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Bryan will soon be updat­ing deeds with landown­ers along Ohio 111 in Defi­ance County near it’s hydro­elec­tric plant which sits just south of Defi­ance. The Bryan Times reports that Brian Car­lin, the Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties Direc­tor, noted that a new prop­erty owner along the river in that area brought some …

Williams County Sher­iffs Deputies made an arrest yes­ter­day after­noon. Peter James Oiler of ALL-VERDTON, was arrested on a Williams County Grand Jury Indict­ment for 10 counts of cor­rupt­ing another with drugs and one count each of per­mit­ting drug abuse and fur­nish­ing alco­hol to under­age indi­vid­u­als. Oiler was taken to the …

In Wauseon, it appears that Council-man Mar­tin Estrada will keep his seat, despite the recent dis­cov­ery that he was not a reg­is­tered Ful­ton County voter at the time of his appoint­ment to coun­cil. The Cres­cent News reports that Wauseon Mayor Kathy Huner said, at this week’s meet­ing, that she will …

A Bryan woman was locked up after being arrested early this morn­ing by Bryan Police. 19 year old Kylie Cran­son of South Cherry Street was arrested this morn­ing just after mid­night, on charges of assault and crim­i­nal tres­pass. She was taken to CCNO. Bryan Police have declined to pro­vide any …

Defi­ance County Audi­tor Jill Lit­tle has released a report for Feb­ru­ary. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, real estate trans­fers num­bered 160 last month, up from 124 a year ago, and real estate sales value was also up, com­ing in at $4,283,297 as opposed to last Feb­ru­ary when it totaled $3,471,397. …

In Edger­ton, the vil­lage coun­cil on Mon­day night at their reg­u­lar meet­ing, approved the pur­chase of a vehi­cle. The village’s water depart­ment had requested that coun­cil pur­chase a 2012 Ram 2500 4×4 with ser­vice body, includ­ing a ten-year war­ranty, for $27,000. That comes in at around $2,000 less than what …

Edon Vil­lage Coun­cil met Mon­day evening, and with lit­tle else on their plate last night, passed an ordi­nance adopt­ing amend­ments to the zon­ing code regard­ing height restric­tions in the com­mer­cial and busi­ness dis­trict. In other light action, coun­cil approved a res­o­lu­tion allow­ing the vil­lage to par­tic­i­pate in the Ohio Pub­lic …

A shoot­ing in Hicksville leaves one man seri­ously injured, and his mother in cus­tody. 45 year old Gus Camp was listed Mon­day night as being in “crit­i­cal” con­di­tion at Fort Wayne’s Lutheran Hos­pi­tal, after he was shot by his 71 year old mother, Mar­garet Camp at her home on Cor­nelia …

An OVI arrest over the week­end in Bryan. Bryan Police pulled 40 year old Mar­llo Jones of South Emmett Street over at 11:53pm on Sun­day. Jones was cited for OVI and then released. On Sun­day morn­ing just before 2am, 24 year old Matthew Quillen of Town­line Road was stopped by …

A Bryan woman who police arrested at the scene of two sep­a­rate drug raids in Williams County, pleaded guilty last week to charges related to pro­duc­tion of metham­phet­a­mine. 56 year old Julie Austin pleaded guilty in Williams County Court to ille­gal assem­bly or pos­ses­sion of chem­i­cals for man­u­fac­ture of drugs. …