el­ing north­bound across the tracks near Spruce Street at about 11am when an east­bound train hit the vehi­cle. The dri­ver of the truck was ejected from the vehi­cle and …

The Amer­i­can dream is alive and well in the minds of sev­eral dozen peo­ple who will become nat­u­ral­ized cit­i­zens dur­ing a cer­e­mony at Defi­ance High School. Stu­dents from the school will take part in the cer­e­mony and through it, school offi­cials hope they learn more about cit­i­zen­ship. The event is …

A man with decades of youth min­istry expe­ri­ence is becomin the head of Defi­ance Area Youth For Christ. Brad Sis­son becomes the fourth exec­u­tive direc­tor in the ministry’s his­tory. After turn­ing down inquiries about the open­ing before Sis­son even­tu­ally felt he was being called to the work.

It’s a total loss and now the inves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues into a house fire at 437 Williams Street late Wednes­day night. Neigh­bors reported the blaze, which the Bryan Times reports had been par­tially obstructed by trees in the front yard. By the time fire crews got there, the whole first floor …

New fenc­ing and ken­nel gates will be going up at the Williams County Dog Pound. Com­mis­sion­ers okayed the projects Thurs­day, reports the Bryan Times, and they also instruc­cted shel­ter offi­cials to start seek­ing quotes on what anew build­ing would cost to put at the cur­rent site just out­side Bryan. The …

There’s a new per­son atop the Williams County Depart­ment of Aging. Mag­gie Fisher is the department’s for­mer fis­cal offi­cer and replaces Donna Sprow, who left in late August for a posi­tion with Hill­side Coun­try Liv­ing. Fisher’s career at the Depart­ment of Aging began as a seniro cen­ter site man­ager for …

The Coast Guard offi­cially ended its search Wednes­day for the miss­ing crew mem­bers from a U.S. cargo ship that sank off the Bahamas dur­ing Hur­ri­cane Joaquin. Petty Offi­cer Mark Bar­ney said the search for sur­vivors from the El Faro ended at 7 p.m. Ear­lier Wednes­day, the Coast Guard broke the …

There’s a Fall Fes­ti­val hap­pen­ing in the vil­lage of West Unity on Sat­ur­day. The Bryan Times reports it gets under­way with a fire­fighter breakkfast at 6am at the fire hall fol­lowed by a silent auc­tion between 9am and 3pm at the Amer­i­can Legion. Items being bid­ded on includ­ing gift cer­tifi­cates, …

In Spring­field Town­ship, vot­ers have a bal­lot ques­tion to con­sider in the form of a new, five year 1.5 mill levy to help pay for roads and other infra­sc­ture there. Town­ship offi­cials call it crit­i­cal con­sid­er­ing the loss of fund­ing from the estate tax, which the state elim­i­nated. They say …

A new ground­wa­ter study pre­sented at the Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs meet­ing Tues­day evening increases sig­nif­i­cantly the bound­aries of the City of Bryan’s source water pro­tec­tion area. Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties con­tracted with Ben­nett & Williams, a con­sult­ing firm, to update the delin­eation of the source water pro­tec­tion area as …