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A small, unat­tached apart­ment near Wauseon was destroyed by fire early Mon­day morn­ing. The fire was reported around 1:45am at 16520 Ohio 2 by a passerby. The build­ing, owned by Wen­dell Wood, was being used for stor­age and had been unoc­cu­pied for a long time. When fire crews arrived, the …

The dis­tri­b­u­tion of USDA food prod­ucts has been changed from Wednes­day to Fri­day from 9 a.m.-noon at the PATH Cen­ter, 1939 E. Sec­ond St., Defi­ance. The change in dis­tri­b­u­tion is due to Wednesday’s win­ter storm.

Emer­gency respon­ders were called out to Edger­ton Tues­day after­noon after a man who was cut­ting a tree became injured. The man was cut­ting a tree behind a home, seper­ated by about 600 yards of drifted snow from the near­est paved road, which made get­ting him from the acci­dent scene very …

It’s still win­ter folks… Late Tues­day after­noon, offi­cials in Williams County and sur­round­ing areas were prep­ping for our next storm. The National Weather Ser­vice is pre­dict­ing up to ten inches of the white stuff this time around here in Williams County, along with winds gust­ing up to around 30 miles …

ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal is can­cel­ing all non-essential ser­vices for Wednes­day, Feb. 5, due to the impend­ing snow storm. Some physi­cians’ offices on site may stay open and some may close. Patients with appoint­ments are encour­aged to con­tact their doctor’s office to check on the sta­tus of their appoint­ments. Call …

Bryan Police on Mon­day arrested 18 year old Jor­don Boerger of Swan­ton. Boerger was charged with OVI, Open Con­tainer and Pos­ses­sion of Drug Para­pher­na­lia. He was released by police. Also yes­ter­day, Bryan Police say they arrested 18 year old Harley Palenske of Bryan, who they charged with under­age con­sump­tion. Palenske …

Flames Sun­day morn­ing destroyed a rural Defi­ance home. Fire­fight­ers were called out Sun­day morn­ing around 7:20 to the home of Tim and Angie Mor­ris on Defi­ance County Road 424. Fire crews remained on the scene until 1 p.m. Inves­ti­ga­tors say the fam­ily dog alerted every­one to the smell of smoke. …

Williams County Com­mis­sioner Brian Davis, accord­ing to a con­ver­sa­tion with the Bryan Times, was in Colum­bus on Jan. 23rd to attend a Trans­porta­tion Review Advi­sory Coun­cil meet­ing. That’s when Com­mis­sioner Davis found out the Ohio Turn­pike and Infra­struc­ture Com­mis­sion set up a $5 mil­lion, 5-year mit­i­ga­tion pro­gram to help enti­ties …

There were some changes made Mon­day by the Williams County Board of Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties. Board mem­bers Leroy Feather and Mar­lene Oxen­der were hon­ored for their years of ser­vice, and new mem­bers Neil Ober­lin and Ned Garver were sworn in. New offi­cers were also elected for the year with Mark Tip­ton …

The Williams County Fam­ily YMCA is seek­ing out ways it can bet­ter serve the com­mu­nity, and ask­ing for local feed­back. The Y has been doing a sur­vey and is now look­ing for a wider sam­ple to get ideas for future improve­ments. The Bryan Times reports that YMCA offi­cials are wait­ing …