Lewis R. Ort, 98 years, of Bryan, and formerly of New Hill, North Carolina, passed away Thursday, May 21, 2015 at Hillside County Living, Bryan, with his family at his side.  Lewis was born April 17, 1917 in Defiance, Ohio, the son of the late Roy A. and Olive (Newton) Ort.  He …

Flame on Wednes­day evening destroyed a barn in Pauld­ing County. The fire was first called in just after 9pm with a report of a blaze on County Road 49, near Payne at the barn, owned by Thomas Laukhuf. Payne, Pauld­ing, Scott, Grover Gill and Con­voy fire depart­ments, as well as …

A bicy­clist is dead fol­low­ing an acci­dent Wednes­day evening in Defi­ance. 54 year old John Clay, of Defi­ance, was south­bound on the side­walk of the Clin­ton Street Bridge on Wednes­day night, when he lost con­trol of the bike, and fell into the south­bound lane of the bridge, where he was …

There is a new pres­i­dent of the Defi­ance Area Cham­ber of Com­merce. He’s Dar­rell Handy, who said that he hopes his pro­fes­sional expe­ri­ence and work­ing rela­tion­ships within the com­mu­nity will be an asset as the next cham­ber pres­i­dent. Handy replaces Isaac Lee, who left in March, to become vice pres­i­dent …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol is remind­ing dri­vers this Memo­r­ial Day to not get behind the wheel impaired. Troop­ers and local law enforce­ment will be join­ing forces in an effort to keep Ohio roads fatal­ity free this hol­i­day. Troop­ers made 763 OVI arrests dur­ing the 2014 Memo­r­ial Day hol­i­day. Dur­ing …

Clarence O. “Jim” Bigger, age 78, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 9:43 A.M. on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was a patient. Mr. Bigger was employed by Simpson Industries for many years and also had been employed by Edgerton Forge …

Romauldo Cor­doba Jr. of Arch­bald, was indicted Mon­day in Wauseon on one count of mur­der with a firearm spec­i­fi­ca­tion and one count of felony domes­tic vio­lence. Cor­doba is in Texas, where he was appre­hended last week, await­ing extra­di­tion back to Ohio. If con­victed on the mur­der charge, Cor­doba could be …

Wanted… one good engi­neer. Pay rate… to be deter­mined. In Defi­ance, the city is look­ing to fill the vacant engineer’s posi­tion, but at what cost… that is still up in the air. Some city offi­cials say in order to get the right per­son for the job, they may have to …

Ten indict­ments were handed down this week by a Williams County grand jury. Among them… 33 year old Eric Fuller; 43 year old Mar­tin Her­nan­dez III; 21 year old Jen­nifer Con­ley; 50 year old Anthony Hall­man; 22 year old Anna Garver; 34 year old Joshua Ruther­ford; 43 year old Mark …

At their meet­ing on Mon­day, the Stryker Local Schools Board of Edu­ca­tion approved some per­son­nel changes for the 2015–16 school year. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the board of edu­ca­tion also accepted at least one res­ig­na­tion, that of teacher Beth Lewis, and the hir­ing of sev­eral vol­un­teers. Teach­ing con­tracts for …