There’s now a CrimeStop­pers reward of $500 for the man who burst into Rings Phar­macy on Novem­ber 3rd and stole drugs right off the shelves. Mont­pe­lier Police Chief Dan McGee says the man is an addict and has addict friends. He says the man moved fast, shov­ing drugs into a …

And look­ing ahead to Christ­mas, and it’s just around the cor­ner, Grace Com­mu­nity Church is orga­niz­ing their Christ­mas food box give­away. They’re help­ing out folks who’ve had it hard this year. They’ll take appli­ca­tions at the church office in Bryan. And if you’re able to donate, call Grace Com­mu­nity Church …

There’ll be a free food give­away for those who need it tomor­row at the Wes­ley United Methodist Church, that’s at 903 Cen­ter Street in Bryan. The free food dis­tri­b­u­tion begins at noon and is sched­uled to end at 4 p.m.

Police are also look­ing into a rob­bery at 4 a.m. Sat­ur­day at the Speed­way on North Clin­ton St. in Defi­ance. The same MO was used in that rob­bery. The rob­ber got away with an undis­closed amount of cash.

An arrest has been made in con­nec­tion with an armed rob­bery last week in Pauld­ing. 26-year-old John Gos­nell is now charged with armed rob­bery of the Mara­mont gas sta­tion on North Williams Street Sat­ur­day. The rob­ber was described as a white male in his 20s who had a hand­gun. He …

Williams County Sher­iffs deputies inves­ti­gated a week­end acci­dent. 31-year-old Con­rad Siebe­naler of Pio­neer was west­bound on US 20 just east of County Road 18 when he trav­eled off the right side of the road. His Chrysler hit a ditch and a mail­box. Siebe­naler was arrested and charged with oper­at­ing a …

A reminder to dri­vers. Last week mul­ti­ple deer strikes were reported just at sun­set, when deer are set­ting out to look for food. With the time change, it’s a good idea to watch out for them while still get­ting used to an ear­lier sunset.

A crash Sat­ur­day morn­ing took the life of a Napoleon woman. Sarah Lead­ers was dri­ving four oth­ers when she went off the left side of County Road X and rolled over. Sev­eral pas­sen­gers were ejected. Lead­ers was pro­nounced dead at the scene. The other four were taken to area hospitals.

The Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers will con­sider a request to annex about 10 acres of land from Pulaski Town­ship to the city of Bryan. They’ve set the meet­ing for Jan­u­ary 7th at 11 a.m. Local attor­ney Ryan Thomp­son has filed a rezon­ing request on behalf of two prop­erty own­ers on County …

The Williams County Health Depart­ment is mak­ing plans now to assess county resident’s health. In part­ner­ship with county med­ical, edu­ca­tional, reli­gious and well­ness groups, they’ll gather details to deter­mine the health needs of the area. Begin­ning in Jan­u­ary, Williams County adult res­i­dents will receive a health-related ques­tion­naire in the mail. …