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 …

His­tory was made this past week as two Mont­pe­lier women became the first same-sex cou­ple to be legally mar­ried in Williams County. April and Kee­ley Robarge, who are 23 and 28 years old, and have spent the last three years together, are now start­ing a new chap­ter of their life …

Charlene C. Housh, 87, of Montpelier, passed away Tuesday morning at her home. She was born on June 11, 1928 in Decatur, Illinois to George A. and Verna V. (Crawford) Shaw. Charlene was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Bobby F. “Cricket” Housh and son, Randy L. Housh. A …

Well, here’s some good news for folks liv­ing in Bryan. The Bryan Times today reports that, accord­ing to a Utah based home secu­rity sys­tems com­pany… Safe­wise, Bryan is the safest city in Ohio. The rank­ing comes fol­low­ing a report that shows that Bryan only had one reported vio­lent crime, and …