A pro­posed Ohio bal­lot issue this fall would pos­si­bly legal­ize mar­i­juana. Sev­eral bal­lot issues are being con­sid­ered for Ohio vot­ers to decide, one of which involves the legal­iza­tion of mar­i­juana in the state. Locally, all area law enforce­ment agen­cies have come out against the pro­posed legal­iza­tion, say­ing that they all …

In West Unity, water deposits were a major topic of dis­cus­sion Thurs­day night dur­ing a meet­ing of vil­lage coun­cil. That’s because a pro­posed ordi­nance would have made land­lords respon­si­ble pay­ing the water bills for ten­ants who skip out with­out pay­ing. At the end of the night, coun­cil decided not to …

Norita Leppelmeier, age 79, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 2:20 A.M. on Thursday, March 12, 2015, at Hickory Creek Nursing Center in Hicksville, Ohio, where she was a resident. Mrs. Leppelmeier was a homemaker and drove school bus for Edgerton Local Schools for twenty-five years. She was an active member …

Unem­ploy­ment in the six-county region is a prob­lem, and it appears to be get­ting worse. The job­less rate here increased from Decem­ber to Jan­u­ary, accord­ing to fig­ures from the Ohio Depart­ment of Job and Fam­ily Ser­vices. In Jan­u­ary, the job­less rate in Williams County went up to 5.6 per­cent. It …

Bryan Police made an arrest in con­nec­tion with a break-in. On Thurs­day, 39 year old Joshua Budd, who listed no per­ma­nent address, was taken into cus­tody by Bryan Police, who then took him directly to CCNO, where he is being held behind bars. No fur­ther infor­ma­tion was made avail­able, includ­ing …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office found itself wrapped up in a phone scam. Some­body who went by the name “Vivian Green” has been call­ing folks lately, and iden­ti­fy­ing her­self as some­one work­ing for the Williams County Sheriff’s Office, and in those calls, this woman… Vivian Green if you will, tells …

A meet­ing was held Wednes­day after­noon in Napoleon, where the Henry County Regional Water and Sewer Dis­trict went over the results of a water sup­ply study. Tom Pogge­meyer, of Pogge­meyer Design Group Inc., from Bowl­ing Green, told the group that one issue with a ground water facil­ity, may be deal­ing …

On Wednes­day evening, Bryan Police picked up 36 year old Scott Levan­doski of Bryan, on three bench war­rants out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. The orig­i­nal charge was fail­ing to file city income taxes for 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was taken to court where bond was posted and he was …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil on Tues­day night, got an update on eco­nomic devel­op­ment mat­ters, took action on two rou­tine leg­isla­tive mat­ters, and was informed that an annual parks cleanup day has been resched­uled. In the first case, it was learned that ET Rover Pipeline, which plans to spend about $4.3 bil­lion …

A Bryan man who was already in deep trou­ble with the law for past offenses, learned on Wednes­day that he will be spend­ing a long, long time behind bars. 28 year old Richard Mojica, a twice con­victed rapist, was sen­tenced Wednes­day in Williams County Court, to a total of 21 …