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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 …

A light­ning bolt struck a Ful­ton County home Tues­day morn­ing. Fire­fight­ers were called out early yes­ter­day morn­ing just before 4a.m. to the home of Michael and Kath­leen Fis­cher on County Road S in Amboy Town­ship after light­ning struck the home. Fire dam­aged the back side of the house and dam­age …

Inde­pen­dence Day is this Fri­day, and that means many busi­nesses and offices will be closed for the day. In Bryan, all city offices will be closed to observe the hol­i­day. Also, all state and fed­eral offices will be closed that day as well. Garbage pickup in Bryan will how­ever, take …

In Steuben County, a lot of local char­i­ties will soon reap some finan­cial ben­e­fits. The estate of Burl and Mary Jane Hall has des­ig­nated over $676,000 to char­i­ta­ble enti­ties in their wills, includ­ing the Steuben County Com­mu­nity Foun­da­tion, Trine Uni­ver­sity, the First Con­gre­ga­tional Church of Angola, the Steuben County Humane …

The Rich­land Place/PATH Cen­ter in Defi­ance plans to dis­trib­ute USDA food com­modi­ties today from 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. Indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies that meet income eli­gi­bil­ity resid­ing in Defi­ance, Tinora or Ayersville school dis­tricts are wel­come to stop by and get some items. The dis­tri­b­u­tion list includes canned apple­sauce, canned pota­toes, …

A Put­nam County man is dead, and author­i­ties now say he drowned. The Put­nam County coro­ner con­firmed on Mon­day, that the cause of 59 year old Don­ald Burgei’s death was drown­ing. Burgei, of Ottoville, was swim­ming at a pond at this home on Put­nam County Road P in Mon­terey Town­ship, …

The Rich­land Place/PATH Cen­ter in Defi­ance plans to dis­trib­ute USDA food com­modi­ties tomor­row [WEDNESDAY] from 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. Indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies that meet income eli­gi­bil­ity resid­ing in Defi­ance, Tinora or Ayersville school dis­tricts are wel­come to stop by and get some items. The dis­tri­b­u­tion list includes canned apple­sauce, canned …