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The Bryan Sum­mer Series, pre­sented by Bryan’s First Pres­by­ter­ian Church, con­tin­ues on Wednes­day, when Myrna Grove will speak about one-room schools. It all begins tomor­row morn­ing at 10 in the church gath­er­ing area with cof­fee and a treat. The church is at 506 Oxford Drive in Bryan. Myrna Grove taught …

Accord­ing to fig­ures released by the Ohio High­way Patrol, we are com­ing off of the safest year on Ohio road­ways since they started keep­ing records. The High­way Patrol says less than 1,000 peo­ple statewide died in traf­fic crashes on Ohio’s road­ways last year, the low­est num­ber since the patrol began …

Some delays in the final work at the Defi­ance County Cour­t­house. Offices which had planned to move to tem­po­rary quar­ters this month while the cour­t­house is being ren­o­vated won’t be mov­ing now until some­time in late Sep­tem­ber. That means the planned bid open­ing date is now pushed back as well. …

Not too many peo­ple want to go to jail, but Amy Peters is beg­ging to get in. Accord­ing to The Courier, the 45 year old Peters was sen­tenced to five days in jail in Jan­u­ary 2013 for dri­ving with a sus­pended license, but she was then denied entry to the …

Bryan Police on Sat­ur­day, arrested 36 year old Allen Williams of Bryan on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ing to appear. The orig­i­nal charge was dis­or­derly con­duct. He was also charged with Pos­ses­sion of Drug Para­pher­na­lia. In addi­tion to that, Williams was also charged on a …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol will be out in full force crack­ing down on impaired dri­vers the entire Fourth of July week­end, which begins Thurs­day, July 3 and ends Sun­day, July 6. Their zero-tolerance pol­icy is part of the national Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforce­ment cam­paign aimed at …

Folks were scream­ing FIRE in Defi­ance Tues­day, but not in the way you might think. The Defi­ance County Fair Foun­da­tion burned the mort­gage for the grand­stand on Tues­day. The mort­gage, orig­i­nally for up to $500,000, was taken out in Sep­tem­ber of 2010, but was proudly paid off early. The foun­da­tion …

Two men were injured Tues­day morn­ing in a crash in DeKalb County. Indi­ana State Police say it hap­pened near County Road 51 when a Freight­liner truck dri­ven by 51 year old Michael Hep­h­ner of Angola went off the road, into a ditch and hit two trees. Hep­h­ner was taken by …

A Bryan native recently received a very high honor. Robert Lowe, son of Kris­tine Lowe of Bryan and the late Robert Lowe, has been named a recip­i­ent of a Pres­i­den­tial Fel­low­ship, the most com­pet­i­tive and pres­ti­gious award given by the grad­u­ate school at The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity. The Bryan Times …

A spe­cial meet­ing of the Wayne Trace Local Board of Edu­ca­tion was held Mon­day morn­ing and a new three-year con­tact for teach­ers, along with drug test­ing for high school students/athletes was approved. The teach­ers will be get­ting a 2.25 per­cent raise each year for the next three years. The drug …