Charles Victor “Vic” Malherbe, Sr., age 84, of Bryan, passed from this world early Wednesday, August 28, 2013, with family at his beside, while in rehabilitation at Genesis Healthcare in Bryan. Vic was a mechanical engineer and owned his own real estate agency, “Flying M Realtors”, in Arizona for many …

Robert “Bob” H. Brandt, 71, of Montpelier passed away early Thursday morning at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Ft. Wayne, following a brief illness.  He was born on November 9, 1941 in Bryan to Robert S. and Josephine (Pignataro) Brandt.  Bob graduated from Montpelier High School in 1959.  On August 21, 1965 he …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Bay­town, Texas man in con­nec­tion with a string of bur­glar­ies in Pulaski [pull-a SKY] Town­ship. 22 year old Travis L. Hicks hasn’t been liv­ing in the area all that long, accord­ing to Steve Towns. The sher­iff told the Bryan Times …

It could be a long cold win­ter for the Huber Opera House and Civic Cen­ter. The hot water boiler there is at least forty years old accord­ing to direc­tors, and it’s just plain shot. They say it’s got a huge crack in it and it leaks water faster than it …

The Amer­i­can Heart Asso­ci­a­tion (AHA) is spon­sor­ing the North­west Ohio Heart Walk on Sat­ur­day in Napoleon. More than 150 peo­ple will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the event which starts with reg­is­tra­tion at 8 a.m. tomor­row morn­ing in Napoleon. The walk will begin at 9 a.m. and refresh­ments will be offered along …

Stu­dents and staff at St. Anthony’s School in Colum­bus Grove were evac­u­ated Wednes­day after­noon after a gas leak was dis­cov­ered nearby. The Put­nam County Sheriff’s Office says stu­dents and staff were evac­u­ated by bus to Colum­bus Grove Local Schools around 12:30 as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure while the leak was repaired. …

Marie C. Best, age 94, of Edon, Ohio, went to be with her Lord at 6:57 A.M on Tuesday, September 3, 2013, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, knowing that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. To her family she …

Lester E. Warncke, age 81, of rural Wauseon, passed away Tuesday afternoon, September 3, 2013 at Swanton Health Care. Prior to his retirement in 1993 he had worked as a truck driver and salesman for the Zehr Company for two years and then went on to work for Sterling Milk …

Charles Dee Cottrell, 74 years, of Stryker, passed away Monday, September 2, 2013 at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne.  Charles was born March 21, 1939 in Rosedale, Indiana, the son of the late Devaudria Jefferson and Mary Laverne (Spencer) Cottrell.  He was a 1957 graduate of Rosedale High School, Rosedale, Indiana …

Steven Towns, Sher­iff of Williams County, says again and again the Williams County Sheriff’s Office receives calls report­ing that some­one has either been a vic­tim of, or has been tar­geted by, scam­mers. The Sher­iff says scams come in all forms and use many dif­fer­ent meth­ods to con­tact you. If you …