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Although time is run­ning short, as long as they can round up enough signs to make it hap­pen, Defi­ance city offi­cials plan to imple­ment the new one-way traf­fic pat­tern for Fort Street and Wash­ing­ton Avenue, north of Sec­ond Street, by the end of this year. The Cres­cent News reports that …

In Mont­pe­lier on Mon­day, vil­lage coun­cil mem­bers dis­cussed whether golf carts should legally be con­sid­ered a dis­abil­ity vehi­cle. Vil­lage Legal Coun­cil Chris Walker said golf carts that may be dis­al­lowed on streets because of being con­sid­ered unsafe, but that rea­son­able accom­mo­da­tions must be made for those with dis­abil­i­ties. No action …

Williams County com­mis­sion­ers met on Mon­day, and there was some spir­ited dis­cus­sion between the sher­iff and the com­mis­sion­ers. While the com­mis­sion­ers called it a “philo­soph­i­cal dif­fer­ence” Sher­iff Steve Towns says it’s the com­mis­sion­ers’ way of “manip­u­lat­ing” his depart­ment. The dis­agree­ment cen­ters on the com­mis­sion­ers refusal to increase the sheriff’s bud­get …

Bryan Police were busy over the week­end… On Sat­ur­day, police arrested 65 year old William Robert­son, Jr of East High Street in Bryan on a charge of dis­or­derly con­duct. He was then released. Sev­eral arrests on Sun­day, include that of 25 year old Andrew Robers of Fayet­teville, Ten­nessee who was …

Napoleon Police report a num­ber of com­plaints recently con­cern­ing coun­ter­feit cur­rency in Napoleon. Most of the funny money has so far been reported in the form of $20 bills, and police say each of the iden­ti­fied bills has had sim­i­lar or iden­ti­cal ser­ial num­bers. Police also say how­ever, some fake …

In Defi­ance, police have now released the names of those con­nected to the alleged “ille­gal casi­nos” that were raided last Thurs­day. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, Mar­vin Dabish, Robert Dabish and Nadia Dabish, all of Ore­gon, are the alleged own­ers and oper­a­tors of the Talk-N-Win Inter­net cafe in North­towne Mall. …

A strike could be loom­ing at NSCC. The North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, has autho­rized their bar­gain­ing team to deliver a 10-day strike notice to the school’s admin­is­tra­tion. Ear­lier this week, a unan­i­mous vote to employ the strike tac­tic was reached fol­low­ing months of …

A busi­ness in North­towne Mall in Defi­ance was just one of six busi­nesses that were raided Thurs­day morn­ing as part of a crack­down on sus­pected ille­gal casi­nos. Inter­net Cafe, “Talk N Win” was raided yes­ter­day morn­ing by the Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force. Ohio Attor­ney Gen­eral Mike DeWine issued a press …

Another scam is mak­ing the rounds in our area, and this time the warn­ing comes from the Bryan Area Cham­ber of Com­merce. Cham­ber offi­cials say that a local busi­ness got an email adver­tis­ing a “Bryan Award Pro­gram.” The email requested $150, promis­ing a plaque for a “Bryan Award.“ Accord­ing to …

An Ohio State High­way Patrol Trooper liv­ing in Bryan, has been cho­sen as the Trooper of the year at the Defi­ance Post. Matthew Gard­ner, of Bryan, was chosed in recog­ni­tion of his out­stand­ing ser­vice by his fel­low offi­cers sta­tioned at the Defi­ance Post. Trooper Gardner’s lead­er­ship abil­i­ties, pro­fes­sional ethics, cour­te­ous …