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For the past week north­ern Ohio has been con­sumed with Ebola anx­i­ety after Texas nurse and Akron native Amber Vin­son was diag­nosed with the deadly virus after fly­ing home with an ele­vated tem­per­a­ture and then feel­ing ill after she arrived at her parent’s home in Tall­madge. Now, it appears Amber …

Defiance’s loss is Napoleon’s gain, as Defi­ance Stamp­ing, which has called Defi­ance home since 1928, is mov­ing to fac­tory and office space in Napoleon. The com­pany took out a long term lease on the build­ing located off US 24 and will ask Napoleon for a small incen­tive deal to help …

Bryan’s direc­tor of the Hill­side County Liv­ing facil­ity on County Road 16 in Bryan is gone, sub­mit­ting his res­ig­na­tion after the Ohio Depart­ment of Health dis­cov­ered his administrator’s license had expired. Jef­frey Wan­ge­ness is out, and for­mer admin­is­tra­tor Mar­cia Hauer is back in. The health depart­ment came to Hill­side to …

The United Way board green lighted a new ini­tia­tive called the We Care Cab­i­net. United Way is part­ner­ing with area food pantries to add toi­letry and per­sonal care items to food pack­ages, rea­son­ing that these are things that some­times peo­ple might skip eat­ing to acquire. The United Way spent 25 …

The Cor­rec­tions Com­mis­sion of North­west Ohio met yes­ter­day and heard about pro­posed changes in how beds are allo­cated at the regional jail. Toledo is now charg­ing crim­i­nals under the Ohio Revised Code rather than city ordi­nance and that will have an as-yet not under­stood impact on their need for beds …

A pair of stickup artists are sought in Antwerp fol­low­ing yesterday’s Gen­Fed Credit Union holdup. Two men in hood­ies and hand­ker­chiefs cov­er­ing their faces got away with cash after point­ing a gun. Sur­veil­lance footage viewed by the Pauld­ing County Sher­iff shows a stolen Buick Park Avenue as the get­away car. …

The Bryan School Board just reviewed the local district’s state report card and it fared well. The board met 25 ot 26 required indi­ca­tors for an A rat­ing. It scored a B on its per­for­mance rat­ing. And for grad­u­at­ing 95.8 per cent of stu­dents in four years it also scores …

Some pro­fes­sional ghost­busters will present evi­dence this com­ing Wednes­day at the Bryan Library that the library is haunted. The Ohio Researchers of Band Spir­its, which are three para­nor­mal experts who have appeared on Ani­mal Planet’s The Haunted, Biog­ra­phy Channel’s My Ghost Sto­ries, and the His­tory Channel’s Haunted His­tory, will share …

North­west Ohio towns have released when the lit­tle ghosts and gob­lins and zom­bies will be vis­it­ing door to door. Most will be hav­ing tri­cik or treat­ing on Sat­ur­day Novem­ber first. That would include Bryan, Alvord­ton, Edger­ton, Pulaski and West Unity. And the times are between 5 to 7 or 6 …

The Bryan Area Foun­da­tion had its semi-annual meet­ing yes­ter­day and pro­nounced the foun­da­tion in excel­lent finan­cial con­di­tion. The chair­man, Chip Wood, revealed that the assets are now 22 mil­lion dol­lars, and that will allow the foun­da­tion to give out nearly 700 thou­sand dol­lars in future schol­ar­ships and grants. IN 45 …