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The deputy direc­tor of Williams County Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency and 911 Com­mu­ni­ca­tions cen­ter, spoke with West Unity vil­lage coun­cil Thurs­day night about the county’s 2013 Haz­ard Mit­i­ga­tion plan. The Bryan Times reports that after a required five-year review, the plan has been adopted by the county com­mis­sion­ers. It now needs …

The Williams County Democ­rats will hold their annual Sum­mer Pic­nic and Rally this Sun­day at Garver Park’s Rotary Pavil­ion in Bryan, from 2 to 5 p.m. The rally this year will fea­ture an appear­ance by spe­cial guest, Demo­c­ra­tic guber­na­to­r­ial can­di­date Ed FitzGer­ald. He’s due to speak to those attend­ing at …

If you live in Sher­wood and were recently affected by that water boil advi­sory, here’s some good news. The water boil advi­sory in Sher­wood has been lifted. Offi­cials say the boil advi­sory was lifted effec­tive at 2:15 p.m. on Thurs­day. That means that the water in Sher­wood is now ok …

A con­sent judg­ment has been approved in Henry County Com­mon Pleas Court involv­ing Ruralogic Inc. Henry County com­mis­sion­ers have been granted a judg­ment of $182,528 plus approx­i­mately $2,715 in inter­est to be paid by the Bryan-based Ruralogic. Ruralogic offi­cials agreed to make $5,000 monthly pay­ments on the judg­ment, which became …

The National Head Start Asso­ci­a­tion is encour­ag­ing Head Start pro­grams across the entire coun­try to dis­play empty chairs to rep­re­sent the num­ber of slots cut due to the fed­eral bud­get sequester. The Bryan Times reports that Pulaski Head Start, serv­ing Defi­ance, Ful­ton, Henry, Pauld­ing and Williams coun­ties, had 34 empty …

The Williams County Board of Health met on Tues­day. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the board is con­sid­er­ing the pur­chase of a new com­puter sys­tem. Two bids were con­sid­ered, how­ever the dis­cus­sion was tabled until board mem­bers can get more infor­ma­tion. Board mem­bers were also brought up to date about …

Water cus­tomers in Sher­wood lis­ten up. A boil advi­sory is now in effect for all Sher­wood Vil­lage Water Depart­ment cus­tomers until fur­ther notice. The advi­sory comes fol­low­ing a bro­ken water main which occurred early Wednes­day morn­ing. Keep lis­ten­ing… We’ll let you know when that advi­sory is lifted.

Defi­ance City Coun­cil met on Tues­day night, and the forced annex­a­tion pro­gram, along with truck traf­fic on Power Dam Road took up much of the meet­ing. Other items were dis­cussed how­ever. Coun­cil received a pre­sen­ta­tion on a com­mu­nity health improve­ment plan and an update from a per­son pro­mot­ing the city’s …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross of Henry County will hold a blood drive on Sep­tem­ber 5th, from 1–6 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Napoleon Town­ship. Walk-ins are wel­come. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800-RED-CROSS.

A Williams County Grand Jury has handed down indict­ments against a num­ber of peo­ple on var­i­ous charges. Indict­ments were handed down Tues­day against: Jes­sica L. War­ren of Edger­ton; Edward S. R. Ramirez of Bryan; Sammy C. Brown of Mont­pe­lier; Tim­o­thy L. Dull of Hamil­ton, Indi­ana; Christo­pher D. Ervin of But­ler, …