On Fri­day, Cooper Farms held an open house at its new Sandy Ridge Gilt Farm in Cecil. The 179-acre farm will house approx­i­mately 1,600 young female pigs begin­ning in Decem­ber, where they will remain for about 16–17 weeks, or until they reach about 200 pounds. They will then be moved …

Bryan Police say that on Fri­day evening, at 9:50 PM, 32 year old Joshua James Wolf, who is described as being home­less, was arrested on a Felony War­rant out of Hills­dale Michi­gan. The orig­i­nal charge was Man­u­fac­tur­ing methamphetamine/Ecstasy and Oper­at­ing a Lab­o­ra­tory involv­ing Metham­phet­a­mine and Pos­ses­sion of Metham­phet­a­mine. Wolf was …

Accord­ing to a news release from The Williams County Pros­e­cu­tors Office, County Pros­e­cu­tor Kather­ine Zart­man has received con­fir­ma­tion that Sher­iff Steve Towns has been cleared of any pos­si­ble charges in con­nec­tion with the Bryan School Board inves­ti­ga­tions. Ohio BCI, in con­junc­tion with the Ohio Attor­ney General’s Spe­cial Pros­e­cu­tions Sec­tion, con­cluded …

Mary L. Zaleski, age 71, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 4:53 A.M. on Friday, October 23, 2015, at Community Health & Wellness Center- Bryan, where she had been a patient. Mrs. Zaleski was a homemaker and loved spending time with her family. She also enjoyed fishing and playing the …

Lettie Mae Lilly, 85 years, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, passed away Thursday, October 22, 2015 at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Lettie was born November 16, 1929 in Toledo, Ohio to the late Negly and Gladys Mae (Williams) Rhone.  She was a 1948 graduate of Mark Center High …

Kenneth E. Dooley, age 88, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away peacefully with his family at his side on Wednesday, October 21, 2015, at Hillside Country Living. He owned Dooley Electric for over 30 years where he serviced electric motors. Mr. Dooley also taught Industrial Maintenance at 4-County Vocational School and …

A recent audit of the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio will result in no find­ings and no rec­om­men­da­tions. That news came dur­ing Wednesday’s meet­ing of the CCNO finan­cial overview com­mit­tee. CCNO Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Jim Den­nis said an inde­pen­dent CPA firm out of Toledo just com­pletedCCNO’s fis­cal audit as required by …

In an effort to bring aware­ness to breast can­cer, Defi­ance High School art stu­dents of Melanie Wil­son and Mandy Keck have banded together to pro­duce “Hope” tiles which will be sold this evening at the high school foot­ball game at Fred J. Brown Sta­dium. The tiles will be sold by …

The Williams County Ele­men­tary Quiz Bowl for grades 5 & 6 was held last night at Hill­top School. The fol­low­ing schools par­tic­i­pated: Bryan Edger­ton Edon Hill­top Mont­pe­lier North Cen­tral Stryker St. Mary St. Patrick Stryker was run­ner –up and Hill­top took home the win­ning trophy.

Ralph L. Krill, age 91, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 4:25 A.M. on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at Vancrest of Antwerp Assisted Living, where he was a resident. Mr. Krill was a 1942 graduate of Edgerton High School and served in the United States Army during World War II. He …