Louis “Lou” W. Harding, 75, of Pioneer, and formerly of Norwalk, passed away unexpectedly Friday morning as the result of a motor vehicle accident.  He was born on September 4, 1939 in Norwalk, Ohio to William Alonzo and Mary Loretta (Logan) Harding.  Lou proudly served his country in the United States Navy.  On …

Jane E. Bell-Beeker, 77, of Pioneer passed away early Saturday morning at Hillside Country Living in rural Bryan.  She was born on June 26, 1937 in Branch County Michigan to Clark Carydon and Helen Louise (Keith) Sellers.  Jane graduated from the Buckeye School of Nursing in Archbold.  On February 22, 1992 she married …

Mariano “Butch” Gomez, age 66, of rural Wauseon, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday evening December 25, 2014. Butch was born in Texas on January 22, 1948, the son of Francisco and Cleofas Gomez. Surviving is his wife, Barbara (Frame) and his brothers and sisters; Rogelio (Rose) Gomez of Archbold, Richardo …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol says a one-vehicle fatal traf­fic crash hap­pened on Ohio 108 near County Road L in Dover Town­ship, Ful­ton County. Accord­ing to the High­way Patrol, the crash hap­pened just before 3:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing when a Ford E-150, dri­ven by 36 year old Daniel Boff of Wauseon, …

A man from Pio­neer died Fri­day morn­ing in a two-vehicle crash in Williams County. The Ohio High­way Patrol says it hap­pened just after 8 Fri­day morn­ing on Ohio 15 in Jef­fer­son Town­ship, when 19 year old Joshua Tay­lor was head­ing north on 15, and his Chevy Sil­ver­ado went out of …

The Bryan Times reports that the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers will meet in reg­u­lar ses­sion today from 8:30 this morn­ing until noon and from 1 to 4:30 this after­noon, at the fourth floor of the cour­t­house. A long list of items is listed on today’s meet­ing agenda. The meet­ing is open …

Berneda P. Beck, age 92, of Archbold, passed away Friday morning, December 26, 2014 at Fairlawn Haven Nursing Home in Archbold, where she had resided the past several years. Prior to her retirement she had worked as a seamstress for the former Archbold Dry Goods Store. Berneda was born in …

Dolores June Robarge, age 84, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday, December 24, 2014, at her home. Dolores was a homemaker and helped her husband for many years with farming. She was a member of the First Brethren Church in Bryan and enjoyed her Sunday School classes there. One …

The hol­i­day sea­son is here. Yes­ter­day of course, was Christ­mas. Now, as we head for the next big hol­i­day, New Years Day, the National High­way Traf­fic Safety Admin­is­tra­tion wants to remind dri­vers that it’s dan­ger­ous to drive after drink­ing. The Williams County Health Department’s Safe Com­mu­nity pro­gram reminds dri­vers that …

Unem­ploy­ment in the six-county area, accord­ing to fig­ures just released by the Ohio Depart­ment of Job and Fam­ily Ser­vice, remained mostly unchanged from Octo­ber to Novem­ber. All of the local coun­ties had unem­ploy­ment rates below both the national and state rates of 5.5 per­cent and 4.5 per­cent respec­tively. The high­est …