LeRoy A. George, age 92, of Napoleon and formerly of Delta passed away Sunday June 23, 2014 at Northcrest Nursing Home in Napoleon following an extended illness. He worked for the former Panhandle Eastern Pipeline in Maintenance for 24 years prior to his retirement. Mr. George was born in Delta …

A single-vehicle crash Mon­day morn­ing claimed the life of a Pio­neer man. The Ohio State High­way Patrol reports that 20 year old Kaleb McLaugh­lin, a pas­sen­ger in a pickup truck dri­ven by 20 year old Mer­cedez Lloyd, also of Pio­neer was killed when the truck ran off County Road 16 …

The Williams County Board of Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties rec­om­mended a num­ber of items, includ­ing a rec­om­men­da­tion for higher pay for union mem­bers, dur­ing their reg­u­lar meet­ing Mon­day at the Enrich­ment Cen­ter. The Bryan Times reports that fol­low­ing an exec­u­tive ses­sion to dis­cuss a col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agree­ment, the board voted to rec­om­mend …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion says that effec­tive imme­di­ately and through July, TR 65, between CR 13 and CR 15 is closed for cul­vert replace­ment. Also, Begin­ning Mon­day July 8 through the end of July, U.S. 20A, between CR O and the Ohio Turn­pike will be closed for cul­vert replace­ment. …

The Wauseon Ele­men­tary School has a new prinic­pal. Theresa Viet­meier, for­merly a Wauseon Ele­men­tary School music teacher, was cho­sen Mon­day night by the Wauseon Exempted Vil­lage Board of Edu­ca­tion as the building’s new prin­ci­pal. Viet­meier begins her new job effec­tive Aug. 1, replac­ing David Burk­holder, who resigned. Viet­meier received her …

The North­west­ern Ohio Com­mu­nity Action Com­mis­sion will be accept­ing appli­ca­tions for the HEAP Sum­mer Cool­ing pro­gram start­ing July 1, and con­tin­u­ing through August 31. Assis­tance with a pay­ment of an elec­tric bill and/or dis­tri­b­u­tion of a free air con­di­tioner will be pro­vided. To qual­ify, a per­son must be within 175 …

Bryan police report a drug arrest in Bryan. Just after mid­night Mon­day morn­ing, police arrested 20 year old Andrew Shirkey of Atlanta, Geor­gia. Shirkey was cited for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana and paraphernalia.

The Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs has named BMU Elec­tric Super­in­ten­dent Brian Car­lin as the new Direc­tor of Util­i­ties. Car­lin replaces Steve Case­bere, who recently announced his retire­ment. Car­lin takes the job with more than 23 years of expe­ri­ence in the util­ity indus­try. He started in the cable indus­try and …

The name of the vic­tim of a fatal crash last week has been released. The State High­way Patrol said Sun­day that 27 year old Cody Dou­glass of Pio­neer died in a crash Wednes­day on U.S. 20 just east of the Indi­ana state line. Dou­glass was pro­nounced dead at the scene, …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol at Defi­ance reports a two-vehicle injury crash Sun­day morn­ing on U.S. 127 just north of West Unity. Police say a car dri­ven by 78 year old Mary Ran­dall of Fayette col­lided with another vehi­cle dri­ven by 76 year old Myr­tle Vanars­dalen of West Unity. Ran­dall …