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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 …

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 …