Con­ti­nen­tal Vil­lage Coun­cil met this week, and learned of what will likely be a pretty stiff increase in health insur­ance rates for vil­lage employ­ees. Jonathan Fort­man of Fort­man Insur­ance of Ottawa, told coun­cil about a 22.4 per­cent increase in the village’s employee health insur­ance pre­mium through Med­ical Mutual Insur­ance. Cur­rently, …

If you were plan­ning to head to the library today or tomor­row, you bet­ter make alter­nate plans now. All loca­tions of the Williams County Pub­lic Library in Bryan, Edger­ton, Edon, Pio­neer, Stryker and West Unity are closed today and tomor­row for what the library says will be com­puter sys­tem upgrades. …

Lots of new stu­dents will be greeted by new and ren­o­vated build­ings when they arrive on the main Trine cam­pus in Angola for the start of classes on August 24th. School offi­cials there say enroll­ment is expected to go up for a third straight year, with an antic­i­pated 27 per­cent …

Two peo­ple, includ­ing a woman who was wanted in Steuben County, have been arrested fol­low­ing an inci­dent at the Big Turkey Lake pub­lic access site. 26-year-old Jamie Prater of Orland was found stand­ing next to a pickup truck, allegedly involved in a drug trans­ac­tion. Prater was taken into cus­tody, and …

John Timothy ‘Tim” Price, age 55, of Archbold, Ohio and longtime resident, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 6:15 P.M. on Monday, August 10, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, after an illness of several months. Mr. Price was a graduate of Fremont, Ohio High School, attended …

Janette M. Nofzinger, age 82, of Archbold, passed away Monday evening, August 10, 2015 at Fairlawn Haven Nursing Home in Archbold. Many years ago she had worked at the former Lugbill Restaurant in Archbold. She was also a bookkeeper for her husband, Jesse’s, Sohio Gas route, and a school crossing …

Accord­ing to a report in the North­west Sig­nal, Arch­bold head foot­ball coach Bryan Miller is step­ping down as foot­ball coach. Miller says burnout is the rea­son why he chose to quit just 2 1/2 weeks before the start of the reg­u­lar sea­son. Miller’s announce­ment came after the Blue Streaks had …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion says it may even­tu­ally close all at-grade inter­sec­tions con­nected to U.S. 24 in Pauld­ing County. ODOT says two of those inter­sec­tions would become over­passes, but the other five would remain closed indef­i­nitely. The news came dur­ing the U.S. 24 cor­ri­dor meet­ing which was held Mon­day …

At Monday’s meet­ing of the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers, a review of exist­ing county drainage ditch peti­tions resulted in about 20 prop­erty own­ers show­ing up to talk about it. The review, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, is required by law every six years. The six-year reviews of exit­ing ditches are sep­a­rate …

Folks liv­ing in Pauld­ing could soon have some new income tax ordi­nances to deal with. Changes in the tax struc­ture were dis­cussed by Pauld­ing Vil­lage Coun­cil on Mon­day. At the meet­ing ear­lier this week, Solic­i­tor Mike Jones pre­sented coun­cil mem­bers with a 61-page sam­ple ordi­nance, which is about 40 pages …