Donna Joan Lemons (JoAnn to those who knew her well), age 85, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 7:15 P.M. on Friday, May 8, 2015, in her home, surrounded by her family. Mrs. Lemons was a 1947 graduate of Bryan High School and a devoted homemaker. She enjoyed gardening, feeding …

Virginia Mae “Ginny” Fraker, age 92, of Wauseon, passed away May 8, 2015 at the Fulton Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Wauseon. She was born on August 29, 1922 to Basil and Wave (Hale) Belding of Fayette, Ohio. Virginia graduated from Fayette High School in 1940 and married Donal …

Betty Mae Higley, age 86, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Saturday, May 2, 2015, in Colorado. She loved traveling with her husband, camping, being with family, pitching horseshoes, square and polka dancing, making wine and enjoyed living and working their farm. Betty retired from the Ohio Art Company, the …

Norma J. (Dunham) Rice, age 84, of Archbold, passed away Wednesday evening, May 6, 2015, at the Fairlawn Haven Nursing Home in Archbold. Prior to retirement she had worked as an administrative assistant for Florida Senior Services. Norma was born in Mutual, Ohio on May 6, 1931, the daughter of …

Michael I. Casper, 62 years, of Bryan, passed away Friday, May 8, 2015 at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Michael was born March 4, 1953, in Canton, Ohio, the son of the late Charles E. and Pauline E. (Bake) Casper – Knorr.  He was a 1971 graduate of Antwerp High …

Loretha Joyce (Holbrook) Reader passed away on May 7. Joyce was a two-time kidney transplant survivor and fought a courageous 30-year battle with a degenerative kidney disease.  Joyce was born in Lima, Ohio on February 28, 1954 to Reverend W.J. and Betty (Prater) Holbrook. She moved with her family to Bryan …

Bryan Police were kept busy on Mon­day with sev­eral arrests in the city. First, 19 year old Alexan­der Kochert was busted for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana and drug para­pher­na­lia. Police released him though. Then, 48 year old Kali Hug found her­self on the wrong side of the law, when she was …

The man who was recently involved in a four-hour stand­off with police in Arch­bold, is now dead. 24 year old Ricky Sauber died fol­low­ing a self-inflicted gun­shot wound that was sus­tained dur­ing the inci­dent that hap­pened back on April 17th when police were called to his South Lin­coln Street home …

In Stryker, the vil­lage coun­cil said “NO” to a new tax. How­ever, that won’t pre­vent coun­cil from plac­ing a finance-related issue on the Novem­ber bal­lot. At Monday’s coun­cil meet­ing, the local paper reports that Stryker Coun­cil voted unan­i­mously to seek re-allocation of the cur­rent 0.5-percent income tax, after pre­vi­ously con­sid­er­ing …

The Williams County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion may be hir­ing. WEDCO, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, has received con­di­tional approval to hire an intern this sum­mer. WEDCO board already has a ten­ta­tive intern­ship agree­ment with Defi­ance Col­lege, which will rec­om­mend stu­dents for inter­views for the posi­tion. They hope that they can …