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A West Unity man was arrested Wednes­day by Bryan Police. 26 year old Daniel Gip­ple was picked up on a war­rant out of Bowl­ing Green Munic­i­pal Court. Gip­ple was also charged by Bryan Police for pos­ses­sion of drug para­pher­na­lia and abuse of harm­ful intoxicants.

Quadco is now offer­ing some­thing brand new. “The Ride,” is now being offered to peo­ple not typ­i­cally served by Quadco. The new pro­gram offers trans­porta­tion to Williams County res­i­dents in need of… well, a ride. Here’s how it works. Peo­ple sim­ply call 888–982-1011 at least 24 hours in advance for …

The Annual Antique Trac­tor Show will be held on the Williams County Fair­grounds this Fri­day, Sat­ur­day and Sun­day. This year marks the 23rd annual trac­tor show. There will be a parade start­ing at 5pm on Sat­ur­day. Also included in the line up this year is a chicken bar­be­cue Fri­day after­noon …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office reports that one per­son was injured and taken by heli­copter to an area hos­pi­tal fol­low­ing a one-car crash Wednes­day after­noon around 4pm on Ohio 191 about a quar­ter mile south of Stryker. First respon­ders were called out to the acci­dent, includ­ing Stryker Fire Depart­ment, Williams …

The Napoleon Area Board of Edu­ca­tion voted unan­i­mously on Wednes­day to approve the sec­ond of two required res­o­lu­tions to place a 2.9-mill, five-year prop­erty tax levy on the Nov. 5 bal­lot. The pro­posed levy would cost the owner of a $100,000 home an addi­tional $101 per year. It will be …

Con­ti­nen­tal assis­tant fis­cal offi­cer Shelly Coble has been moved up to full-time fis­cal offi­cer. The move came dur­ing a short Con­ti­nen­tal Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing Tues­day. For­mer fis­cal offi­cer Susan Gibbs requested the change, say­ing she needed some per­sonal time and will serve as an assis­tant to Coble. Gibbs also asked …

A recent cruise-in held by Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter fea­tured a good turnout of clas­sic cars Bill Priest, direc­tor of mar­ket­ing, said dur­ing Tuesday’s meet­ing that he was pleased with the turnout at the cruise-in. He reported that there were 26 dri­vers who reg­is­tered, and many of the peo­ple Quadco serves …

Bryan Police report the arrest of 49 year old Gre­gory Baker of Bryan. Baker was arrested for dis­or­derly con­duct on Tues­day, and was locked up in CCNO.

The Williams County Board of Elec­tions has released infor­ma­tion say­ing that the dead­line to get on the Novem­ber 5th gen­eral elec­tion bal­lot is 4 p.m. August 7th. In order to get on the bal­lot, county offi­cials say that you need to come into the office, sign for your petion, and …

Defi­ance plans on spend­ing less than $200,000 this year to resur­face city streets. Actu­ally, the city plans to use just $179,529 in cap­i­tal improve­ments fund money to resur­face parts of nine streets. A resur­fac­ing con­tract has not been autho­rized yet by city coun­cil, and some coun­cil mem­bers believe that much …