Six peo­ple were hurt in a two vehi­cle crash Tues­day morn­ing on U.S. 24. Ohio High­way Patrol troop­ers say it hap­pened Tues­day morn­ing around 10 at the inter­sec­tion of US 24 and Inde­pen­dence Road in Defi­ance County. 77 year old John Davis of Defi­ance was north­bound on Inde­pen­dence Road accord­ing …

Now THIS is going to be an auc­tion! Auc­tions America’s Auburn Spring sale will include roughly 450 cars at no reserve from the John Scotti col­lec­tion from Mon­treal, Canada. The auc­tion runs today through Sat­ur­day at the Auburn Auc­tion Park in Auburn, IN. The col­lec­tion of cars tends toward Amer­i­can …

Bryan city vot­ers approved the renewal of the city’s one-half per­cent income tax. The levy passed with 622 votes in favor of the tax, and 277 against, how­ever those results are still unof­fi­cial. Mayor Doug John­son, after the final results were posted, told the Bryan Times that there will be …

Jason Rockey lost his bid to replace 81st House Dis­trict Rep. Lynn Wacht­mann in the Novem­ber gen­eral elec­tion to Robert McCol­ley of Napoleon. In the State Sen­ate First Dis­trict race, incum­bent Cliff Hite won Williams County and the state. In the Repub­li­can State Cen­tral Com­mit­tee men’s 1st Dis­trict race, James …

The Defi­ance County Board of Elec­tions reports that the Defi­ance City School District’s $11,714,657 bond issue to build new mid­dle school and high school build­ings passed 1,802 votes (56.29 per­cent) to 1,399 (43.71 per­cent). Again, all results are unof­fi­cial until finalized.

Pauld­ing County vot­ers rejected a renewal levy for the county library sys­tem. Accord­ing unof­fi­cial results, the 2.17-mill, five-year renewal levy for the Pauld­ing County Carnegie Library Sys­tem was defeated. The levy would have brought $694,576.94 a year to the library dis­trict, accord­ing to infor­ma­tion from the Pauld­ing County auditor’s office. …

Adrian—Janice Elaine (Butler) Menchhofer was called home on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at Hospice of Lenawee, Adrian, MI.  She was born on September 28, 1947 to William Robert ‘Bob’ Butler and Florence (England) Butler.  She was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Ronald D. Hughes, and brother, Kenneth E. …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Depart­ment, along with offi­cers in Hills­dale County, Mich., are seek­ing the public’s assis­tance in locat­ing a man in con­nec­tion with a sex­ual assault in Hills­dale County. They say the man had a firearm when he forced his way into the victim’s home. Inves­ti­ga­tors say it’s the …

A new leader for an estab­lished area com­pany… Bill Mar­tin is now the new pres­i­dent and chief finan­cial offi­cer of the Span­gler Candy Com­pany. Mar­tin is the company’s eighth pres­i­dent and he is the first non-family-member to hold the posi­tion in the his­tory of the 108-year-old com­pany. Accord­ing to the …

Jamie Egler, cit­ing per­sonal rea­sons, has turned in his res­ig­na­tion from the Williams County Senior Fair Board, effec­tive retroac­tively to April 28 accord­ing to the Bryan Times. Egler was first elected board pres­i­dent two years ago. He served as vice pres­i­dent for two years before that. All in all, Egler …