News

Defi­ance County’s pro­posed cour­t­house ren­o­va­tion project was voted down dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing held Wednes­day.. It seems that the major prob­lem was oppo­si­tion to a lack of admin­is­tra­tive office space reserved for the probate/juvenile courts on the sec­ond floor and con­cerns about the inter­min­gling of inmates going to and from …

Early vot­ing is already under­way for the Nov. 5 elec­tion in Ohio. County boards of elec­tions offices are open for early vot­ing dur­ing reg­u­lar and any extended hours now through Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. Under Ohio law, all reg­is­tered vot­ers have the oppor­tu­nity to vote early with­out stat­ing a …

The Henry County com­mis­sion­ers have hired a deputy dog war­den. Com­mis­sion­ers hired Guy Miller to fill the posi­tion. Miller’s new duties begin effec­tive Oct. 15. Miller will be placed on a 120-day pro­ba­tion­ary period and will receive $10 per hour. In other busi­ness this week, Henry County Com­mis­sion­ers approved a …

It’s always nice to start the morn­ing with some good news… The Bryan Times is report­ing this morn­ing that accord­ing to a study con­ducted by the Internet-based con­sumer sci­ence com­pany Nerd­Wal­let Inc., Williams County, Ohio, is the fifth-best county in the nation in which to work. Nerd­Wal­let eval­u­ated areas that …

The Bryan Area Cham­ber of Com­merce is hold­ing its annual “Meet the Can­di­dates” forum Thurs­day night at 7:30 in the New Era audi­to­rium. The forum is a chance for each can­di­date to step for­ward and present his or her posi­tions. Eights top­ics for pre­sen­ta­tion have already been given to the …

Bryan Police report the arrest of a Bryan man on drug charges. Police say 34 year old Jonathon Herder of North Main Street in Bryan was picked up around noon on Tues­day. Herder was charged with pos­ses­sion of drug para­pher­na­lia and a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion. He was locked behind bars at …

A deci­sion on whether to pro­ceed fur­ther with the pro­posed ren­o­va­tion of the Defi­ance County Cour­t­house was delayed Mon­day, but a deci­sion could be com­ing by Thurs­day. A seven-member com­mit­tee on Mon­day dis­cussed the lat­est plans with the project archi­tect. Some com­mit­tee mem­bers asked more time to review the recent …

Dis­cus­sion about the costs involved in the con­struc­tion of a new water treat­ment plant took place at this week’s meet­ing of the Napoleon City Coun­cil. The mayor was unhappy with fig­ures that were pre­sented to coun­cil a year ago regard­ing the esti­mated cost of con­struct­ing a new water treat­ment plant …

It was a busy Mon­day for Bryan fire­fight­ers. First, just after 7:30am, they rushed to a call con­cern­ing oil con­t­a­m­i­na­tion at the con­flu­ence of Lynn Run, Pigeon Run and Ditch 40 Mon­day morn­ing. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, oil got into the storm sewer and then spilled out into the …

Bryan now has a new drug law on the books, and city offi­cials say they are plan­ning to strictly enforce it in an effort to keep drugs out of the city. On Mon­day, Bryan City Coun­cil approved an ordi­nance ban­ning the man­u­fac­ture, sale, dis­tri­b­u­tion and pos­ses­sion of syn­thetic drugs and …