This week’s Bryan City Band con­cert is being held in honor of the late John Hartman’s 100th birth­day. Hart­man directed the band from 1962 until he retired in 2009. Hart­man died last Novem­ber 8th. Band offi­cials say the con­cert will begin at 8 p.m. Wednes­day on the square. In the …

Mid­west Com­mu­nity Fed­eral Credit Union says four new accounts have been opened with fraud­u­lent checks. All of the newly opened accounts were opened with new Ohio non dri­ver IDs and fraud­u­lent pay­roll checks from known local busi­nesses. The checks were drawn off of Chase and Bank of Amer­ica and were …

Charlotte Crossett Staples Cox, 97, died peacefully on Sunday, June 9, 2013, at The Inn at Fountain Park in Bryan where she had been a resident in the memory unit since July 2011. Descended from New Englanders, Charlotte was born on November 3, 1915, in West Trenton, New Jersey, to …

Clarence Samuel “Sam” Koch, age 85, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 8:15 P.M. on Monday, June 10, 2013, at Fountain Park Inn and Villas in Bryan, where he was a resident. Mr. Koch was a 1945 graduate of Farmer High School and was employed as a truck driver and station …

Jill Kay Gallant, 52 years, of Bryan, passed away Saturday, June 8, 2013 at the University of Toledo Medical Center after a 3 year battle with cancer.  Jill was born January 22, 1961 in Montpelier, the daughter of Clinton “Clint” and Wanda H. (Lloyd) Fitzenrider.  She was a 1979 graduate of North …

Arthur “Art” E. VanCoppenolle, 45, of Montpelier died Saturday evening at his home.  He was born on October 26, 1967 in Montpelier to Thomas A. and Kathleen (Robarge) VanCoppenolle.  Art graduated from Montpelier High School in 1986. Art worked at a meat processing plant in Napoleon, Ohio. Art is survived by his …

Sev­eral arrests were made over the past few days by Bryan Police. On Thurs­day, Bryan Police arrested 33 year old Michael Kennedy of North Allen Street in Bryan on a bench war­rant out of Defi­ance County for fail­ure to appear. He was taken to CCNO. Then on Fri­day, Bryan Police …

A lot of meet­ings are sched­uled for today. Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage Coun­cil will meet in reg­u­lar ses­sion at 7:30 p.m. today in the police depart­ment meet­ing room. The Williams Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Williams County Agri­cul­ture Ser­vices Meet­ing Room in Bryan. The …

All res­i­dents from Lake­land Nurs­ing and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter in Angola had to be evac­u­ated due to an attic fire. The elec­tri­cal fire that started at about 10:20 p.m. Fri­day night was in the orig­i­nal wing of the facil­ity, above the office area. It’s hoped that all res­i­dents will be back …

Excit­ing things are hap­pen­ing at Inde­pen­dence Dam State Park east of Defi­ance this sum­mer. Ren­o­va­tion of the marina park­ing lot and plan­ning of new activ­i­ties for vis­i­tors are in progress, and park offi­cials are get­ting camp­ing sites started up again, bring­ing bald eagles to the park from a reha­bil­i­ta­tion facil­ity …