Charles M. Knight, age 77, died at 2:57 P.M. on Friday, June 28, 2013, at Vibra Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana where he was a patient after an illness of three weeks. Mr. Knight was a 1953 graduate of Edon High School and worked as a farmer and also a …

Betty Jean Florence, age 86, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 3:10 P.M. on Saturday, June 29, 2013, at her residence. Mrs. Florence had been a Secretary for a Real Estate company in Chicago, for the East Lansing (Michigan) Schools and at Defiance Screw Machine Products. She also volunteered at the …

A cou­ple of arrests by the Bryan Police depart­ment to report on today… On Mon­day, Bryan Police picked up 33 year old Scott Stuller of Bryan on a bench war­rant issued out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ure to appear. He was taken to court, then released. Also on Mon­day, …

The vil­lage of Ney, 6 miles south of Bryan, got hit by the effects of what may have been a fun­nel cloud over the week­end. The National Weather Ser­vice says the dam­age came from straight-line winds, but they are inves­ti­gat­ing the pos­si­bil­ity that a small tor­nado may have been sighted. …

The Bryan Kiwa­nis Club is look­ing for­ward to its 46th annual Fourth of July Fly-In Break­fast at the Williams County Air­port. It’s being held Thurs­day, July 4th with serv­ing from 7am until 11am. On the menu… cof­fee, juice, pan­cakes, ham and scram­bled eggs. The Kiwa­nis Club’s pop­corn trailer will be …

The Inde­pen­dence Day hol­i­day is day after tomor­row and many area busi­nesses and ser­vices are adjust­ing their hours. City, county, state and fed­eral offices all will be closed Thurs­day. How­ever, Bryan’s reg­u­lar trash pickup will be done as sched­uled. The Bryan Post office win­dow will be closed and there will …

The Arch­bold vil­lage coun­cil on Mon­day accepted the res­ig­na­tion of one vil­lage worker and began a search for his replace­ment. Jamie Rodriquez ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion after serv­ing for almost 20 years as an Arch­bold Police Offi­cer. Rodriguez told coun­cil that health prob­lems no longer allowed him to ful­fill his duties. …

Fire and water were dis­cussed at the Hicksville Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing Mon­day. Coun­cil mem­bers got an update on the vil­lage flood­ing sit­u­a­tion. Coun­cil dis­cussed a June 28 let­ter from the Ohio EPA fol­low­ing a com­pli­ance inspec­tion of the village’s waste water treat­ment plant. The EPA let­ter sug­gests Hicksville is still …

Alta M. Bordner, 95  passed away Thursday June 27, 2013 at her son’s home in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was born December 22, 1917 in Montpelier to Harley J. and Rosa R. (Buda) Hart. Alta had lived the past four and half years in Knoxville. Alta graduated from Pioneer High School in …

Eujeania (Jean) Johnson, age 75, joined her husband (Bob) in heaven on Wednesday June 26, 2013 in her home surrounded by her “girls” she suffered from a long-term illness. Prior to retirement she served the community as a school crossing guard for 20 years. She stood on the corner of …