Van­dal­ism has hit Bryan! Bryan Police say sev­eral vehi­cles in the city were van­dal­ized by some­one who used spray paint. It hap­pened on Tues­day night, and for­tu­nately for the vehi­cle own­ers, the paint was appar­ently water based, so it seems to be wash­ing right off. Bryan Police have launched a …

Ellen I. Scantlen, age 77, of Bryan, Ohio, and formerly a longtime resident of Defiance County, died at 11:10 P.M. on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan after a brief illness. Ellen worked as a nurse’s aide at the Defiance County Nursing Home, retiring …

Margaret Ann Gerken, age 80, of Archbold, passed away Wednesday morning, July 15, 2015 at Evergreen Manor in Montpelier. She had worked at Strydel in Stryker, and then for Sauder Woodworking in Archbold, where she retired after 20 years. Margaret was born in Napoleon on May 12, 1935, the daughter …

The Williams County Fair Foun­da­tion Board met recently, and decided to nix the pur­chase of pic­nic tables for the fair­grounds. Pre­vi­ously, the board had agreed to spend about $2,000 for pic­nic tables at the fair­grounds. But after dis­cus­sion, a motion to pur­chase the tables, using the pro­ceeds of a recent …

State school board mem­bers on Tues­day, accused the Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion of break­ing the law by throw­ing online schools’ fail­ing grades out of a char­ter school eval­u­a­tion this year. Accord­ing to the Plain Dealer in Cleve­land, School Choice Direc­tor David Hansen was bound by law to include online school …

A Bryan man was picked up and arrested on a bench war­rant out of Napoleon Munic­i­pal Court. Yes­ter­day after­noon at 3:24PM, Bryan Police caught up with 37 year old Tony Odham of South Wal­nut Street in Bryan. Odham was taken into cus­tody, but he later posted bond and was released.

The Ohio Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency announced Wednes­day it is issu­ing Defi­ance a $393,750 low-interest loan to update the city’s blue­print for con­trol­ling com­bined sewer over­flows, an impor­tant source of phos­pho­rus that pro­duces algae in west­ern Lake Erie and its trib­u­taries. Ini­tial ben­e­fits won’t be real­ized for sev­eral years, until the …

Charles R. “Charlie” Camillo, Jr., age 70, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, at Hillside Country Living, near Bryan. He was a sales representative for Anderson-Vreeland in Bryan, Automated Packaging in Twinsburg, Ohio and Econo Products in Rochester, New York. Charlie enjoyed fishing, golfing, cooking, spending …

Lillian Rosella Towns, 84 years, of West Unity, passed away Tuesday July 14, 2015 at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, Defiance. Lillian was born April 11, 1931 in Williams County, to the late Harlan and Grace (Shaffer) Smith. Lillian married Morris W. Towns on July 17, 1948 in Bryan, Ohio. …

A new chap­ter begins today in Williams County Court, when the county’s first Drug Court con­venes. Judge Stelzer will meet with the court’s team of men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als, recov­ery ser­vices staff and pro­ba­tion depart­ment per­son­nel to con­sider the first four poten­tial can­di­dates for the new ven­ture. Drug Court will now …