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In news that affects your wal­let, the local econ­omy is improv­ing. The Ohio Treasurer’s Office reports that sales tax dis­tri­b­u­tions are up more than a half mil­lion dol­lars from March to August this year. July was the biggest sales month, March was the slow­est. Accord­ing to the Depart­ment of Labor, …

The E. coli out­break at Chipo­tle restau­rants has now hit Ohio. The CDC says new cases have been reported in Cal­i­for­nia, New York and Ohio. The affected Ohio loca­tion is report­edly in Akron. TheCDC is try­ing to deter­mine the spe­cific food that is linked to the ill­ness. So far, the …

New info this morn­ing about Bradly Gilbert. He’s charged with the mur­der of Jonathon Hofner of Wauseon. Last week, Gilbert entered a “not guilty by rea­son of insan­ity” plea in Williams County Court of Com­mon Pleas. After Hofner’s body was found on a hik­ing trail in Mont­pe­lier on Octo­ber 26th, …

Bryan Mid­dle School was evac­u­ated Thurs­day after­noon after a bomb threat was found in one of the school’s bath­rooms. Bryan Police, Ohio State Patrol, Williams County Sheriff’s and Bryan Fire depart­ments responded. They would not com­ment on any pos­si­ble sus­pects, or motives. A press release from Bryan City Schools stated …

Just 30 miles north of Bryan, human skele­tal remains were dis­cov­ered near U.S. 127 in Hills­dale County Michi­gan. They were found on prop­erty where con­struc­tion crews were dig­ging in a pile of stone on 127, between Fayette and Hudson. Police brought in anthro­pol­o­gists from Michi­gan State Uni­ver­sity. They deter­mined that …

The Napoleon Area Board of Edu­ca­tion learned that con­struc­tion of the new Napoleon Ele­men­tary School is expected to be fin­ished by the end of Novem­ber, heard dis­cus­sion about options for soc­cer facil­i­ties in the dis­trict and entered into an agree­ment autho­riz­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion Coop­er­a­tive Pur­chas­ing …

Local drug agents arrested a Defi­ance man while exe­cut­ing a search war­rant at his home. 26-year-old Dustin Boroff was booked on heroin charges. 28-year-old Ash­ley Dal­ton was arrested on a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion and pos­ses­sion of heroin. The Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force found heroin and drug para­pher­na­lia in the search. The pair …

A Defi­ance man has been sen­tenced to spend 10 years in prison for drug traf­fick­ing and bur­glary. 26-year-old Andrew Smith pleaded guilty to traf­fick­ing cocaine and sec­ond degree bur­glary in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Judge Joseph Schmenk sen­tenced him to 11 years and ordered Smith pay about $4,300 in restitution.

Kids of all ages will wel­come Santa Claus on the Bryan Square on Black Fri­day at 6:30 p.m. The parade begins at 6 in the Parkview Physi­cians Group park­ing lot, east on High St., south on Main, then around the square toward Bryan High School. The event runs till 9 …

The Cen­tral Local School board voted unan­i­mously approved putting a bond levy and income tax issue on the March 2016 bal­lot for vot­ers to decide. First, the income tax, if approved, would be for 0.25 per­cent on tax­able income of indi­vid­u­als and estates, col­lected over 23 years. Dis­trict offi­cials said …