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 …

A vehi­cle dam­aged one of the new gate­way pil­lars at Pon­tiac Park in Defi­ance Tues­day morn­ing when it rolled down the hill. Defi­ance Police say just after 3:30am, a vehi­cle owned by Kathy Miller of Web­ster St., which was parked at Cir­cle K, rolled down the incline of the park­ing …

Ronald H. Brenneman, age 82, died on Thursday, September 12, 2013, at 11:00 A.M. in his grandson’s home near Bryan, surrounded by his loving family and friends. He was a laborer with Brust Pipeline in Bryan, Ohio, for many years. Ronald was a veteran of the United States Army, serving …

Glenn Spencer Whitson, age 85, of Edon, Ohio, passed away in his residence at 1:46 p.m. on Monday, August 26, 2013. Mr. Whitson retired as an Inspector at Dana Corporation. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy having served at the end of World War II as a Navy …

Julie M. Peterson, age 86, of Edon, Ohio, died at 1:45 P.M. on Monday, September 16, 2013, at Park View Nursing Center in Edgerton, Ohio, where she was a patient. Mrs. Peterson was a graduate of Edgerton High School, was a longtime cook and waitress, and retired from Plas-Tech in …

Judith Ann Lorntz, age 72, of Bryan, Ohio passed away on Monday, September 16, 2013, at her home. Judy had retired from the Williams County Auditor’s Office as a Deputy Auditor. She was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church, was a 30 year member of Wesley United Methodist Church, …

Connie L. Caudill, 61, of Montpelier, passed away peacefully Saturday night at home, surrounded by her loving family.  She was born on June 23, 1952 in Bryan, Ohio to James R. and Shirley (Haskins) Bailey.  Connie graduated from Hazard High School in Hazard, Kentucky in 1970, then attended the University of Kentucky …

The vil­lage of Edon now has some­thing unique… an armored vehi­cle. That’s right, Edon now has an armored truck. The truck came at no cost from the gov­ern­ment, but accord­ing to the Bryan Times, it did come with some con­tro­versy. At Mon­day night’s meet­ing, Edon Vil­lage Coun­cil was informed that …

The Bryan City Board of Edu­ca­tion on Mon­day, voted to offi­cially accept the Ohio School Facil­i­ties Commission’s con­di­tional award of $18.88 mil­lion which will go toward a new grade 6–12 school and remod­eled mid­dle school for grades pre-K-5. Now, the vot­ers will decide on Novem­ber 5th whether or not to …

Some good news Mon­day for the North Cen­tral Board of Edu­ca­tion regard­ing dis­trict finances. The five-year fore­cast was pre­sented and shows rev­enues exceed­ing expen­di­tures for the com­ing four years, with deficit spend­ing fore­cast in the fifth year, but with a car­ry­over bal­ance. School offi­cials say it’s all because per­son­nel costs …