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The Williams County Sheriff’s Depart­ment is warn­ing peo­ple clean­ing up ditches and other areas this spring to be very care­ful to not come in con­tact with any plas­tic bot­tles that may be part of a meth lab. They Sher­iff says these bot­tles could pos­si­bly have a pow­der residue inside, have …

Pub­lished reports this morn­ing say that Diver­si­fied Machine in Edon is clos­ing it’s doors for good. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, employ­ees of the Edon plant were told that due to eco­nomic con­di­tions the com­pany is clos­ing the plant in Feb­ru­ary 2014. The first jobs elim­i­nated will be in July, …

The search is on at the Cen­tral Local Board of Edu­ca­tion. Ear­lier this week, the board met and announced that the inter­view­ing process has begun for can­di­dates to take over David Bagley’s spot as dis­trict super­in­ten­dent. Bagley will retire as school super­in­ten­dent this sum­mer. No one would spec­u­late on how …

A Spe­cial Meet­ing of the Board of Edu­ca­tion of the Bryan City School Dis­trict is planned for Tues­day, April 30th at the Bryan Mid­dle School Com­mons. The meet­ing will begin at 7:00 p.m., and is being sched­uled for the pur­pose of hold­ing a pub­lic dis­cus­sion relat­ing to school dis­trict facil­ity …

Solar Elec­tric Power Asso­ci­a­tion on Tues­day announced that Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties has been ranked on the association’s annual Top 10 list of Amer­i­can elec­tric util­i­ties that have added the most new solar power to their sys­tems and the most solar on a watts-per-customer basis in 2012. Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties broke …

Bryan Police made a drug arrest on Tues­day. 44 year old Johnny E. Cramer of Cherry Street in Bryan was arrested for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana and pos­ses­sion of drug para­pher­na­lia. Bryan Police say Cramer was picked up just before 5pm yes­ter­day after­noon. The offi­cial Bryan Police report doesn’t indi­cate if …

For­mer Bryan City Coun­cil Pres­i­dent Mark Kelly was among those indicted Tues­day by a Williams County grand jury. Kelly was charged with felony theft. Accord­ing to the indict­ment, Kelly is accused of steal­ing money from the soci­ety from Novem­ber of 2009, to last August. Ini­tial indi­ca­tions place the amount of …

Three oper­a­tors of a for­mer area grain ele­va­tor were indicted by a Ful­ton County Grand Jury yes­ter­day. Accord­ing to a release by The Ful­ton County Prosecutor’s Office, 55 year old William Fricke of Wauseon, 60 year old Steven Brink of Arch­bold and 36 year old Todd Gerig of West Unity, …

Thun­der­storms rolling through our area on Tues­day left some peo­ple in the dark. Accord­ing to Toledo Edi­son, some elec­tri­cal cus­tomers in the city of Defi­ance along with Adams Town­ship in Defi­ance County and some cus­tomers in Wash­ing­ton Town­ship in Henry County had power dis­rupted yes­ter­day morn­ing. In Ful­ton County, some …

A three vehi­cle crash in Sher­wood Mon­day morn­ing. The Ohio State High­way Patrol at Defi­ance says a man named Joe Plum­mer was dri­ving a Dodge pickup east on Ohio 18 at 7:20 a.m. as 47 year old Fred Kreiner of Wauseon was dri­ving a Ford F-350 south on U.S. 127, …