50 new full-time jobs are com­ing to Williams County, thanks to a road­work project grant. State sen­a­tor Cliff Hite made the announce­ment yes­ter­day that the vil­lage of Pio­neer received a $500,000 Road­work Devel­op­ment Grant from the state to extend Clark Street to Core Way Drive, mak­ing a con­nec­tion to High­way …

A pair of Arch­bold High School stu­dents are in hot water for cir­cu­lat­ing nude pic­tures via text mes­sage with other stu­dents. The two 17-year-olds, whose names have not been released due to their age, are fac­ing felony charges. Three addi­tional juve­niles are look­ing at mis­de­meanor charges in the case, which …

39-year-old Jimmy Mat­ney of Defi­ance died from a heroin over­dose on Dec. 27, 2013. Now, the man who sold him the drugs has been con­victed for Matney’s death. 32-year-old Robert R. Kramer was found guilty of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter fol­low­ing a three-day trial in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Sen­tenc­ing is …

Betty Jean Sanders, age 87, of Montpelier, Ohio, and a longtime resident of Bryan, Ohio, died at 5:00 A.M. on Monday, April 20, 2015, at Park View Nursing Center in Edgerton, Ohio, where she was a patient, after an extended illness. Mrs. Sanders was a 1946 graduate of Bryan High …

Cinda S. Meyer, age 72, of Wauseon, passed away on Sunday, April 19, 2015, in her home. Cinda was born in Lightsville, Ohio on September 28, 1942, the daughter of Lloyd and Elidine (Oswald) Winterrowd. On June 1, 1963 she married Paul E. Meyer, and he survives. Also surviving is …

Opal V. Kimberly, age 93, of Evansport, passed away in her home on Monday, April 20, 2015. She had been a housewife and in the 1950’s she worked at the former Eddie’s Glass Bar in Stryker, where she met her husband, John. She also helped John on the family farm. …

A com­puter virus that affected thou­sands of web­sites also hit the Arch­bold Area School Dis­trict web­site last week, accord­ing to the Bryan Times. The virus dis­played a mes­sage claim­ing to be from the the ter­ror­ist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, bet­ter known as ISIS. So far, no dam­age …

Hills­dale Inter­me­di­ate School Dis­trict has a new board mem­ber fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of the board’s pres­i­dent last month. Valerie White, a Hills­dale res­i­dent and assis­tant pros­e­cut­ing attor­ney for Branch County, was selected from four can­di­dates who fielded ques­tions from the school board. White high­lighted her back­ground in law as a …

Hills­dale city lead­ers are look­ing at chang­ing the code that deals with open burn­ing restric­tions. A pro­posed amend­ment would ban all open­ing burn­ing in the city between mid­night and 4am except for cook­ing grills, mean­ing no camp­fires, open fire pits, or bon­fires. Out­door fires of any kind, includ­ing grills and …

Indi­ana State Trooper Peter Bradley of Noble County was awarded the department’s Sil­ver Star for res­cu­ing a dis­tressed pad­dle boater last August. Two adults and two chil­dren were in the boat on Knapp Lake a few miles north­west of Fort Wayne when it started to founder. One of the adults …