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The Williams County Engi­neer issued a report this week that will make offi­cials in other coun­ties envi­ous. Engi­neer Todd Roth told the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers that the county has around a thou­sand tons of road salt stored for the upcom­ing win­ter sea­son. He says since it can be extended with …

A web site called Livability.com wanted to find the places in Amer­ica where the pop­u­la­tion is mostly cen­trists polit­i­cally; not lean­ing either to the left or to the right, but smack dab in the mid­dle. And com­ing in at9th in the coun­try for cen­trism is Ore­gon, Ohio. The study shows …

Arch­bold has a new police chief. Joseph Wyse has already been with the ARch­bold police depart­ment for 18 years and is an Arch­bold native. He takes over from Chief Mar­tin Schmidt to was with the depart­ment for 35 years. The Vil­lage Coun­cil chose him from 35 resumes not only from …

The Bryan Board of Ed accepted the res­ig­na­tion of the Lin­coln Ele­men­tary School prin­ci­pal, Tammy Dar­row. They made no men­tion of what was behind the res­ig­na­tion but the Bryan police chief con­firmed he had received a com­plaint from the Super­in­ten­dent about mis­ap­pro­pri­ated funds in ref­er­ence to Ms. Dar­row. An inves­ti­ga­tion …

The Edon North­west Teach­ers Asso­ci­a­tion has given notice they are ready to strike as early as the first week in Novem­ber if an agree­ment on a new con­tract isn’t reached next week. Evern a state medi­a­tor was unable to bring both sides together when they met last week. Their three …

Police offi­cers and deputies are hon­ing their weapons reac­tion skills at the Ohio Peace Offi­cer Train­ing Acad­emy ses­sions set up in the county’s East Annex Build­ing on High Street. Active shooter com­puter sim­u­la­tions are set up in a state pro­gram to test and improve the judge­ment of law enforce­ment offi­cers. …

The Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs says it is not inclined to raise cable TV rates for cus­tomers as much as it would have to to con­tinue car­ry­ing Fort Wayne’s NBC amd CBS affil­i­ates and so may drop those chan­nels. Pass­ing on the pro­posed increases for those chan­nels would boost …

Even though no one in Ohio beside Ambert Vin­son has tested pos­i­tive for the Ebola virus, the Ohio Depart­ment of Health has set up a 24 hour a day Ebola hot­line to answer ques­tions about Ebola. The num­ber is 866–800-1404. Just below Defi­ance the Put­nam County Health Depart­ment has been …

A Lib­erty Cen­ter man work­ing at a con­struc­tion site on the I-475 Bridge over the Maumee River was injured when struck by a hit and run dri­ver. It hap­pened south­bound near mile marker 4. 40 year-old Joshua Ben­son was wear­ing a reflec­tive vest that should have made him vis­i­ble in …

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege is throw­ing its first everDis­cover NSCC Day in Arch­bold Sat­ur­day Novem­ber first. Vis­i­tors are invited to wan­der the cam­pus and class­rooms as the labs will be open and there will be inter­ac­tive demon­stra­tions in all depart­ments. For more info visit NorthwestState.edu.