James “Jim” Corwin Burkholder passed away in the late morning hours of Tuesday October 6th, after a lengthy illness. Jim is survived by his loving wife of 29 years, Jayne (Beckman) Burkholder, sons Jeff and Dave (Mary) Gill; sisters Joan (Jim) Nofzinger, Corinne (Jim) Wright, Jane (Toad, deceased) Milliman and …

A trooper from the Van Wert post of the Ohio State High­way Patrol was one of three peo­ple injured when a vehi­cle slammed into his marked patrol car as he was assist­ing a stranded motorist Mon­day morn­ing. Trooper Jared Miller was taken to Pauld­ing County Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment of non-life …

Ongo­ing ten­sions between the Defi­ance County Fair Foun­da­tion and the county’s fair board sur­faced at the county com­mis­sion­ers’ meet­ing ear­lier this week. The Cres­cent News reports that on Mon­day, sev­eral mem­bers of each organization’s board were on hand for the com­mis­sion­ers’ reg­u­lar ses­sion. Some dif­fer­ences between the fair foun­da­tion — …

A teenage boy was flown out by the Samar­i­tan Heli­copter on Tues­day after­noon after ini­tial reports indi­cate a tree fell on him. Accord­ing to the lim­ited infor­ma­tion that we have avail­able at this time, res­cue crews were called out at about 4:40pm yes­ter­day. Fre­mont fire­fight­ers, Fre­mont Police, Steuben County E.M.S. …

While toxic algae is caus­ing some con­cerns in Ohio and sur­round­ing states, The Bryan Times reports that Williams County has not detected any algae blooms so far. Mean­while, the Asso­ci­ated Press is report­ing today that a toxic algae out­break, which was detected two months ago, spread more than 600 miles …

Thelma S. Fry passed away on Sunday October 18, 2015 at Anna’s House at Hillside Country Living in Bryan. She was born April 9, 1934 to Henry and Nora (Short) Stamm in Archbold, OH.  She was the salutatorian of the 1952 West Unity High School graduating class.  After graduation, she worked at …

Wendy D. Stapleton, 49, of Bryan passed away unexpectedly on Sunday October 18, 2015. She was born on November 24, 1965 in Augusta, Georgia to Marshall J. and Lawana M. (McGraw) Stapleton. She graduated from Montpelier High School. Wendy worked for the Williams County EMS for 20 years. She also …

Are tax­pay­ers in Henry County ready to go out of pocket for a new senior cen­ter facil­ity? A 1.1 mil, five year levy would bring in just over 800 tho­suand dol­lars, that money to be used as part of what’s needed to con­vert the site of the CD Brill­hart Elemt­nary …

Four peo­ple have two Angola police offi­cers to thank for get­ting them out of a house fire Sun­day morn­ing. It was reported just before 4am at 210 West Broad. It was at a duplex where some occu­pants in the side where the fire started were already out of the res­i­dence …

Folks in Williams County are being told to not burn any­thing out­side today due to an increased risk for those fires to get otu of con­trol. The National Weather Ser­vice says between warm tem­per­a­tures, low humid­ity and strong winds, all the ingre­di­ents are there for flames to spread quickly.