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The National Head Start Asso­ci­a­tion is encour­ag­ing Head Start pro­grams across the entire coun­try to dis­play empty chairs to rep­re­sent the num­ber of slots cut due to the fed­eral bud­get sequester. The Bryan Times reports that Pulaski Head Start, serv­ing Defi­ance, Ful­ton, Henry, Pauld­ing and Williams coun­ties, had 34 empty …

The Williams County Board of Health met on Tues­day. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the board is con­sid­er­ing the pur­chase of a new com­puter sys­tem. Two bids were con­sid­ered, how­ever the dis­cus­sion was tabled until board mem­bers can get more infor­ma­tion. Board mem­bers were also brought up to date about …

Water cus­tomers in Sher­wood lis­ten up. A boil advi­sory is now in effect for all Sher­wood Vil­lage Water Depart­ment cus­tomers until fur­ther notice. The advi­sory comes fol­low­ing a bro­ken water main which occurred early Wednes­day morn­ing. Keep lis­ten­ing… We’ll let you know when that advi­sory is lifted.

Defi­ance City Coun­cil met on Tues­day night, and the forced annex­a­tion pro­gram, along with truck traf­fic on Power Dam Road took up much of the meet­ing. Other items were dis­cussed how­ever. Coun­cil received a pre­sen­ta­tion on a com­mu­nity health improve­ment plan and an update from a per­son pro­mot­ing the city’s …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross of Henry County will hold a blood drive on Sep­tem­ber 5th, from 1–6 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Napoleon Town­ship. Walk-ins are wel­come. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800-RED-CROSS.

A Williams County Grand Jury has handed down indict­ments against a num­ber of peo­ple on var­i­ous charges. Indict­ments were handed down Tues­day against: Jes­sica L. War­ren of Edger­ton; Edward S. R. Ramirez of Bryan; Sammy C. Brown of Mont­pe­lier; Tim­o­thy L. Dull of Hamil­ton, Indi­ana; Christo­pher D. Ervin of But­ler, …

Two men from Indi­ana who were already charged with car thefts from Williams County, and allegedly cook­ing meth, were indicted Tues­day on more charges. The Williams County grand jury list of indict­ments released Tues­day includes 24 year old Tim­o­thy Dull of Hamil­ton, Indi­ana, and 22 year old Christo­pher Ervin of …

Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the Williams County Sheriff’s Office could be over bud­get by the end of the year. Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers addressed their con­cerns in an open let­ter to the Sher­iff on Mon­day. That let­ter said that based on a review con­ducted July 31st, nine bud­getary line items …

The Bryan First Church of Christ is host­ing a street fair for kids in the church’s park­ing lot between the library and the church and on Wal­nut Street between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m Sat­ur­day. Wal­nut Street will be closed between High and Bryan streets for the fair. Every­thing will …

Three peo­ple were injured in a motor­cy­cle crash in Henry County on Mon­day evening. The Henry County Sheriff’s Office reports the crash hap­pened at about 8PM at East and Plum streets, when a motor­cy­cle dri­ven by 31 year old Toby Borstel­man of Lib­erty Cen­ter ran into the rear of a …