The Bryan Times today, is report­ing that long­time Bryan Fire Chief Merit Wal­lace Smith of Bryan, died Thurs­day at Bryan Care and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion. He led the depart­ment from 1964 until his retire­ment in 1979 and was a fire­fighter for 36 years, begin­ning that long career with the Fayette Fire Depart­ment …

Francis E. Schindler, age 79, of rural Ney, Ohio, passed away at 10:20 A.M. on Wednesday, July 22, 2015, in his home after an extended illness. A 1952 graduate of Ney High School, he was a farmer and retired from General Motors in Defiance, Ohio, with thirty years of service. …

Thomas E. March, age 80, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 10:59 A.M. on Tuesday, July 22, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice Center near Defiance, Ohio. Tom was a welder for 57 years, an avid bow hunter and bowler. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving …

Williams County now has a new pros­e­cu­tor. Ear­lier this week, the Williams County Repub­li­can Party Cen­tral Com­mit­tee voted unan­i­mously to put 32 year old Kather­ine Zart­man in the posi­tion on a full-time basis. Zart­man has served as county assis­tant pros­e­cu­tor since 2008, and has served as interim pros­e­cu­tor since the …

In Syl­va­nia, the “Slave Trail Free­dom Walk” is set to be held on Aug. 14 begin­ning at 6PM, begin­ning at the Lath­rop House on Main Street, and con­clud­ing on the cam­pus of Flower Hos­pi­tal. The pur­pose of the walk is to edu­cate peo­ple to what orga­niz­ers say is the fact …

Charles William Case, 92 years, of Sherwood, passed away Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at The Inns and Villas at Fountain Park, Bryan with his family at his side.  Charles was born August 17, 1922 in Wauseon, Ohio, the son of the late Pierre and Clara (Knierim) Case. Charles was baptized into …

Timothy E. Disbro, age 59, of Edon, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at Mercy Hospital, in Defiance, Ohio, after an extended illness. He had been a resident of Brookview Health Care Center in Defiance for several years. A 1974 graduate of Edon (Ohio) High School, Tim grew …

Clas­sic vehi­cles will be gath­er­ing at the Stryker school park­ing lot at the end of the month for an annual sum­mer cruise-in for the com­mu­nity. This will be the third year that Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter has hosted the show in down­town Stryker. The cruise-in is sched­uled for Fri­day, July 31, …

At it’s meet­ing this week, the Pauld­ing Exempted Vil­lage Board of Edu­ca­tion hon­ored Navy Petty Offi­cer 2nd Class Ran­dall Smith, a 2007 Pauld­ing grad­u­ate, who was killed in the shoot­ings in Chat­tanooga, Ten­nessee last Thurs­day, with a moment of silence and a pre­pared state­ment. School board pres­i­dent Jim Foltz led …

A Williams County grand jury met Wednes­day and returned indict­ments against nine peo­ple, includ­ing a Michi­gan man who is now fac­ing charges of aggra­vated vehic­u­lar assault, and OVI endan­ger­ing chil­dren. 37 year old Fiden­cio Monroy-Villeda is alleged to have caused seri­ous phys­i­cal harm to a woman when he crashed a …