News

An arrest has been made in con­nec­tion with an armed rob­bery last week in Pauld­ing. 26-year-old John Gos­nell is now charged with armed rob­bery of the Mara­mont gas sta­tion on North Williams Street Sat­ur­day. The rob­ber was described as a white male in his 20s who had a hand­gun. He …

Williams County Sher­iffs deputies inves­ti­gated a week­end acci­dent. 31-year-old Con­rad Siebe­naler of Pio­neer was west­bound on US 20 just east of County Road 18 when he trav­eled off the right side of the road. His Chrysler hit a ditch and a mail­box. Siebe­naler was arrested and charged with oper­at­ing a …

A reminder to dri­vers. Last week mul­ti­ple deer strikes were reported just at sun­set, when deer are set­ting out to look for food. With the time change, it’s a good idea to watch out for them while still get­ting used to an ear­lier sunset.

A crash Sat­ur­day morn­ing took the life of a Napoleon woman. Sarah Lead­ers was dri­ving four oth­ers when she went off the left side of County Road X and rolled over. Sev­eral pas­sen­gers were ejected. Lead­ers was pro­nounced dead at the scene. The other four were taken to area hospitals.

The Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers will con­sider a request to annex about 10 acres of land from Pulaski Town­ship to the city of Bryan. They’ve set the meet­ing for Jan­u­ary 7th at 11 a.m. Local attor­ney Ryan Thomp­son has filed a rezon­ing request on behalf of two prop­erty own­ers on County …

The Williams County Health Depart­ment is mak­ing plans now to assess county resident’s health. In part­ner­ship with county med­ical, edu­ca­tional, reli­gious and well­ness groups, they’ll gather details to deter­mine the health needs of the area. Begin­ning in Jan­u­ary, Williams County adult res­i­dents will receive a health-related ques­tion­naire in the mail. …

A school con­struc­tion update this morn­ing. The district’s new 6th to 12th grade school build­ing is on sched­ule and should be done in July next sum­mer. Accord­ing to Super­in­ten­dent Diana Sav­age. Right now, work­ers are in the process of get­ting ready to work through the win­ter. Con­crete work­ers will be …

A woman who vol­un­teered count­less hours to the Humane Soci­ety and was on the board of direc­tors has bequeathed $1.3 mil­lion dol­lars to the Bryan Area Foun­da­tion. The money will go to the Williams County Humane Scoei­thy, the Pub­lic Library’s geneal­ogy depart­ment, and finally cre­ate a music schol­ar­ship for a …

A local man con­victed of child sex­ual abuse was sen­tenced to a long prison term in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Tony Camp­bell, 45, Hicksville, was given a 14-year term by Judge Joseph Schmenk on charges of rape, a first-degree felony; and attempted rape, a second-degree felony. He faced life …

An Angola man on pro­ba­tion after a felony con­vic­tion over four years ago is now fac­ing gun charges after a home visit found weapons. 24-year-old Mark Scot John­son is fac­ing a charge of Unlaw­ful Pos­ses­sion of a Firearm. His pro­ba­tion report­edly found a .22 long rifle, six air rifles, bows …