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Gov­er­nor John Kasich showed up to make a cam­paign speech in our area Fri­day evening. Kasich, who is seek­ing re-election in Novem­ber, vis­ited the Glen New­comer farm on Ohio 15, just south of Bryan. It was open to the pub­lic, and spon­sored by the Williams County Repub­li­can Party. About 250 …

Inves­ti­ga­tors have now deter­mined that the cause of a fire that left a Defi­ance man crit­i­cally injured back on Aug. 3rd, was acci­den­tal. It hap­pened at a home on North­wood Drive in Defi­ance, when Gre­gory Dob­son used some accel­er­ant to light a char­coal grill, which was close to the house. …

Two peo­ple in Henry County were arrested fol­low­ing a theft inves­ti­ga­tion. The Henry County Sheriff’s office says 38 year old Erica Simon, and 37 year old Frank Simon, both from the Mal­inta area were both taken into cus­tody. Erica Simon has been charged with theft; Frank Simon has been arrested …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office says 55 year old Colleen Schlosser of Eden was involved in a sin­gle vehi­cle acci­dent on Mon­day morn­ing on County Road 1.5 just south of US-20 in North­west Town­ship, when she hit a deer that ran onto the high­way. Her vehi­cle sus­tained minor dam­age. No …

Gov. John Kasich is com­ing to Williams County. The gov­er­nor plans to stop at a local farm in our area late this after­noon. Accord­ing to the governor’s press office, he will be stop­ping between 5:30–6:30 this after­noon at the Glen New­comber farm south of Bryan. Every­one is wel­come to stop …

A Defi­ance woman is now fac­ing two charges, includ­ing attempted aggra­vated mur­der, in con­nec­tion with a shoot­ing inci­dent last month involv­ing her estranged hus­band. 44 year old Pauletta Sali­nas was indicted Thurs­day by a Defi­ance County Grand Jury on a list of charges stem­ming from the inci­dent, includ­ing firearms charges. …

Early Thurs­day morn­ing, Bryan Police arrested 29 year old Cecil C. Web­ster. Web­ster was nabbed on a Felony War­rant from the She­boy­gan County Sheriff’s Depart­ment, She­boy­gan, Wis­con­sin. The charge for that war­rant was Escape. Web­ster was taken to CCNO where he was locked up, most likely await­ing extra­di­tion back to …

As the new school year is set to get under­way, the Ohio High­way Patrol is remind­ing dri­vers to watch out for stopped school buses on the road­ways. Dri­vers are cau­tioned to stop at least 10 feet back when approach­ing a school bus from either direc­tion if it has it’s flash­ing …

Defiance’s River­side Ceme­tery has been in the news a lot over the past cou­ple of months. The ceme­tery was once again a major topic of dis­cus­sion on Tues­day night at the Defi­ance City Coun­cil meet­ing. The Cres­cent News reports that dur­ing a July meet­ing, it was learned that River­side Ceme­tery …

The Bryan Area Foun­da­tion announced Wednes­day, that appli­ca­tions for the 2014–2015 Grants Pro­gram are now avail­able to 501©(3) non­profit orga­ni­za­tions in the Bryan area. The Foun­da­tion has nearly $300,000 avail­able for com­mu­nity grants. Thou­sands of dol­lars of grant funds are awarded each year from des­ig­nated, orga­ni­za­tional endow­ment, donor advised funds, …