The Auburn Board of Pub­lic Works and Safety voted on Thurs­day to sus­pend two Auburn Police Offi­cers after more than $2,000 in cash was stolen from the police department’s evi­dence room. Offi­cer Steve Ryan was sus­pended for 35 days, and offi­cer Steve Val­lance got a 30 day sus­pen­sion. Now, the …

The Williams County Sheriff’s depart­ment reminds dri­vers that the nation­wide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” cam­paign is in full effect, and it is being enforced locally too. The height­ened enforce­ment period began on August 21st and it runs through Mon­day, August 31st. Grant money from the Depart­ment of Pub­lic …

Fron­tier Com­mu­ni­ca­tions hosted a cel­e­bra­tion on Thurs­day night to honor Fre­mont and Angola for becom­ing quarter-finalists in the America’s Best Com­mu­ni­ties com­pe­ti­tion, a $10 mil­lion com­pe­ti­tion designed to revi­tal­ize small towns and rural com­mu­ni­toes. Angola and Fre­mont won $50,000 for get­ting through the first round, and will learn in Jan­u­ary …

A vehi­cle fire at Green Acres Trailer Court on Ohio 66, destroyed a Jeep and dam­aged a mobile home. It hap­pened Wednes­day morn­ing around 11, and the flames were quickly put out by Defi­ance fire­fight­ers. A woman and child liv­ing in the mobile home were checked out by Defi­ance EMS, …

Bryan Police on Thurs­day evening, arrested 24 year old Kristin Way of Hills­dale, Michi­gan on a charge of Com­plic­ity to Com­mit Theft… or Shoplift­ing. She was taken toCCNO. Police did not release the loca­tion of that arrest or any other details. Also last evening, 25 year old Adam Reese, also …

William E. Mavis, 75 years, of Alvordton, passed away Tuesday, August 25, 2015, in his residence. William was born on September 27, 1939, to the late Robert A.J. and Irene Marie (Stahl) Mavis in Farmer, Ohio. He was a 1957 graduate of Farmer High School. William married Shirley L. Armbruster …

Margaret Ann (Wiles) Hinzman, age 78, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, near Defiance. Margaret was a Registered Nurse and retired from Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona after 25 years of service. She loved living in Phoenix, but in …

An unusual vis­i­tor showed up on Wednes­day in Bryan. The Green Rush Bus Tour, spon­sored by Respon­si­ble Ohio was in town yes­ter­day. The group is pro-marijuana, and they are behind a pro­posed state con­sti­tu­tional amend­ment ques­tion which will appear on the Novem­ber bal­lot. If passed, “Issue-3″ as it will appear …

On Tues­day night, at the reg­u­lar meet­ing of Defi­ance City Coun­cil, coun­cilmem­bers learned about an inno­v­a­tive traf­fic con­trol device that is being pro­posed for one Defi­ance inter­sec­tion. A round­about was pro­posed by a con­sult­ing firm. Now, the mayor plans to ask coun­cil to approve an appli­ca­tion for an Ohio Depart­ment …

Today, at the ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal in Defi­ance, there will be an infor­ma­tional meet­ing on the pro­posed ET Rover and NEXUS gas pipelines, which if built, would carry “fracked” nat­ural gas from the East Coast of the United States through Ohio and Michi­gan to a sta­tion in Ontario, Canada. …