Santa’s on his way, and the Christ­mas Parade will get things started again this year. The lineup is in the Parkview Physi­cians Group park­ing lot on W. High Street begin­ning 6 p.m. tonight. After the parade, a pho­tog­ra­pher will be in Santa’s house next to the cour­t­house, tak­ing pho­tos with …

The old­est build­ing in Pio­neer, the Joy Hotel, has been saved from the wreck­ing ball. Michael Wor­thing­ton has bought the build­ing with dona­tions from res­i­dents in Williams County. Now Wor­thing­ton will shore up the build­ing built in 1855 and try to ren­o­vate so it can be used as a viable …

Still no word on what caused a fire in a wooden shed on County Road I. The blaze on Tues­day hap­pened just after mid­night and the 10 by 30 out­build­ing was engulfed. The cause of the fire remains unde­ter­mined but does not appear to be sus­pi­cious, he said. A dam­age …

Deborah Paula Martin, 64 years, of Fort Wayne, Indiana passed away Sunday, November 22, 2015 in her residence. She was born on January 21, 1951 in Bryan, Ohio to the late Paul W. and Irene (Gerencser) Nyari. Deborah was a 1970 graduate of Snider High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana. She …

Fol­low­ing Thanks­giv­ing, the next big day of obser­va­tion is… #Giv­ingTues­day. It’s a global day of giv­ing that encour­ages gen­eros­ity and philanthropy. Non-profit Sauder Vil­lage is encour­ag­ing peo­ple to par­tic­i­pate, and they have oppor­tu­ni­ties on their web­site to do that.

It’s bud­get time for many orga­ni­za­tions, and the Fort Defi­ance Humane Soci­ety is ask­ing county com­mis­sion­ers to pro­vide another $10k for 2016 to deal with a feral cat problem. Com­mis­sion­ers say they’ll con­sider the request.

A for­mer Gen­eral Motors team leader has taken up a free bicy­cle pro­gram, after his brother-in-law started the pro­gram. Larry Sparks repairs bikes and gives them away to needy fam­i­lies. Sparks gets many requests every day. He said he has about 100 bikes on hand now, and said he’s received …

Three peo­ple were arrested on drug charges after they were pulled over in a traf­fic stop for fail­ing to sig­nal a turn. The arrests hap­pened on North Cherry Street about 2 a.m. Sun­day. The OSP trooper said one pas­sen­ger had drug para­pher­na­lia, which led to a search. Drugs were found …

An arrest has been made for the bomb threat at Bryan Mid­dle School last Thurs­day that forced the school to be evacuated. The 12-year-old female stu­dent turned her­self in. Bryan Police Chief Michael Willis said the Williams County Juve­nile Pro­ba­tion Depart­ment will get the report. The pros­e­cu­tor will ulti­mately decide …

A Fre­mont man was sen­tenced to six years of a ten year prison term for deal­ing metham­phet­a­mine in Steuben Cir­cuit Court. 24-year-old Niko­lus Nevois pled guilty on Sep­tem­ber 28th to a pair of Class B felony charges. Nevois was arrested last March fol­low­ing an IMAGE Drug Task Force investigation.