Frank D. Taylor, 83, of Pioneer, and formerly of West Unity and Hudson, Michigan, passed away early Tuesday morning at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home in Montpelier.  He was born on September 24, 1930 in Rollin, Michigan to Kenneth Gaylord and Golda (Stahl) Taylor.  Frank served his country in the United States Army, …

If it is approved on the bal­lot, another Williams County dis­trict will have a new school. The Bryan Times reports that North Cen­tral Local Schools is ask­ing vot­ers to approve a 1.4-mill levy for 37 years to pay for a new high school that would con­nect to the junior high …

About 300 Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties cus­tomers lost power Tues­day evening. Bryan Munic­pal Util­i­ties reports that at about 7:30 last evening, power was lost on the main feeder out of the Daggett sub­sta­tion. Two elec­tric crews were called to make the repair. They found a bad insu­la­tor on County Road 16 …

It must finally be spring! Well, almost… The 2014 Farm­ers Mar­ket sea­son will open on May 22 on the north side of the cour­t­house square in Bryan. This year’s mar­ket will run until dusk and resume again at 7 a.m. Tues­day morn­ing, May 27, and run till noon. The mar­ket …

A stu­dent dri­ver and his instruc­tor ran a stop sign at an inter­sec­tion on Mon­day near Water­ville, and were hit by a mini­van. Both were killed in the crash. Police say the car made no attempt what­so­ever to stop, and was knocked off the road, then flipped over, and landed …

A man from Orland, Indi­ana is now dead after being injured Fri­day night in a Steuben County traf­fic acci­dent. 29-year-old Jeremy Maguire was flown to Parkview Regional Med­ical Cen­ter, where he later died. The Steuben County Sher­iffs Depart­ment says Maguire’s pickup truck went off of County Road 550 West near …

Gas prices are creep­ing closer to $4 a gal­lon, just as the sum­mer dri­ving sea­son is approach­ing. There was another spike of about 25 cents a gal­lon Tues­day. Prices in the Angola area hit $3.89 a gal­lon. Gas yes­ter­day was a slight bit cheaper in Ohio. Sta­tions in Edon and …

Some money is com­ing to Williams County to fund three com­mu­nity improve­ment projects this year. The county will be get­ting $73,600 in Com­mu­nity Devel­op­ment Block Grant fund­ing: The Bryan Times reports that the vil­lage of West Unity requested $20,000 to replace the floor of its com­mu­nity cen­ter. The vil­lage of …

Job­sO­hio reported Mon­day, that Unique-Chardan Inc. in Bryan will be expand­ing, adding 30 new jobs and retain­ing 52 oth­ers. Unique-Chardan is an advanced auto parts man­u­fac­turer, and was acquired ear­lier this year by Michigan-based Unique Fab­ri­cat­ing. Com­pany offi­cials had been con­sid­er­ing mov­ing oper­a­tions out of Ohio. Instead of relo­cat­ing though, …

The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity Exten­sion Ser­vice says we all should take a closer look at our water sup­plies. Accord­ing to the Ohio Depart­ment of Health and the Ohio Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, many peo­ple that live out­side of a rural water dis­trict or vil­lage, must rely on pri­vate wells for drink­ing …