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Offi­cials will look into the finan­cial impact if one or more juris­dic­tions pull away from the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio regional jail although one Lucas County com­mis­sioner repeat­edly said no final deci­sions have been made. Accord­ing to a press release from CCNO, dur­ing a spe­cial hour-long meet­ing of the …

Troop­ers with the Ohio High­way Patrol are inves­ti­gat­ing a fatal crash that occurred Mon­day morn­ing around 8 on US-224 in Van Wert County. A vehi­cle dri­ven by 18 year old Matthew Niemeyer was west­bound on U.S. 224 when he missed a curve, ran off the road, and then hit a …

The Williams County Pub­lic Library in Bryan has a leaky roof. Fol­low­ing last win­ter, the library suf­fered numer­ous roof leaks in the Main Library build­ing and the Local His­tory Cen­ter, one of which caused a small fire in the ceil­ing that forced the library to close for a day. How­ever, …

A spe­cial meet­ing of the North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees will be held today at noon in the McDougle Cen­ter. The board will go into exec­u­tive ses­sion to con­sider the dis­missal of pub­lic employ­ees and to review col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing strate­gies. Accord­ing to a news release from the col­lege, …

Some folks in Ful­ton County are express­ing their dis­plea­sure with a county pol­icy man­dat­ing that pit bulls be euth­a­nized unless claimed by their right­ful own­ers. The ani­mal advo­cacy group Ful­ton County No Kill, together with the Ohio Coali­tion of Dog Advo­cates, now plans to fight for the repeal of a …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion school dis­trict report cards were issued last week, and lit­tle improve­ment was shown for Williams County schools. The Bryan Times today reports that of the seven schools in Williams County, six received a B and one only received a C, accord­ing to the state’s per­for­mance …

The United Way of Defi­ance County has kicked off the 2014–15 cam­paign. This year’s cam­paign is enti­tled “Tak­ing Action and Chang­ing Lives in Defi­ance County.“ Dona­tions to the United Way help fund 22 pro­grams with agency and com­mu­nity part­ners. The cam­paign goal this year is to get 500 new donors …

Hicksville Exempted Vil­lage School offi­cials have released a state­ment in response to a Hicksville Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion law­suit filed ear­lier this year. The school’s attor­ney has filed a reply to the suit reg­is­tered in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court by the teach­ers union on behalf of Amber Apt. In it’s reply, …

If you tried to mail a let­ter from the Bryan Post Office yes­ter­day, you prob­a­bly ran into some dif­fi­culty. That’s because it was closed. The postal ser­vice shut down the Bryan Post Office on Wednes­day, for what they termed “tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties”. Accord­ing to postal author­i­ties, the clo­sure was due to …

The Ful­ton County Sheriff’s Office has released the results of a Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over traf­fic blitz which began on Aug. 15 and ended Sept. 1. Deputies made 94 traf­fic stops and issued 50 cita­tions. 44 were speed vio­la­tions, two cita­tions for dri­ving under sus­pen­sion or revoked driver’s …