Mark E. Bok, age 64, of rural Hicksville, Ohio, died unexpectedly on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at his home. Mr. Bok was a graduate of Fairview High School and then received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from The Ohio State University. He was formerly employed by the Columbus …

Earth Day is this week, but a Bryan busi­ness does its part every day to help pro­tect the envi­ron­ment. WiltonKeck Recy­cling started up last year and, in eight months of oper­a­tion, has recy­cled about 115 tons of paper mate­r­ial, the equiv­a­lent of about 2,000 trees. They’ve also sent over 200,000 …

The Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office is ask­ing for the public’s help in locat­ing two peo­ple who failed to appear in court. Alvin Gerkin of Napoleon is wanted on a felony vio­la­tion of parole. Angel Gon­za­lez of Fos­to­ria is wanted on a felony forgery charge. Nei­ther man showed up for their …

50 new full-time jobs are com­ing to Williams County, thanks to a road­work project grant. State sen­a­tor Cliff Hite made the announce­ment yes­ter­day that the vil­lage of Pio­neer received a $500,000 Road­work Devel­op­ment Grant from the state to extend Clark Street to Core Way Drive, mak­ing a con­nec­tion to High­way …

A pair of Arch­bold High School stu­dents are in hot water for cir­cu­lat­ing nude pic­tures via text mes­sage with other stu­dents. The two 17-year-olds, whose names have not been released due to their age, are fac­ing felony charges. Three addi­tional juve­niles are look­ing at mis­de­meanor charges in the case, which …

39-year-old Jimmy Mat­ney of Defi­ance died from a heroin over­dose on Dec. 27, 2013. Now, the man who sold him the drugs has been con­victed for Matney’s death. 32-year-old Robert R. Kramer was found guilty of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter fol­low­ing a three-day trial in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Sen­tenc­ing is …

Betty Jean Sanders, age 87, of Montpelier, Ohio, and a longtime resident of Bryan, Ohio, died at 5:00 A.M. on Monday, April 20, 2015, at Park View Nursing Center in Edgerton, Ohio, where she was a patient, after an extended illness. Mrs. Sanders was a 1946 graduate of Bryan High …

Cinda S. Meyer, age 72, of Wauseon, passed away on Sunday, April 19, 2015, in her home. Cinda was born in Lightsville, Ohio on September 28, 1942, the daughter of Lloyd and Elidine (Oswald) Winterrowd. On June 1, 1963 she married Paul E. Meyer, and he survives. Also surviving is …

Opal V. Kimberly, age 93, of Evansport, passed away in her home on Monday, April 20, 2015. She had been a housewife and in the 1950’s she worked at the former Eddie’s Glass Bar in Stryker, where she met her husband, John. She also helped John on the family farm. …

A com­puter virus that affected thou­sands of web­sites also hit the Arch­bold Area School Dis­trict web­site last week, accord­ing to the Bryan Times. The virus dis­played a mes­sage claim­ing to be from the the ter­ror­ist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, bet­ter known as ISIS. So far, no dam­age …