A 75-year-old man and 66-year-old woman in Napoleon have been arrested for Pos­ses­sion of Cocaine. The Multi Area Nar­cotics Task Force, along with Napoleon Police and the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, exe­cuted a search war­rant at 50 Sun­ny­dale Lane in Napoleon, where they found sus­pected cocaine and paraphernalia. 75 year …

Power was out for more than 8 hours Tues­day in down­town Pauld­ing after a semi got caught on a power line. Pauld­ing Police say it hap­pened Tues­day, just after­noon, when Tim Free­man, the truck dri­ver, was try­ing to find his way out of town, when his trailer caught the low …

Pauld­ing Put­nam Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive is oper­at­ing under a peak alert today. It’s all due to the hot tem­per­a­tures, and the load fore­cast. PPEC reports that it will be under a peak alert from 2–8 p.m. That’s when all cus­tomers are asked to con­serve energy, along with any peak hours, to …

A Williams County man has been charged with mur­der… again! 24 year old Tyson Reli­ford of Edger­ton, is charged with first degree mur­der in con­nec­tion with the death of 3-year-old Colum­bus girl ear­lier this year. Reli­ford was also charged with assault and child endan­ger­ment in con­nec­tion to an inci­dent that …

A Defi­ance man is sched­uled to be arraigned Mon­day in Williams County Court on charges that he sex­u­ally abused a minor. 42 year old Bobby Strat­ton was indicted ear­lier this month by a Williams County grand jury on one count of sex­ual bat­tery and two counts of unlaw­ful sex­ual con­duct …

Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter is work­ing on a plan that will com­ply with new Med­ic­aid con­flict of inter­est rules affect­ing county boards of devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties across the state and the coun­try. At their reg­u­lar Admin­is­tra­tive and Non-Profit Board meet­ing on Tues­day, board mem­bers learned that the cen­ter is plan­ning to pri­va­tize …

A Pauld­ing County Sheriff’s Office pris­oner trans­port van crashed on Mon­day, injur­ing a Pauld­ing County offi­cer and five inmates. It hap­pened at the inter­sec­tion of Ohio 613 and Ohio 637 around 8AM Mon­day, when another vehi­cle dri­ven by 49 year old Mark Rol­ston of Michi­gan, failed to yield to the …

The Mont­pe­lier Water Depart­ment will begin the annual fire hydrant flush­ing and flow-testing pro­gram on Mon­day, August 3rd. They say work is expected to be wrapped up on or before Fri­day, August 14th. Dur­ing the flush­ing and test­ing, cus­tomers may notice some dis­col­oration in their water. These con­di­tions are only …

Well, this isn’t good… It seems that the bids for the ren­o­va­tion project at the Williams County Emer­gency Med­ical Ser­vices build­ing came in over the orig­i­nal esti­mate. Way, way over in fact! The orig­i­nal esti­mate was for right around $250,00o. A bid from one con­trac­tor came in at $353,610. Another …

Merit Wallace Smith, age 96, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 6:15 P.M. on Thursday, July 23, 2015, at Genesis HealthCare, Bryan Facility, where was a resident. Mr. Smith was a 1937 graduate of Gorham Fayette High School and a veteran of the Unites States Army, who served in World War …