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Peo­ple love incen­tives when there is a com­pe­ti­tion. And in Ayersville, a bet between Assis­tant Prin­ci­ple Kirk Jones and Ele­men­tary Prin­ci­pal Beth Hench sparked a lot of dona­tions for a food drive to help needy fam­i­lies. Turns out, when the final tally came in, the super­in­tent­dent he would make up …

The Rich­land Place PATH Cen­ter was the place for the annual Christ­mas party for Com­mu­nity Cares project. The event held Sat­ur­day included din­ner, fel­low­ship and a place to con­nect dur­ing a dif­fi­cult time of year for many in our community.

Sev­eral arrested were made over the week­end. The Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force detained five peo­ple while exe­cut­ing a search war­rant for meth in Bryan. Uni­formed Bryan cops cor­doned off the area of S. Lynn St. and under­cover agents in ski masks assisted. Police got a tip about chil­dren being in …

Lay­offs are com­ing to Titan Tire in Bryan, at least 130 employ­ees will be laid off next year. Titan Tire man­age­ment noti­fied the Ohio Office of Work­force Devel­op­ment of the com­ing lay­offs. The company’s oper­a­tions man­ager, Thomas Ort, said that weak mar­ket con­di­tions are are not expected to improve dur­ing …

A man indicted for allegedly steal­ing from the Leip­sic Post Office while employed there this sum­mer will have a pre-trial con­fer­ence on Jan. 26. 20-year-old Dou­glas Bush entered a not guilty plea on mis­ap­pro­pri­a­tion of funds, which is a fed­eral charge. He is free on a $10,000 unse­cured bond. Bush …

U.S. Navy Petty Offi­cer 2nd Class Ran­dall Smith will be awarded the Pur­ple Heart pos­tu­mously. The Pauld­ing native died July 18 dur­ing the domes­tic ter­ror­ist attack on the Navy Oper­a­tions Sup­port Cen­ter in Chat­tanooga, Tenn. Smith was 26 when he died. More than 1,000 peo­ple attended the local ser­vices for …

Defi­ance City Schools super­in­ten­dent Mike Stru­ble held a sec­ond com­mu­nity pre­sen­ta­tion at Defi­ance Com­mu­nity Audi­to­rium. The topic was edu­ca­tion. Stru­ble went over pre­lim­i­nary results of the state report card, the finan­cial sta­tus of the dis­trict and the progress of construction. Prin­ci­pals have received only pre­lim­i­nary results for the 2014–15 school …

A BOLO alert, “Be on the Look­out”, was sent to Stryker and Spring­field Town­ship res­i­dents though the county’s Alert86 instant mes­sag­ing sys­tem. Many of the mes­sages got through, but oth­ers didn’t. Accord­ing to the direc­tor of the Williams County Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency Dawn Bald­win, the record­ing went to land­lines but …

If you’re dream­ing of a White Christ­mas, you may want to stay in bed. That pesky El Nino is keep­ing warm air over us and the National Weather Ser­vice says Santa will prob­a­bly need an umbrella, with rain pos­si­ble. In fact, the week before Christ­mas, at this point, the temps …

The Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs mem­ber Al Horn has retired. The 93-year-old com­mu­nity leader has served on the board since his appoint­ment in 2004. And Horn is going out on top. This year he was inducted into the Ohio Senior Cit­i­zens Hall of Fame in May. Then he was …