News Staff The unemployed in Ohio will be required to resume weekly work-search activities as part of future applications for unemployment payments. The new requirement begins the week of May 23, Gov., DeWine said in a statement. It’s not going unnoticed…Ohio business owners are creating jobs faster than people are returning to the workforce.
The Treasury Department says Ohio will receive nearly $5.4 billion dollars in aid…as part of President, Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package…with another $6.6 billion going directly to counties, cities and townships. In all…34 Ohio cities, three large townships and all 88 counties will receive the payments, part of the $350 billion dollar program, created … Read more
Some folks in Montpelier make their opposition known…for any possible medicinal marijuana dispensary in the village at a Monday evening. All this…in response to the proceedings back on the 26th…when Megan Hausch, executive director of the Williams County Economic Development Corporation, asked village officials if they’d be open to opening a dispensary in the village. … Read more
Bryan City Schools students will not have to pay for lunches next year…but the board of education may look to renew its current emergency operating levy at some point, officials tell reporters. School district officials opened Monday night’s school board meeting…by reporting the Department of Agriculture extended its Seamless Summer Grant…providing those free lunches for … Read more
Nice people…doing nice things. Word is, one Bryan park is getting a little more musical, thanks in large part to an anonymous donor. City officials confirm it…eight thousand dollars from someone…plus 21 hundred from the Kiwanis Club of Bryan…will install additional equipment at East End Park. It will be musical mushroom caps…installed by a Chattanooga … Read more
The Bryan City Band will start rehearsing for its 170th season, next Tuesday. Covid protocols…rehearsals will be held in the Bryan High School cafeteria. Area wind and percussion instrumentalists…interesting in becoming a member of this longstanding community tradition are urged to come to the first rehearsal with their instrument. No auditions are necessary. All concerts … Read more
In Defiance County…Gilberto Villarreal is pulled over…to verify compliance with conditions of his parole. Officers find $4 grand in cash and four grams of white powder…suspected to be methamphetamine and fentanyl. Villarreal then consents to a search of his home in Defiance. Agents find a 9 mm handgun and ammunition in the residence, along with … Read more
An Indiana woman is flown from the scene of a head-on collision with a big rig on U.S. 20…between County Road 12 and the St. Joseph River, northwest of Holiday City. Officials tell reporters Judy Moore, of Wolcottville, was westbound on 20…that’s when her SUV crosses the center line…hitting another SUV…causing it to overturn off … Read more
Transgender girls would be banned from participating in female sports teams in high school or college…in two bills, introduced by GOP lawmakers in Ohio…which becomes the latest state to take up the contentious debate. The proposals, titled the Save Women’s Sports Act, would require schools and higher education institutions in the state to designate “separate … Read more
In Defiance County…a man dies after losing control of his vehicle…going off the side of State Road 2…near the intersection of Farmer Mark Road. Investigators say Tyler McIntosh, of Montpelier was heading southwest on 2…when he suddenly veers off the right side of the roadway, he then corrects…flying across to the other shoulder…hitting a tree. … Read more