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Police say a vehi­cle crashed into a house and garage in Pauld­ing. Accord­ing to a news release from the Pauld­ing County Sher­iff, it hap­pened Mon­day after­noon on Wayne Street, when a vehi­cle dri­ven by 48 year old Miles Goings of Pauld­ing ran off the road and hit a fence and …

Six peo­ple were hurt in a two vehi­cle crash Tues­day morn­ing on U.S. 24. Ohio High­way Patrol troop­ers say it hap­pened Tues­day morn­ing around 10 at the inter­sec­tion of US 24 and Inde­pen­dence Road in Defi­ance County. 77 year old John Davis of Defi­ance was north­bound on Inde­pen­dence Road accord­ing …

Now THIS is going to be an auc­tion! Auc­tions America’s Auburn Spring sale will include roughly 450 cars at no reserve from the John Scotti col­lec­tion from Mon­treal, Canada. The auc­tion runs today through Sat­ur­day at the Auburn Auc­tion Park in Auburn, IN. The col­lec­tion of cars tends toward Amer­i­can …

Bryan city vot­ers approved the renewal of the city’s one-half per­cent income tax. The levy passed with 622 votes in favor of the tax, and 277 against, how­ever those results are still unof­fi­cial. Mayor Doug John­son, after the final results were posted, told the Bryan Times that there will be …

Jason Rockey lost his bid to replace 81st House Dis­trict Rep. Lynn Wacht­mann in the Novem­ber gen­eral elec­tion to Robert McCol­ley of Napoleon. In the State Sen­ate First Dis­trict race, incum­bent Cliff Hite won Williams County and the state. In the Repub­li­can State Cen­tral Com­mit­tee men’s 1st Dis­trict race, James …

The Defi­ance County Board of Elec­tions reports that the Defi­ance City School District’s $11,714,657 bond issue to build new mid­dle school and high school build­ings passed 1,802 votes (56.29 per­cent) to 1,399 (43.71 per­cent). Again, all results are unof­fi­cial until finalized.

Pauld­ing County vot­ers rejected a renewal levy for the county library sys­tem. Accord­ing unof­fi­cial results, the 2.17-mill, five-year renewal levy for the Pauld­ing County Carnegie Library Sys­tem was defeated. The levy would have brought $694,576.94 a year to the library dis­trict, accord­ing to infor­ma­tion from the Pauld­ing County auditor’s office. …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Depart­ment, along with offi­cers in Hills­dale County, Mich., are seek­ing the public’s assis­tance in locat­ing a man in con­nec­tion with a sex­ual assault in Hills­dale County. They say the man had a firearm when he forced his way into the victim’s home. Inves­ti­ga­tors say it’s the …

A new leader for an estab­lished area com­pany… Bill Mar­tin is now the new pres­i­dent and chief finan­cial offi­cer of the Span­gler Candy Com­pany. Mar­tin is the company’s eighth pres­i­dent and he is the first non-family-member to hold the posi­tion in the his­tory of the 108-year-old com­pany. Accord­ing to the …

Jamie Egler, cit­ing per­sonal rea­sons, has turned in his res­ig­na­tion from the Williams County Senior Fair Board, effec­tive retroac­tively to April 28 accord­ing to the Bryan Times. Egler was first elected board pres­i­dent two years ago. He served as vice pres­i­dent for two years before that. All in all, Egler …