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Williams County is step­ping up efforts to col­lect delin­quent prop­erty taxes. The Bryan Times reports today, that Williams County has set a dead­line of May 29 for those with delin­quent prop­erty tax bills to either pay up in full, or set up a pay­ment plan. Those who fail to meet …

Three peo­ple were injured in a one-vehicle crash Sun­day after­noon. It hap­pened on a curve at Henry County Roads 16C and 17, when a vehi­cle dri­ven by 27 year old Ashli Han­son of Napoleon lost con­trol, hit some signs, and then ran into a guardrail, which cause the car to …

On Mon­day, a jury was finally cho­sen for the mur­der trial of Steven Noff­singer in Pauld­ing County. The 59 year old Noff­singer, of Defi­ance, is charged with aggra­vated mur­der in con­nec­tion with the death of his ex-wife, Alma Noff­singer, whose body was found in her home in Oak­wood back in …

Good news for any­one want­ing to expand their busi­ness in Mont­pe­lier… Water tap fees will be waived for at least one busi­ness in the vil­lage. At Monday’s meet­ing, Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage Coun­cil voted unan­i­mously to waive tap fees for Moore Indus­tries on Hen­dricks Drive, which is expand­ing at the site. A …

Alco­hol and drugs are behind a Sun­day arrest by Bryan Police. Early yes­ter­day morn­ing, around 1:45am, 34 year old Malinda Gowins of Lex­ing­ton, Ken­tucky, was arrested for OVI and Pos­ses­sion of Mar­i­juana. Bond was posted and she was released.

An aggra­vated mur­der trial gets under­way today in Pauld­ing. It involves a cold case, going all the way back to 1981. 59 year old Steven Noff­singer of Defi­ance, is charged with the mur­der of his ex-wife, Alma Noff­singer back in 1981. If con­victed, Noff­singer could get 20 years to life …

A shoot­ing in Wauseon on Sat­ur­day morn­ing leaves one man dead. Police have one sus­pect in cus­tody, and they are on the hunt for a sec­ond per­son. 27 year old Joshua McJil­ton of Ocean­side, Cal­i­for­nia but orig­i­nally was from Wauseon, was shot in a park­ing lot on Depot Street. McJil­ton …

A woman was arrested after she allegedly broke into two Mont­pe­lier homes on Fri­day. In the first inci­dent, the home­owner told police he came home to find a woman, who he said appeared to be under the influ­ence of drugs or alco­hol, inside his home. He said he tried to …

Good news on the jobs front for Williams County: its 5.1 per­cent unem­ploy­ment rate in March was the best in the four-county area, though all four coun­ties saw reduc­tions in job­less­ness. Williams’ rate is a full per­cent­age point lower than in March 2014, when it stood at 6.1 per­cent. Williams …

Williams County is about to be part of one of the largest cap­i­tal improve­ment pro­grams in a decade. The Ohio Turn­pike and Infra­struc­ture Com­mis­sion listed two projects in the county along the Ohio Turn­pike for con­struc­tion in the com­ing months. One project would repave almost six miles of road­way start­ing …