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Goodyear Plans New $500 Million Tire Plant

Goodyear is start­ing to explore where to locate a new $500 mil­lion tire plant that it hopes to open within three years. Goodyear says it intends to con­struct a state-of-the-art fac­tory that would make about 6 mil­lion tires a year. The tire maker says its search is wide open, and …

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150 BHS Seniors Receive Diplomas

The Bryan High School class of 2014 have received their diplo­mas. 150 seniors took part in the school’s 136th annual grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mony Sun­day after­noon at Golden Bear Sta­dium. Bryan City Schools Super­in­ten­dent Diana Sav­age pre­sented the Ohio Hon­ors Diploma recip­i­ents, Coun­selor Kim Bas­sett announced the Top Ten Per­cent stu­dents and …

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Hilltop High Scholars Honored

Schol­ar­ships were announced and awards were given out for out­stand­ing stu­dents and GPAs at the recent 22nd Annual Aca­d­e­mic Awards Ban­quet at Hill­top High School. The guest speaker was Dr. Shea Walkup, a 1995 Hill­top grad­u­ate. He cur­rently is a den­tist with the Bryan Den­tal Group.

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War Memorial Moving Toward Defiance

The Mov­ing Wall-Vietnam Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial will be on dis­play in Defi­ance next month to com­mem­o­rate the 50th anniver­sary of the start of the Viet­nam War. The wall will be escorted into town on the morn­ing of June 12th by a pro­ces­sion of motor­cy­cles and will be erected on Web­ster Street …

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Construction Underway for New School

Con­struc­tion at the site of the new Napoleon Ele­men­tary School is ramp­ing up as the school year comes to a close. The new school on West­morelnd Avenue is expected to be fin­ished for the start of the 2015-’16 school year. A new junior high wing is also being added to …

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Betty Schrepferman, 93

Betty Josephine (Lambert) Schrepferman, 93 years, of Hamilton, passed away Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at Cameron Memorial Community Hospital, Angola. Betty was born January 11, 1921 in Howard County, Indiana, the daughter of the late Orion “Ora” Preble and Flora Alice (Flynt) Lambert.  She was raised on a farm near Kokomo, …

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Eva Michael, 82

Eva A. Michael, 82 years, of Bryan, passed away Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at her home, with her family at her side.  She was under the care of Community Health Professionals Hospice.  Eva was born February 20, 1932 in Fulton County, Ohio, the daughter of the late Ensign P. and Mildred M. …

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Have You Been Vaccinated?

State health offi­cials urg­ing Ohio res­i­dents to ensure they’re vac­ci­nated for measles and mumps say grad­u­a­tion cel­e­bra­tions and sum­mer travel can be oppor­tu­ni­ties for such dis­eases to spread if peo­ple don’t take pre­ven­ta­tive mea­sures. At least 396 cases of mumps have been con­firmed in an out­break of the con­ta­gious viral …

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Rep. Latta Meets With Vets About VA Scandal

Con­gress­man Bob Latta held a series of lis­ten­ing ses­sions for vet­er­ans in his dis­trict this week amid con­cerns about the Depart­ment of Vet­er­ans Affairs report­edly delay­ing care and fab­ri­cat­ing doc­u­ments to cover it up. The meet­ings were held in Per­rys­burg, Find­lay and Definance

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School Bus Crash in Indiana

Nine peo­ple were injured when a school bus car­ry­ing 47 stu­dents col­lided with a dump truck in north­ern Indi­ana yes­ter­day. Seven stu­dents and two adults were taken to the hos­pi­tal, then returned to the Wawasee Mid­dle School in Syra­cuse, where they were met by school nurses while par­ents were noti­fied. …

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