Charlotte V. Gillies Priem, age 95, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 9:07 A.M. on Saturday, August 1, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio after a brief illness. Mrs. Priem was a longtime resident of the Detroit area and worked in retail sales J.L. Hudson Department Store …

Nazaria T. Gomez, 81 years, of Stryker, Ohio departed her home on earth to her new home Far Beyond the Sun, on Saturday, August 1, 2015 in her residence peacefully, with her family at her side after a brief illness.  Nazaria was born July 28, 1934 in Beeville, Texas, the daughter …

Researchers at Ohio State Uni­ver­sity are look­ing for farm­ers in the Maumee River Val­ley to vol­un­teer for a study to help reduce nutri­ent runoff and increase crop yields. Farm­ers would allow for the col­lec­tion of water sam­ples from their land for two years to pro­vide data for the project. Farm­ers …

A fac­tory in Jonesville is get­ting a sec­ond lease on life. The for­mer Kid­die Brush & Toy fac­tory is being repur­posed for hous­ing, with 50 new apart­ments planned to be ready for occu­pancy this com­ing spring. Jonesville offi­cials say the project has been in the works for a long time …

The Pauld­ing High School gym­na­sium was packed on Sat­ur­day as the com­mu­nity came together to remem­ber one of their own. 26-year-old Petty Offi­cer Sec­ond Class Ran­dall Smith was one of the five ser­vice mem­bers who died fol­low­ing the July 16 shoot­ing at a mil­i­tary recruit­ing cen­ter in Chat­tanooga, Ten­nessee. Reports …

Fifty-three wind­mills are in need of restora­tion at Mid-America Wind­mill Museum in Kendal­lville. Over half need sig­nif­i­cant repairs, and a restora­tion expert has told the museum that fail­ure to fix the machines will mean only another five years or so of oper­a­tion. After that, those wind­mills will be beyond repair. …

An Angola man accused of stab­bing his mother and sis­ter back in Jan­u­ary changed his plea in Steuben Supe­rior Court on Fri­day. 49-year-old Jef­frey Allen Pep­pler offered to plead guilty to killing his sis­ter if pros­e­cu­tors would drop the charge of attempted mur­der of his mother. Judge William Fee will …

In Henry County, a body found in the rub­ble of a burned out house on Wednes­day after­noon has been iden­ti­fied as that of 52 year old Yvonne Nel­son of Espanola, Ontario. The dis­cov­ery was made in the house at L-688 Henry County Road 17D, just south of Okolona, when fire­fight­ers …

If you live in Bryan, you can rest easy, and you should feel pretty safe. That’s because, accord­ing to an online report, Bryan is the safest city in the entire state of Ohio. The Bryan Times reports that Safe­Wise, a home secu­rity sys­tems com­pany based in Utah, says Bryan had …

The Williams County Sher­iffs Dept is ask­ing any­one with infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the recent road sign thefts and mul­ti­ple mail box dam­ag­ing in Williams County to con­tact either the Sheriff’s office at 419 636‑3151 or the Williams County Crimestop­pers at 419 485‑9302. Any­one with infor­ma­tion lead­ing to arrests,charges,or indict­ments will receive …