Government

A long-time Napoleon fire­man and a man who was cur­rently serv­ing as a mem­ber of the Napoleon City Coun­cil has passed away. 80 year old James Her­sh­berger died Tues­day at the Uni­ver­sity of Toledo Med­ical Cen­ter. Emer­gency crews answered a call for help on Mon­day evening at the Napoleon City …

Some enlight­en­ing news for Bryan… On Tues­day, the Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs approved the pur­chase of new, mod­ern styled, alu­minum street­light poles at a cost of $748 each. The new poles will replace the old, out­dated poles on South Main Street. The Bryan Times reports 27 poles will be …

Pio­neer Vil­lage Coun­cil on Tues­day evening, voted to raise the level of ser­vice pro­vided by area emer­gency respon­ders. The Bryan Times reports that coun­cil approved the pur­chase of two new defib­ril­la­tors for the fire depart­ment. The cur­rent defib­ril­la­tors, accord­ing to fire depart­ment offi­cials, are eight years old, out­dated and not …

Defi­ance County com­mis­sion­ers are sched­uled to meet today. They have a num­ber of items on the agenda. Fol­low­ing gen­eral ses­sion, the com­mis­sion­ers will be meet­ing with county eco­nomic devel­op­ment direc­tor Jerry Hayes. They also plan to dis­cuss the cour­t­house project and receive an update from the County Recorder.

Pio­neer Coun­cil, at their meet­ing Tues­day night, approved demo­li­tion of the old water tower. Coun­cil mem­bers said to have the old tower painted and sealed would cost more than demo­li­tion. The Bryan Times reports that coun­cil approved Rural Water Ser­vices Stor­age LLC of Cam­den, Ohio to demol­ish the tank at …

Williams County Health Com­mis­sioner James Watkins told the County Board of Health on Tues­day that he’s con­sid­er­ing a run for president-elect of the Asso­ci­a­tion of Ohio Health Com­mis­sion­ers, pend­ing approval by the board. Board mem­bers, after a short dis­cus­sion accord­ing to the Bryan Times, encour­aged Watkins to run for the …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers voted unan­i­mously last week to fire Hill­side Coun­try Liv­ing Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Terry Schollmeier after a review of atten­dance records showed that poli­cies were incon­sis­tently fol­lowed. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, “Cer­tain employ­ees were dis­ci­plined for atten­dance issues and oth­ers are not.”The inves­ti­ga­tion was com­pleted by an inde­pen­dent …

The Defi­ance County engineer’s office has closed Har­ris Road, between Mans­field Road and the Defiance-Putnam County Line Road for sev­eral days for road­side grad­ing. The clo­sure went into effect Thurs­day. The road will not be open to either emer­gency vehi­cles or the gen­eral public.

Defi­ance city vot­ers will decide on whether to imple­ment an addi­tional 0.3 per­cent income tax for police and fire ser­vices in the Novem­ber elec­tions. Fol­low­ing a sec­ond read­ing on Tues­day, Defi­ance City Coun­cil sus­pended the rules and approved an ordi­nance levy­ing the increase and a res­o­lu­tion plac­ing the issue before …

The Gov­er­nor on Tues­day signed into law an effec­tive ban on store­front sweep­stakes par­lors that leg­is­la­tors had become con­vinced were har­bor­ing ille­gal gam­bling oper­a­tions. An imme­di­ate mora­to­rium on open­ing new Inter­net cafes is now in force until the law signed Tues­day takes effect. More than 620 Inter­net cafes oper­ate in …