Mon­day is Labor Day, and in obser­vance of the hol­i­day, all city, county, state and fed­eral offices will be closed Mon­day. Other changes in sched­ules include post offices. In Bryan, the post office win­dow will be closed, and there will be no reg­u­lar mail deliv­ery. The License bureau will be …

Among the list of indict­ments handed down this week by the Williams County grand jury, were those of three men who are accused of thefts of firearms. 34 year old Michael Moser faces nine felony counts on charges that back in May, he stole a Mar­lin 17 HMR rifle, a …

The new Alert 86 sys­tem in Williams County is pow­er­ful, but county lead­ers remind res­i­dents that they must sign up to get the alerts. You can sign up at the Ohio Means Jobs office in the East Annex build­ing on E. High St. if you don’t have Inter­net access at …

A Defi­ance man died Mon­day evening when he drowned in a pond on his prop­erty. 64 year old Ter­rence Kid­well of Dohoney Road, was pro­nounced dead at the scene after emer­gency per­son­nel were called just after 7 Mon­day night to the Kid­well res­i­dence. The call indi­cated that there was a …

14 peo­ple have been indicted for var­i­ous crimes by a Williams County Grand Jury. 19 year old Gar­ret Wise of Defi­ance; 36 year old Damon Cook of Angola; 47 year old Duane Mur­ray of Edger­ton; 23 year old Michael Love­joy of Bryan; 20 year old Jalen Lon­go­ria of Wauseon; 28 …

The future of pro­grams often referred to as shel­tered work­shops was dis­cussed by the mem­bers of the Quadco Admin­is­tra­tive and Non-Profit Boards at their reg­u­lar meet­ing on Tues­day. Board mem­bers dis­cussed a news story about a plan in New York to phase out shel­tered work­shops in that state in the …

Richard H. Carteyn, 82 years, of Hicksville, and formerly of Farmer, passed away Friday, August 22, 2014 at Hickory Creek at Hicksville.  Richard was born July 28, 1932 in Bryan, the son of the late Achiel and Myrtle (Donley) Carteyn.  Richard was an Army Veteran serving during the Korean Conflict.  He was employed …

Jerry L. Tracy, age 69, of Wauseon, passed away unexpectedly on Monday morning, August 25, 2014 at the Fulton County Health Center. Jerry was a Pastor with the Adullam Prison Ministry in Ohio and South Carolina. He also ministered to the homeless at Toledo Gospel Mission on Jefferson Avenue every …

Dean A Beamont Sr,75 of Stryker died Monday August 25, 2014 at Fairlawn Haven in Archbold, Ohio He was born April 13,1939 in Columbus Ohio to the late Gerald and Helen (Snow) Beamont. On September 10, 1966 he married Irene L (Johns) Beamont, who died March 4th, 2003 Dean was …

Mercy Defi­ance Clinic is warn­ing of fraud­u­lent phone calls being made by scam­mers claim­ing to rep­re­sent the clinic. They say scam­mers are mak­ing ran­dom calls claim­ing to be a col­lec­tion agency work­ing for Mercy Defi­ance Clinic. The callers tell the recip­i­ent that they have an over­due account bal­ance and they …