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A motor­cy­clist from Canada died early Sun­day morn­ing when his bike was rear ended on I-69 north of Ash­ley. The crash hap­pened at 2:25am at the 343.5 mile marker on the south­bound side of I-69, when a vehi­cle dri­ven by 36 year old Chet Gilbert of Ash­ley, and a Harley …

On Sat­ur­day, June 27, all res­i­dents of Williams County will receive free admis­sion to the his­toric Sauder Vil­lage as part of Williams County Com­mu­nity Appre­ci­a­tion Day. Free admis­sion is being offered to all Williams County res­i­dents as a way to say thank you for their sup­port. On Williams County Day …

Keith Lock­hart now owns a piece of Bryan his­tory. The Bryan Times today, reports that Lock­hart sub­mit­ted the win­ning bid of $30,800 Thurs­day dur­ing an open auc­tion of the for­mer Williams County Sheriff’s Office and county jail build­ing in down­town Bryan. Lock­hart is a Mont­pe­lier con­struc­tion con­trac­tor. He actu­ally bid …

Accord­ing to a deci­sion by the Defi­ance County Board of Elec­tions, a Hicksville may­oral candidate’s Inde­pen­dent sta­tus is invalid. The board decided by a 3–1, that David Schoo­ley can­not run as an Inde­pen­dent for mayor in the Novem­ber gen­eral elec­tion due to his con­nec­tion with the Defi­ance County Demo­c­ra­tic Party. …

A Defi­ance man is now behind bars, after his arrest for tak­ing part in a Wednes­day morn­ing rob­bery at the North­towne Mall. 21 year old Kyle March is being charged with felony rob­bery. He is being held in the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio, and is sched­uled to make an …

The for­mer Williams County jail at the cor­ner of North Beech and West Bryan streets is going on the auc­tion block today. By order of the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers, the two-story, 9,027-square-foot brick for­mer jail and county sheriff’s office will be auc­tioned off to the high­est bid­der. The auc­tion is …

A Defi­ance man was in Defi­ance County Court to answer to two methamphetamine-related charges. 21 year old Schuy­lar Win­kler pleaded guilty to aggra­vated pos­ses­sion of drugs and ille­gal assem­bly or pos­ses­sion of chem­i­cals for the man­u­fac­ture of drugs, both felonies. A pre-sentence inves­ti­ga­tion was ordered and Winkler’s $500,000 cash bond …

Some Pauld­ing County roads have been closed due to high water, and many folks are busy fill­ing sand­bags to help pro­tect homes from ris­ing water. The state has closed Ohio 66 between Ohio 637 and Ohio 613 near Oak­wood as well as Ohio 500 from the Indi­ana state line to …

In But­ler, Police now say that three chil­dren were respon­si­ble for the March 26th fire which destroyed the Old But­ler Com­pany build­ing on South Broad­way. The two boys and a girl… all ages 11 and 12, appar­ently spread gas inside of the build­ing and set a cou­ple of fires. Police …

Arch­bold Vil­lage Coun­cil took steps this week, to place a replace­ment levy on the Novem­ber bal­lot. Coun­cil voted unan­i­mously to place a 3.3-mill replace­ment prop­erty tax levy on the Novem­ber bal­lot. Accord­ing to Arch­bold offi­cials, the replace­ment levy would raise an addi­tional $389,000 per year begin­ning in tax year 2016, …