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 …

More evi­dence that drugs are becom­ing a major prob­lem in our area… Two peo­ple from Alvord­ton were indicted by a Ful­ton County grand jury this week on drug related charges. 37 year old William Mohr is charged with eight counts of ille­gal assem­bly or pos­ses­sion of chem­i­cals for man­u­fac­ture of …

Farm­ers here in north­west Ohio may soon find them­selves hit with a big tax bill. The Bryan Times reports, it’s all because of a com­plex for­mula, called Cur­rent Agri­cul­tural Use Value, that was orig­i­nally designed to save farm­ers money on their taxes. It was orig­i­nally set up back in the …

The Gov­er­nors High­way Safety Asso­ci­a­tion says motor­cy­cle fatal­li­ties fell slightly in 2014, for the sec­ond straight year. Report author Allan Williams says how­ever, there is still much work to be done to help keep motor­cy­cle dri­vers safe. The report finds that motor­cy­cle fatal­i­ties are up 26 per­cent from 10 years …