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Williams County Health Com­mis­sioner James Watkins told the County Board of Health on Tues­day that he’s con­sid­er­ing a run for president-elect of the Asso­ci­a­tion of Ohio Health Com­mis­sion­ers, pend­ing approval by the board. Board mem­bers, after a short dis­cus­sion accord­ing to the Bryan Times, encour­aged Watkins to run for the …

A 5-K run/walk, cruise-in and Zumba demon­stra­tions will all be a part of the Relay for Life of Hicksville, which is sched­uled for Fri­day and Sat­ur­day at the Hicksville High School. The Relay for Life is a fundraiser for the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety, with pro­ceeds going to can­cer research and …

Defi­ance County’s 911 direc­tor has now been offi­cially ter­mi­nated over alle­ga­tions con­cern­ing her expenses, how­ever offi­cials now say no case will be pre­sented for pros­e­cu­tion. Carol Armitage was offi­cially ter­mi­nated as the 911 direc­tor, effec­tive May 17. Armitage had been on admin­is­tra­tive leave with­out pay fol­low­ing alle­ga­tions of “pos­si­ble fal­si­fi­ca­tion …

A Williams County Grand Jury on Mon­day released it’s list of indict­ments. All in all, 14 peo­ple were indicted, one remains secret. The oth­ers are: 28 year old Matthew Goebel of Edger­ton; 60 year old Ronald Snider of Bryan; 50 year old Larry McIn­toxh of Bryan; 24 year old Shane …

The Bryan Board of Edu­ca­tion will be hold­ing a spe­cial meet­ing on Mon­day, June 24th begin­ning at 9am. The loca­tion of the meet­ing has been changed to the New Era Build­ing. Any­one inter­ested in attend­ing should note the change of loca­tion for this par­tic­u­lar meeting.

A cor­rec­tions offi­cer at the North­west Ohio Juve­nile Deten­tion, Train­ing and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter has been charged in con­nec­tion with the sex­ual bat­tery of a juve­nile under court cus­tody. 27 year old Robert R. Plotts of Hol­gate, is accused of com­mit­ting the crime on or around May 11. Accord­ing to the …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers voted unan­i­mously last week to fire Hill­side Coun­try Liv­ing Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Terry Schollmeier after a review of atten­dance records showed that poli­cies were incon­sis­tently fol­lowed. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, “Cer­tain employ­ees were dis­ci­plined for atten­dance issues and oth­ers are not.”The inves­ti­ga­tion was com­pleted by an inde­pen­dent …

The Bryan City Schools facil­i­ties plan will go before the vot­ers this fall if the state comes up with it’s por­tion of the costs. Last night, the school board voted to place a 7.45-mill, 28-year bond issue on the Nov. 5 bal­lot. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, it rep­re­sents match­ing …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol says sev­eral crashes on Fri­day left sev­eral peo­ple injured. Accord­ing to the High­way Patrol, Fri­day after­noon around 2:15pm 23 year old Matthew Maneval of Pio­neer was dri­ving on Ohio 15 north of County Road H when he was hit from behind by 22 year old …

Bryan woman sus­tained seri­ous injuries in an early Sun­day morn­ing crash. 23 year old Cora Gonyea of Bryan, was north­bound on U.S. 127 near County Road 17 when her vehi­cle trav­eled off the west side of the road and flipped sev­eral times. Gonyea was thrown from the vehi­cle. The High­way …