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A freewill pan­cake and sausage break­fast will be held tomor­row morn­ing from 7–11 at the Farmer Amer­i­can Legion Hall to ben­e­fit the fam­ily of Alexan­der Tressler, the 10-year-old son of Shana Tressler of Defi­ance County, who was severely injured in a fire on Oct. 8th. The lit­tle boy received third-degree …

A grand jury this week, handed down an indicte­ment against a Delta man for allegedly caus­ing the death of a Wauseon man last month. Dale Sil­veous Jr. is charged with invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter, a first-degree felony; reck­less homi­cide, a third-degree felony; two counts of traf­fick­ing in heroin, both fifth-degree felonies; and …

WBNO-WQCT News has learned that Dia­mond Zim­mer­man is resign­ing from the posi­tion of Williams County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Coor­di­na­tor. Zim­mer­man was arrested last month on an OVI charge. Accord­ing to a WEDCO press release we received yes­ter­day, Zimmerman’s res­ig­na­tion took effect imme­di­ately. Zim­mer­man will get a 30-day sev­er­ance pack­age as part …

Chief Super Mar­ket has been sold. Chief was acquired by Fresh Encounter Inc. of Find­lay on Wednes­day. Fresh Encounter CEO and Pres­i­dent Michael Needler JR, released a state­ment say­ing that the Chief loca­tions will increase the retail foot­print of Fresh in Ohio and Indi­ana. He said that cus­tomers will not …

A Williams County grand jury met Wednes­day and returned indict­ments against six peo­ple. Among those indicted was the for­mer prin­ci­pal at Lin­coln Ele­men­tary in Bryan. Tamara… or “Tammy” Dar­row has been indicted on a felony theft charge. Dar­row is accused of steal­ing grant funds from the school. The indict­ment alleges …

It was close, but now that the pro­vi­sional bal­lots have been counted, the Pauld­ing County Carnegie Library levy offi­cially passed. After the gen­eral elec­tion, the district’s 1.5-mill levy — which was a renewal with a decrease — had passed by a vote of 2,895 to 2,875. How­ever, there were 63 …

Police say a man from Ottoville was found dead in his vehi­cle Mon­day after­noon in Put­nam County. The body of 79 year old Vic­tor Fis­chbach was found in a van in a road­side drainage ditch along County Road 23-Q, north of County Road T around 3 yes­ter­day after­noon. The van …

At Monday’s meet­ing of the Lib­erty Cen­ter Local Board of Edu­ca­tion, Super­in­ten­dent Kristi Thomp­son ten­dered her let­ter of res­ig­na­tion, effec­tive Nov. 14th. Board mem­bers then went into exec­u­tive ses­sion to dis­cuss it, and they also talked about the hir­ing of Dr. Mar­cia Rozevink as interim super­in­ten­dent effec­tive imme­di­ately. Then, board …

Seems like old man win­ter is arriv­ing a bit early this year, and accord­ing to the Bryan Times, local offi­cials aren’t tak­ing any chances. They report that the county has pur­chased enough salt, sand and liq­uid heat for any sur­prises that may come along. The local road crews cover up …

A man from Mont­pe­lier will spend five years in prison for the sex­ual abuse of a child. 31 year old Randy Kirk­endall Jr had pre­vi­ously pleaded guilty to 10 crim­i­nal counts related to crimes involv­ing a 6-year-old girl which took place between July 1, 2013 and June 7 of this …