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Defiance’s 2016 bud­get is now in the books. The coun­cil approved it on Tues­day dur­ing its last meet­ing of this year. Next years bud­get is a lit­tle over $52 mil­lion. Next years bud­get pro­poses adding new employ­ees includ­ing an addi­tional engi­neer­ing technician.

The Mont­pe­lier Senior Cen­ter just received a $35,000 dona­tion from the estate of Jim Treer. He was a well-liked vis­i­tor to the cen­ter and a retired employee of Hutch’s Tow­ing and Recov­ery. He passed away on Octo­ber 29 at the age of 72. The dona­tion will go to the main­te­nance …

Bryan City Schools Board of Edu­ca­tion Pres­i­dent Glenn New­comer gave an update on the progress of the build­ing for grades six through 12. He said there’s a lot of con­struc­tion going on. He said work­ers are fin­ish­ing the out­side work and will pre­pare to move the focus inside the build­ing …

The Red Cross of Henry County is hold­ing a blood drive next Tues­day. It will be at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Napoleon from noon until 6 PM. There will be free T-shirts for donors, and walk-ins are wel­come. For your con­ve­nience you can make an appoint­ment by call­ing 800-RED …

An Edger­ton teacher is being inves­ti­gated for an alleged sex­ual rela­tion­ship with a 15 year old stu­dent while work­ing for Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage Schools. Offi­cials are not nam­ing the teacher yet and it’s unclear if the teacher has been sus­pended pend­ing the out­come of the inves­ti­ga­tion, or has been fired. …

Tox­i­col­ogy reports haven’t come back yet and that’s caus­ing a delay for the man accused of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter, 26-year-old Andrew Marin of Payne. His pre­trial hear­ing has now been resched­uled for a fourth time, while they wait for the results. Mar­tin pleaded not guilty in Sep­tem­ber to invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter, two …

A Delta man was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Ful­ton County Mon­day. The dri­ver, 24-year-old Jacob Bald­win was pro­nounced dead at the scene in the county’s Swan Creek Town­ship, accord­ing to the Ohio High­way Patrol. Bald­win was dri­ving a pickup truck north on Town­ship Road 4–1 near County Road …

Down­town is pretty and all, but the Christ­mas dec­o­ra­tions will be com­ing down on Sun­day so they can get started on the cour­t­house repair project. The exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Bryan Area Cham­ber of Com­merce said that final con­tracts were signed on Mon­day to repair the inside and out­side of …

The March 15th Repub­li­can pri­mary will have two hotly con­tested county com­mis­sioner seats up for elec­tion, with five can­di­dates who want the jobs. One of those can­di­dates will run as an inde­pen­dent, after he indi­cated he will with­draw his Repub­li­can Party peti­tion. Rod­ney Miller has already been approved as the …

A rou­tine traf­fic stop led to the arrest of a dri­ver after the trooper smelled pot. The man, 28-year-old John Lee, is from New York. He was pulled over for speed­ing on the Ohio Turn­pike at Exit 13 on Mon­day morn­ing. As soon as the trooper smelled mar­i­juana, he called …