Barbara Jean Kurtz, age 59, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Friday, August 1, 2014, at Indiana University Hospital in Indianapolis where she had been a patient. She was a homemaker and graduated High School through James Madison University. Barbara was born May 17, 1955, in Wauseon, Ohio, the daughter …

The Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office announced on Fri­day, that they have received a new per­ma­nent drug dis­posal box, which is now avail­able for res­i­dents to dis­pose of unneeded or unwanted pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions. It’s located at the Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office, just inside the lobby. The box is a safe alter­na­tive …

Fire­fight­ers from three area fire depart­ments were called out Sun­day to a house fire in Defi­ance. The call came in just after 3 yes­ter­day after­noon, and fire­fight­ers rushed to 336 North­wood Drive for a man who had report­edly caught fire. When they got there, they also found a two-story home …

The Ohio High­way Patrol is inves­ti­gat­ing a crash that hap­pened Fri­day after­noon on the Ohio Turn­pike in Ful­ton County. Police say it hap­pened just before 3:30 Fri­day after­noon when a con­ver­sion van dri­ven by 49 year old Rosa Bar­rios of Illi­nois went out of con­trol, ran off the right side …

As news reports over the week­end told about Toledo and sur­round­ing areas deal­ing with a water cri­sis, our water here in Williams County is report­edly safe. The Bryan Times is report­ing that no com­mu­ni­ties in Williams County were affected by the advi­sory issued by the city of Toledo. How­ever, as …

Today is the fist day of August, National Immu­niza­tion Aware­ness Month, time for par­ents to plan to take their school-age kids for their vac­ci­na­tions. Don’t for­get that here in Ohio, immu­niza­tions are required for chil­dren start­ing pre-school. The cost of most child­hood vac­ci­na­tions at the health depart­ment is $10 per …

The Henry County Com­mis­sion­ers this week, approved a res­o­lu­tion to place a levy on the bal­lot to pro­vide finan­cial sup­port for Coun­tryview Haven. It’s a 1.6 mill levy, cov­er­ing the next three years, which they say will pro­vide fund­ing for main­tain­ing and oper­at­ing the county home in Henry County. Also …

Williams County is work­ing on a new instant alert sys­tem, designed to get emer­gency infor­ma­tion out to peo­ple faster and more effi­ciently. It’s being called Alert86.com, but don’t let the name fool you. It’s far from just another web­site. Soon, it will be vis­i­ble every­where, and it will have it’s …

Wauseon Police arrested 24 year old Kyle Stipp of Arch­bold Tues­day and charged him with first-degree aggra­vated rob­bery in con­nec­tion with a holdup at the Con­ti­nen­tal Drive Thru Carry Out in Waseon. Police say Stipp used a gun in the rob­bery, and made off with some cash in the rob­bery …

Defi­ance police have arrested a woman in con­nec­tion with a shoot­ing that hap­pened on Tues­day. 44 year old Pauletta Sali­nas of Defi­ance is now charged with felo­nious assault and is being held at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. Her ini­tial appear­ance in Defi­ance Munic­i­pal Court is set for tomor­row …