Work on the $1.5 mil­lion cour­t­house roof recon­struc­tion project could begin later this year, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, which reports that a ten­ta­tive bid sched­ule was laid out and agreed to Mon­day by county com­mis­sion­ers. Com­mis­sion­ers ten­ta­tively agreed to adver­tise for con­trac­tor bids later this month, and set Oct. …

A Fre­mont man sur­ren­dered peace­fully Sun­day after the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office and Fre­mont Police responded to a call regard­ing bat­tery with bod­ily injury. Jacob Spradlin was found him at a Fre­mont home. Police formed a perime­ter around the res­i­dence and finally got Spradlin to come out, where he sur­ren­dered. …

An Angola teen escaped with only minor injuries Sat­ur­day morn­ing when his pickup truck rolled over in Branch County. 17-year-old Alex Beek­man was dri­ving on Flint Road just before 11 Sat­ur­day morn­ing, when his pickup went out of con­trol, ran off the road and rolled over into a ditch. Deputies …

Judith L. Fenner, age 63, of Pettisville passed away Wednesday August 25, 2015 at the Defiance Area Inpatient Care Center. She was a lifelong area Homemaker who also did in-home babysitting. Mrs. Fenner was born in Detroit, Michigan on February 15, 1951 the daughter of Allan and Betty (Filmore) Thomson. …

A New Haven woman and her child were injured Sat­ur­day after­noon in an acci­dent on I-69 about a mile south of Auburn. That crash hap­pened at about 2:35pm Sat­ur­day, when 36-year-old Tara Shramek says she looked down to change the radio sta­tion, and when she looked up again, she saw …

A crash Sat­ur­day after­noon leaves one man dead and a woman in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. The Ohio High­way Patrol says 32 year old Amy Bibler of Find­lay, was west­bound on U.S. 6 at about 5:40 p.m on Sat­ur­day, with a pas­sen­ger, 35 year old Richard Eagle­son III of Desh­ler, when her …

Bryan Police on Sun­day made an arrest on a bench war­rant. Police picked up 36 year old Stephanie R. Spauld­ing of Stryker, who then posted bond and was released.

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 …