News Staff The City of Bryan is updating its planning and zoning code, and along with it at least one city board. A large part of the changes are to eliminate processes and regulations not used by the city any longer, as well as some terminology and redundancies. Officials say…the changes trimmed the document down by about … Read more
The Bryan city council passes an ordinance…to ban adult use cannabis operations in the city, but may discuss the issue again as more information is available. Council passed final reading on one ordinance which prohibits adult use cannabis operators, cultivators and dispensaries within the city altogether. It tabled another ordinance, which was also up for … Read more
A solo crash leaves a woman in critical condition in Grabill. Officials say…as the car she’s in… goes off the road…heading southbound on Page Road, just south of Antwerp Road…colliding into a utility pole and a fence, while rolling several times. The victim is thrown from the wreckage, officials confirm. The driver…a man…survives…in serious condition. … Read more
This fall’s fight over abortion rights in Ohio cost a combined $70 million, campaign finance reports show. Voters overwhelming passed November’s Issue 1, which guaranteed an individual’s right “to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” making Ohio the seventh state where voters opted to protect abortion access in the wake of the U.S. … Read more
The Defiance County commissioners update a project to rehabilitate the elevator in the courthouse. The project plans were presented and it is expected it will be ready for bids to be opened in late January or early February, officials tell area reporters. The board also went into executive session with Executive Director of Economic Development, … Read more
The Williams County commissioners agree to extend a property purchase agreement, as well as appointing a person to the county district library board. They approved extending the agreement with Crossed Rifles, LLC, for property located on North Main Street…part of some property purchased in September, along with another plot on N. Main St., that provides … Read more
The Indiana State Police is investigating a two semi crash on I-69. First responders from Steuben County, respond to the fiery accident…under the overpass bridge for the eastbound lanes that lead to the I-80 Toll plaza. Then they get there…one big rig’s trailer is fully engulfed in flames…the other…with heavy damage the tractor cab. The … Read more
A structure fire in unincorporated Columbia requires assistance from fire departments across three states. The Fremont Fire Department is called to assist the Northwest Township Fire Department…for a situation that also had a potential hazmat problem. The blaze takes roughly three hours to clear. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire has not … Read more
The Indiana State Police is investigating a three vehicle crash along the eastbound toll plaza located at the 153 mile marker on I-80 in Steuben County, 4 miles west of the Indiana/Ohio State Line. Officials say… Edwin Bottelman, 73, of Greeley, Iowa was behind the wheel of a semi. Prior to the crash Bottelman was … Read more
The Biden administration has initiated a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train derailment earlier this year in eastern Ohio. The Environmental Protection Agency will review risks posed by a handful of chemicals, including vinyl chloride, which … Read more