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Bryan Police on Wednes­day, arrested a 19 year old Bryan man. Jerad Car­roll is now charged with domes­tic vio­lence. No other details have been released sur­round­ing that arrest, but police do say that Car­roll was locked up in CCNO.

A train acci­dent Wednes­day morn­ing near Defi­ance… A CSX train and a dump truck col­lided at a cross­ing on Tit­tle Road just after 9:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing. There were six engines on the west­bound train. All were dam­aged, includ­ing dam­age to the fuel tanks on each engine. The train took amost a mile …

The Flo­rence Town­ship fire depart­ment suf­fered a dev­as­tat­ing fire May 2nd. The fire sta­tion was heav­ily dam­aged, the all four of the township’s fire trucks were destroyed in the blaze. The Bryan Times today, is report­ing that a spe­cial meet­ing was called by the Bryan City Counci on Tues­day, and …

The Mont­pe­lier Exempted Board of Edu­ca­tion on Tues­day evening, went over per­son­nel approvals and ser­vice con­tracts for to the 2015–16 school year. In addi­tion, sev­eral stu­dents were rec­og­nized for their out­stand­ing aca­d­e­mic and artis­tic achieve­ments. At yesterday’s meet­ing, the five year fore­cast was approved, in which, accord­ing to The Times, …

Just what con­t­a­m­i­nants exist on the for­mer SK Hand Tools prop­erty in Defi­ance may be learned soon if an EPA grant comes through. Dur­ing their Mon­day meet­ing, Defi­ance County com­mis­sion­ers dis­cussed the lat­est devel­op­ments in efforts to clean up and mar­ket the prop­erty, which has report­edly dete­ri­o­rated greatly since the …

Bryan Police were kept busy on Mon­day with sev­eral arrests in the city. First, 19 year old Alexan­der Kochert was busted for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana and drug para­pher­na­lia. Police released him though. Then, 48 year old Kali Hug found her­self on the wrong side of the law, when she was …

The man who was recently involved in a four-hour stand­off with police in Arch­bold, is now dead. 24 year old Ricky Sauber died fol­low­ing a self-inflicted gun­shot wound that was sus­tained dur­ing the inci­dent that hap­pened back on April 17th when police were called to his South Lin­coln Street home …

In Stryker, the vil­lage coun­cil said “NO” to a new tax. How­ever, that won’t pre­vent coun­cil from plac­ing a finance-related issue on the Novem­ber bal­lot. At Monday’s coun­cil meet­ing, the local paper reports that Stryker Coun­cil voted unan­i­mously to seek re-allocation of the cur­rent 0.5-percent income tax, after pre­vi­ously con­sid­er­ing …

The Williams County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion may be hir­ing. WEDCO, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, has received con­di­tional approval to hire an intern this sum­mer. WEDCO board already has a ten­ta­tive intern­ship agree­ment with Defi­ance Col­lege, which will rec­om­mend stu­dents for inter­views for the posi­tion. They hope that they can …

Antique car col­lec­tors from through­out the Mid­west will be meet­ing in Arch­bold on Sat­ur­day for the annual Antique Car Gath­er­ing at Sauder Vil­lage. More than 100 antique auto­mo­biles are already reg­is­tered for this pop­u­lar spring event — offer­ing a unique view of the auto­mo­biles of days gone by. Add to …