Richard Cletus Held, age 88, of Edon, Ohio, passed away peacefully of cancer on July 8, 2013, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center, in Bryan, Ohio, surrounded by his family. Richard was a lifetime farmer and a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan. He retired in 1987 from Edon Machine Company after 27 years. …

Phillip Lee Malone, II, 38, of Montpelier, passed away on Saturday at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio.  He was born on March 7, 1975 in Montpelier. Phillip graduated from Montpelier High School in 1994.  Shortly after graduation Phillip joined the United States Navy and honorably served his country  for four …

Stryker Vil­lage Coun­cil met on Mon­day night and dur­ing that meet­ing, a lot of time was spent dis­cussing how to con­trol stray cats. After the issue of the dis­posal of trapped stray cats by the police depart­ment last month, The Bryan Times reports that coun­cil dis­cussed the need for an …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers met Mon­day and approved the hir­ing of two new full-time employ­ees as assis­tant cus­to­di­ans for the county cour­t­house and office build­ings. The new hires offi­cially start on July 15. The Bryan Times also reports that Com­mis­sion­ers met in exec­u­tive ses­sion to dis­cuss details per­tain­ing to cour­t­house secu­rity. …

Defi­ance County Com­mis­sion­ers on Mon­day approved three grant agree­ments with the Ohio Pub­lic Works Com­mis­sion for next year. Work will take place on Ban­ner School Road, Hire Road, and The Bend Road. Com­mis­sion­ers yes­ter­day also approved a state-funded Mov­ing Ohio For­ward demo­li­tion project for a house on Inde­pen­dence Road with …

Ohio law enforce­ment author­i­ties said on Mon­day the inmate who briefly escaped a state prison last week before he was tack­led and tied up with rope at a small gen­eral store used lad­ders to get out of three fenced areas. A spokesper­son for the Ohio State High­way Patrol said James …

Two men and a woman were injured Sun­day evening in a motor­cy­cle crash 30 year old Adam Cousino of Grand Rapids, was taken by air ambu­lance to St. Vin­cent Mercy Med­ical Cen­ter, Toledo, and 36 year old Eric Sta­ton of Toledo, was taken by air ambu­lance to Toledo Hos­pi­tal. Staton’s …

Bryan Police report the arrest of a Stryker man for under­age drink­ing. 18 year old Tim­o­thy Pow­ell was picked up in Bryan on Thurs­day, July 5th. He was later released. Also on Thurs­day, 25 year old Edward Smith III of Bryan was arrested for dis­or­derly con­duct after warn­ing and men­ac­ing. …

Recent Fayette High School grad­u­ate, 18 year old Noelle Good­son, entered the Stand and Be Heard Anthem Singing Con­test in May, in which each of the con­tes­tants sings the national anthem. Now, The Bryan Times reports that to move for­ward in the com­pe­ti­tion, Noelle must be in the top 20 …

Michi­gan Author­i­ties have recov­ered the body of a 36-year-old man who dis­ap­peared after jump­ing into the water last Wednes­day to save an 8-year old boy. Searchers found the body Sat­ur­day after­noon around 2:30pm. A woman called 911 Wednes­day evening, say­ing her boyfriend and son were in the water off the …