Offi­cials with the Fort Defi­ance Humane Soci­ety are hop­ing that low-cost spay and neuter pro­grams will lead to fewer cats run­ning free in the county. They say that although they have an almost 100-percent suc­cess rate when it comes to adopt­ing dogs, at least 60 per­cent of the cats that …

Pauld­ing County com­mis­sion­ers met recently and learned of some eco­nomic devel­op­ment issues. The Com­mis­sion­ers met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Regional Growth Part­ner­ship Jobs Ohio and Pauld­ing County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment, and learned that sev­eral area col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties are in the process of form­ing a con­sor­tium to dis­cuss and plan edu­ca­tional pro­grams …

The com­mis­sion­ers from Williams, Defi­ance, Henry and Ful­ton coun­ties are now con­sid­er­ing sell­ing the Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter build­ing in Stryker to Quadco. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the deci­sion to take a look at sell­ing the prop­erty comes fol­low­ing recent rule changes from the US Cen­ters for Medicare and Med­ic­aid, …

A Steuben County man was sen­tenced on Mon­day to 15 years in prison on a felony rape charge. Orig­i­nally, 54 year old Frank Stetler of the Angola area, had been charged with four felony counts in con­nec­tion with a sex­ual assault that hap­pened last New Years Eve. Stetler was handed …

Lelah J. Davis, age 60, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 5:35 A.M. on Sunday, October 4, 2015, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center, where she was a patient, surrounded by her loved ones. She had worked for five years as a dietary aide at Defiance Hospital and then worked for nearly …

Clarice Lucille Bulla (99) of Montpelier, Ohio passed away Saturday October 3, 2015 at her home surrounded by family. She was born to Ada (Albert) Weber and William M. Weber on April 14, 1916 in Plymouth, Indiana. She was united in marriage to Lawrence E. Bulla on November 24, 1938 …

Samuel L. Sierra, 28 years, of West Unity, passed away Thursday, October 1, 2015 as the result of an automobile accident near West Unity.  Samuel was born September 21, 1987 in Harlingen, Texas.  He was a 2006 graduate of North Central High School where he participated in Track, Cross Country, …

Metropolis, IL., Helen M. Bates, age 94, of Metropolis, IL. And formerly of Wauseon passed away September 30, 2015 at Twin Oaks Assisted Living in Metropolis, IL. Mrs. Bates was born in Wauseon on December 2, 1920 the daughter of the late Homer and Edna (Snyder) Wagner. She married Lloyd …

Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties is cel­e­brat­ing Pub­lic Power Week, now through this Sat­ur­day, along with more than 2,000 other community-owned elec­tric util­i­ties across the U.S. that pro­vide elec­tric­ity on a not-for-profit basis. Pub­lic Power Week is an annual event that rec­og­nizes the ben­e­fits of local, community-owned elec­tric util­i­ties. Locally, to cel­e­brate …

The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio is hang­ing on, by a thread. On Fri­day, the exec­u­tive board of CCNO accepted an 80-percent par­tial pay­ment of Toledo’s $1.3 mil­lion fourth quar­ter oper­at­ing debt, that will go toward sup­port­ing oper­a­tions of the jail through mid-December. The future of the rest of the …