Richard G. Hughart, Sr., age 68, of rural Hicksville, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at his home. Richard retired from Auburn Gear, where he had been a machine operator. He was a member of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, near Edgerton and was a former member of Bryan …

Donald W. Gilcher, Jr., 63, of Montpelier passed away early Wednesday morning at his home surrounded by his family.  He was born on June 27, 1951 in Bryan to Donald W. and Joann J. (Sidle) Gilcher, Sr.  Don graduated from Hilltop High School in 1969.  He then attended Tri State in Angola, Indiana …

A jury trial in a civil case involv­ing alleged asbestos expo­sure at Gen­eral Motors opened Tues­day in Defi­ance County Court. Fayrene Den­nis, the wife of for­mer Gen­eral Motors employee Johnny Den­nis, who died from lung can­cer at the age of 57 back in 2003, filed the suit against GM and …

Bryan High School’s head foot­ball coach is quit­ting. Kevin Kline , who was the dri­ving force behind the two most suc­cess­ful sea­sons in Bryan his­tory and has the best win­ning per­cent­age for a Golden Bears foot­ball coach, is turn­ing in his res­ig­na­tion, say­ing that he has accepted a teach­ing posi­tion …

If you plan to visit the Williams County Cour­t­house next month, bet­ter plan also on using the stairs. The ele­va­tor in the cour­t­house will be be out of ser­vice, begin­ning on Mon­day, May 18th, for about a month for repairs. The old ele­va­tor is get­ting tired. It was installed about …

Williams County Sher­iffs deputies made an arrest on Wednes­day afternoon…29 year old Tyler WIDE-LICK was arrested on a war­rant out of Ful­ton County Munic­pal court for fail­ure to appear on a charge of OVI. No other details were given.

With a tight bud­get and an aging fleet of more than two-dozen vehi­cles, The Williams County Depart­ment of Aging now says it will seek a levy in Novem­ber. The depart­ment has some 25 vehi­cles in its fleet, includ­ing at least a half-dozen that will need to be replaced soon due …

In Napoleon, the inves­ti­ga­tion into the death of a man is con­tin­u­ing, and now, a Napoleon man has been charged in con­nec­tion with the case. 18 year old Justin Dou­ble has been charged with reck­less homi­cide, a third-degree felony, and was being held on a $100,000 bond at the Cor­rec­tions …

The Pauld­ing Vil­lage Coun­cil passed an ordi­nance at their meet­ing this week, des­ig­nat­ing cer­tain streets as no through truck routes dur­ing con­struc­tion of the sewer’s sep­a­ra­tion project on North Williams Street. The new ordi­nance says that no through truck routes will be des­ig­nated with signs to be posted at entrance …

It looks like it’s gonna be costly to fix Bryan Power Plant’s No. 2 gas tur­bine… about $1.5 Mil­lion to be exact, accord­ing to Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties. The Bryan Times reports that for $1.325 mil­lion, Texas-based Sulzer Turbo Ser­vices Hous­ton Inc., could make min­i­mal repairs to get the unit run­ning …