News

News from Mont­pe­lier yes­ter­day. The Coun­cil for the vil­lage met in exec­u­tive ses­sion and announced the res­ig­na­tion and retire­ment of Vil­lage Man­ager, Pam Lucas. Her retire­ment is effec­tive July 24.

Big changes are com­ing to Toledo, where Fiat Chrysler announced yes­ter­day that Chero­kee is leav­ing and pro­duc­tion of a Jeep Pick up truck will replace it. Employ­ment is expected to remain the same. This comes after Jeep’s Wran­gler shat­tered all pre­vi­ous sales records last year. The new Jeep pick up …

The Defi­ance County Board of Elec­tions said good­bye to Joanna Diehl, who stepped down from her posi­tion on Decem­ber 31st. The 81-year-old Demo­c­rat fin­ished her sec­ond 4-year term. Pre­vi­ously, she served for seven years as the direc­tor of the county’s board of elec­tions office in the 1980s, and at one …

Two Bryan men were sworn in to be mem­bers of the Williams County Regional Air­port Author­ity Board yes­ter­day. Aaron Her­man and Bert Blalock took the oath of office, admin­is­tered by County Com­mis­sion Pres­i­dent Brian Davis. The air­port board is work­ing on get­ting more fund­ing to con­tinue their recent expan­sion. The …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office is cred­it­ing state grants with help­ing reduce traf­fic fatal­i­ties and alcohol-related crashes in the county. Accord­ing to the lat­est sta­tis­tics, both were down by more than half in the last quar­ter of last year. Sher­iff Steve Towns says the grants help pay over­time for deputies …

In last Wednesday’s Power­ball, two tick­ets sold in Ohio that hit five of the num­bers and each are worth one mil­lion dol­lars. The tick­ets were sold in Goshen and Mil­ford. It’s impor­tant to check your tick­ets because you could have won other amounts!

Check­ing gas prices as we get back to work on a Mon­day, it’s now $1.79 for a gal­lon of reg­u­lar unleaded. You can find it at the Marathon or Cir­cle K on South Main in Bryan, the Valero on S. Union and the Shell on East High Street. Ana­lysts are …

Defi­ance City Hall of Fame needs more faces. Nom­i­na­tions are being accepted now to honor com­mu­nity mem­bers who make a sig­nif­i­cant impact in their cho­sen field and enhance life in Defi­ance. Nom­i­na­tions forms are avail­abe at the Defi­ance Pub­lic Library, City Hall, the Cresent-News busi­ness office and the Andrew L. …

An Arch­bold man was sen­tenced to prison Fri­day after­noon in Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court for the death of Joshua McJil­ton. The judge sen­tenced 39-year-old Romualdo Cor­doba, Jr. to 14 years for the shoot­ing death last April. The vic­tim was killed when Cor­doba approached his wife’s vehi­cle behind a Wauseon …

A new win­ery is set to open in Napoleon on Sat­ur­day. The Fla­trock Win­ery and Mead­ery will hold its grand open­ing at the loca­tion at 127 West Wash­ing­ton St. begin­ning at 3 p.m., till 11 p.m. There are three sit­ting rooms, board games and the win­ery will offer sake, mead …