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Changes are in store for one area hotel… The Ramada Mont­pe­lier Hotel and Con­fer­ence Cen­ter, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, will change its name and fran­chise affil­i­a­tion to the Qual­ity Inn & Suites. The name change, which will take effect later this year, is part of a total ren­o­va­tion to …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross in Henry County will hold a blood drive on Wednes­day at Wide­wa­ter in Lib­erty Cen­ter from 1–6 p.m. Walk-ins are wel­come. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800-RED-CROSS.

Bryan Police report that they col­lared 33 year old Ken­neth A. Can­field II of N. Wal­nut St., Bryan on a bench war­rant out of Ful­ton County West­ern Dis­trict Court for fail­ing to appear. The orig­i­nal charge was Fail­ing to Com­ply with a law­ful order of a Police Offi­cer. Now Can­field …

Tech­nol­ogy never stands still, and those that embrace it move for­ward. Those that fail to keep up, are left behind. Now, some area first respon­ders are tak­ing a step for­ward with some ground­break­ing tech­nol­ogy that they say will allow them to more quickly respond to emer­gen­cies. The Defi­ance Fire Depart­ment …

The Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety will kick off the 2015 Relay for Life of Williams County on Thurs­day from 5–6:30 p.m. at the Knights of Colum­bus build­ing on Buf­falo Road, in Bryan. There will be infor­ma­tion about the relay, how to get involved, refresh­ments, enter­tain­ment and door prizes. For more infor­ma­tion, …

The MacDonald-Ruff Ice Arena opened up this week­end and is report­edly open today as well. The Bryan Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment offers ice skate rentals and cross coun­try ski rentals there. Ice skates rent for $1 per day and cross coun­try skis and snow­shoes rent for $3 per day. A …

WEDCO has a new leader. Late last week, dur­ing a meet­ing of the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers, Matt Davis was named the new exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Williams County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion. Davis was the unan­i­mous selec­tion over seven other can­di­dates, all whe were exten­sively inter­viewed by the WEDCO search com­mit­tee. …

It may be the mid­dle of win­ter, but spring is com­ing. And that means, that sum­mer won’t be far behind, and that of course, means that the Williams County Fair is once again on the sched­ule. The line-up for the 2015 Williams County Fair has now been offi­cially released and …

A Defi­ance man died in a crash near Ann Arbor, Mich., Fri­day morn­ing. Police say 45 year old Michael Ankney was either walk­ing with a bike or rid­ing a bicy­cle along the road, when he was hit by an as of yet uniden­ti­fied dri­ver. Ankney was taken by ambu­lance to …

National Pie Day rolls around a week from tomor­row, and Sauder Vil­lage wants you to enjoy that day. Among other things, the Dough­box Bak­ery offers free sam­ples of pie all day next Friday. Employ­ees at the Dough­box Bak­ery make nearly 19,000 pies annually.