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Quadco exec­u­tives began annual plan­ning with the mem­bers of the Admin­is­tra­tive and Non-Profit Boards on Tues­day. There are now 15 peo­ple in the train­ing pro­gram work­ing along­side other employ­ees at Quadco’s Stryker Sub­way and the Bryan and Defi­ance Sub­ways located in the Wal­mart stores. They are learn­ing to do the …

Bryan Police arrested 24 year old Michael Jorkos of Stryker on Sun­day. Jorkos was charged with dri­ving with an open con­tainer in his vehi­cle. He was processed and then released. On Mon­day, Bryan Police arrested 45 year old Judd But­ter­more of Mont­pe­lier. But­ter­more was charged with speed­ing, fail­ure to dis­play …

A spe­cial meet­ing of the Board of Edu­ca­tion of the Bryan City School Dis­trict is sched­uled for Mon­day, June 10th at 7pm in the Bryan Mid­dle School Com­mons. The pur­pose of the meet­ing will be to hold a pub­lic dis­cus­sion relat­ing to school dis­trict facil­ity plan­ning and other items of …

The Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial Build­ing and Plaza on the Williams County fair­grounds was ded­i­cated Sun­day after­noon. The plaza con­tains the names of thir­teen thou­sand vet­er­ans from Williams County who served in the U.S. mil­i­tary. The plaza and hall were a grass-roots effort to honor local veterans.

A 17-year-old boy from sub­ur­ban Detroit drowned after the boat in which he and a com­pan­ion were fish­ing over­turned. It hap­pened early Sun­day morn­ing near Wolf Lake in Lenawee County, about 15 miles north­west of Adrian. Author­i­ties say police and fire offi­cials deter­mined that two teenagers were out fish­ing when …

An acci­dent occurred around noon Mon­day on US24 at Road 133 near the Defi­ance County Line. Two were vehi­cles involved, one a mini­van and one car. Report­edly four peo­ple were injured. An air ambu­lance trans­ported two of the injured from the scene. The west­bound lane of US 24 was stopped. …

A Defi­ance fire­fighter charged with start­ing a fire in his garage has pleaded guilty to reduced charges. 29 year old Mark Seib­ert pleaded guilty in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court to two counts of crim­i­nal dam­ag­ing. The judge placed him on non­re­port­ing pro­ba­tion for two years and ordered him to …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol is remind­ing dri­vers to not get behind the wheel impaired this Memo­r­ial Day week­end. Troop­ers will be work­ing along­side local law enforce­ment offi­cers in an effort to have a week­end free of impaired-fatal crashes. Memo­r­ial Day week­end is tra­di­tion­ally a dan­ger­ous hol­i­day period on Ohio …

The Fed­eral Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion has a prob­lem with the Williams County Air­port, and it’s just the right kind of prob­lem to have. Air Traf­fic at the Williams County Air­port has more than dou­bled over the last 18 months. Due to the increased usage, the Bryan Times reports that the FAA …

The vil­lage of West Unity has announced that two street paving projects will begin in June. ODOT will mill and pave U.S. 127, both north and south of the village’s down­town limit. Gerken Paving is the sub­con­trac­tor for that job. In addi­tion, M&M Asphalt, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, will …