Ellen S. (Hendrickson) Baltosser, 79 years, of Tapiola, Michigan and formerly of West Unity, Ohio, passed away Monday, September 16, 2013 in Marquette, Michigan, after a short illness.  Ellen was born August 20, 1934 in Tapiola, Michigan, the daughter of the late William and Tekla (Miller) Hendrickson.  She attended the John A. …

Bryan Police report that on Wednes­day, 23 year old Christo­pher Kizer of Edger­ton was arrested for abuse of Harm­ful Intox­i­cants and Con­tribut­ing to the Delin­quency of a Minor. He was taken to CCNO. Also on Wednes­day, 20 year old Maxwell Sid­ney of Bryan was arrested for Abuse of Harm­ful Intox­i­cants …

A Mont­pe­lier man was arrested Tues­day in con­nec­tion with sex­ual abuse of young girls. 40 year old Daniel Bignell JR now faces 14 felony counts includ­ing four counts of gross sex­ual impo­si­tion, five counts of rape, two counts of attempted rape and three counts of kid­nap­ping. Accord­ing to a Wednes­day …

Peo­ple liv­ing within the Cen­tral Local School Dis­trict area will have to wait a year before learn­ing the fate of their school build­ing. The Bryan Times is report­ing that The Cen­tral Local Board of Edu­ca­tion has decided to put off until Sep­tem­ber of 2014 any vote on whether to build …

Some coun­ter­feit bills have been show­ing up in area banks and busi­nesses recently. Defi­ance Police have inves­ti­gated mul­ti­ple reports of coun­ter­feit $20 bills. Busi­nesses in Pauld­ing County were also alerted recently of cir­cu­lat­ing coun­ter­feit bills after sev­eral busi­ness, par­tic­u­larly gas sta­tions, reported them. Mid­west Com­mu­nity Fed­eral Credit Union has reported …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol says a Hicksville man was badly hurt in a two-vehicle col­li­sion Tues­day after­noon in Defi­ance County. It hap­pened around 3:30pm at Cicero and Arrow­smith roads in Mil­ford Town­ship. A 2012 Ford Mus­tang head­ing east on Arrow­smith Road ran a stop sign and col­lided with a …

A num­ber of indict­ments were handed down Tues­day by a Williams County Grand Jury. Among those indicted was a man who recently moved here. 22 year old Travis Hicks had been liv­ing in Texas, but in August moved into a home on County Road 17 belong­ing to his friend, 55 …

It’s not the Fourth of July, but there will be some fire­works tonight any­way in Bryan. The Bryan Times is report­ing that Bryan Mayor Doug John­son told the Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs on Tues­day that the city of Bryan will be test­ing small-shell fire­works in Bryan’s Recre­ation Park at …

There were two guest speak­ers at Tuesday’s Pio­neer Coun­cil meet­ing. Dawn Bald­win, direc­tor of emer­gency ser­vices for Williams County, and Rick Fair­banks, elec­tric super­vi­sor for the town spoke to coun­cil mem­bers. Fair­banks, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, is due to retire in Jan­u­ary, leav­ing the town with two line­man. Fair­banks …

A Williams County Grand Jury handed down 14 indict­ments yes­ter­day, includ­ing three secret indict­ments. Accord­ing to the court order, “The par­ties have not been arrested, and until they are, their cases are not to appear upon the appear­ance docket, nor upon the trial docket, nor oth­er­wise made pub­lic.“ As the …