The Bryan Times this morn­ing is report­ing a story about a dog res­cue over the week­end. Dixie, an 11-year-old Lab-shepherd mix, along with another dog, ended up at the Rails to Trails foot­bridge that crosses Beaver Creek. Dixie appar­ently wan­dered, fell, or was knocked down the embank­ment and became trapped …

The Defi­ance State High­way Patrol Post is inves­ti­gat­ing a crash that occurred on Plat­ter Creek road, south of Jeri­cho road, in Defi­ance County. The crash occurred around 12:05 am Fri­day morn­ing. The dri­ver, 344 year old Jason Edds of Cecil, Ohio, was first taken by ambu­lance to the Defi­ance Regional …

Begin­ning Sun­day, dri­vers could legally drive 70 mph on the new U.S. 24 from Water­ville to just west of Napoleon. The new speed lim­its, effec­tive yes­ter­day, come fol­low­ing an over­haul of state high­way speed lim­its. The new speed limit applies to both cars and trucks, but in some cases the …

If you like ribs, then hope­fully you didn’t miss this past weekend’s Rib Fest in Defi­ance. Down­town Defi­ance was the place to be for rib-lovers dur­ing the city’s fifth annual rib fest on Sat­ur­day. Saturday’s fes­ti­val was spon­sored by The State Bank and Gen­eral Motors, and fea­tured local food ven­dors …

Bryan Police report the sev­eral arrests from Thurs­day… 28 year old Tiffany Risk of Mont­pe­lier was arrested for shoplift­ing. Risk was turned over to West Unity Police, who were hold­ing two war­rants on her at the time of that arrest. 32 year old Troy Ward of Bryan was arrested and …

As part of her Mid­west book tour, author Shirley Showal­ter will be at Sauder Vil­lage next week, on Octo­ber 3 and 4, to pro­mote her new book. Guests will have an oppor­tu­nity to meet Ms. Showal­ter at an evening book sign­ing and can also attend a free lec­ture Fri­day morn­ing …

A deci­sion on whether or not to pro­ceed any fur­ther with the pro­posed ren­o­va­tion of Defi­ance County’s cour­t­house has been delayed. Offi­cials had planned to decide dur­ing county com­mis­sion­ers meet­ing Thurs­day on whether to allow a Colum­bus archi­tec­tural firm to con­tinue with the project. That deci­sion was to have been …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office has released a state­ment say­ing that a Williams County man who had been reported miss­ing has been located. 73 year old Richard Down­ing was located by Penn­syl­va­nia State Police near New Cas­tle, Pa. after State Police there responded to a call of a dis­abled vehi­cle …

The thought of annex­a­tion of the Gen­eral Motors Defi­ance Cast­ing Oper­a­tions plant by the city of Defi­ance has gen­er­ated a less than enthu­si­as­tic response from GM offi­cials. Defi­ance is pro­vid­ing water ser­vice to the plant, and there­fore it falls under the list of prop­er­ties that the city is tar­get­ing for …

Michael E. Balzer, 58 years, of Bryan, passed away Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at Parkview Regional Hospital, Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Also known as Dozer, he was born May 29, 1955 in Bryan, Ohio, the son of Ralph E. and JoAnne (Butt) Balzer.  He was a 1973 graduate of Bryan High School.  He married …