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A mas­sive recall of some local meat prod­ucts… Jacob’s Qual­ity Meats, of Defi­ance has issued a vol­un­tary recall of some 430 pounds of shred­ded beef because it was pro­duced with­out inspec­tion and mis­branded. Also included in the recall is approx­i­mately 45 pounds of sand­wich spread, poten­tially labeled as ham salad. …

The Bryan Times today, is report­ing that long­time Bryan Fire Chief Merit Wal­lace Smith of Bryan, died Thurs­day at Bryan Care and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion. He led the depart­ment from 1964 until his retire­ment in 1979 and was a fire­fighter for 36 years, begin­ning that long career with the Fayette Fire Depart­ment …

Williams County now has a new pros­e­cu­tor. Ear­lier this week, the Williams County Repub­li­can Party Cen­tral Com­mit­tee voted unan­i­mously to put 32 year old Kather­ine Zart­man in the posi­tion on a full-time basis. Zart­man has served as county assis­tant pros­e­cu­tor since 2008, and has served as interim pros­e­cu­tor since the …

In Syl­va­nia, the “Slave Trail Free­dom Walk” is set to be held on Aug. 14 begin­ning at 6PM, begin­ning at the Lath­rop House on Main Street, and con­clud­ing on the cam­pus of Flower Hos­pi­tal. The pur­pose of the walk is to edu­cate peo­ple to what orga­niz­ers say is the fact …

Clas­sic vehi­cles will be gath­er­ing at the Stryker school park­ing lot at the end of the month for an annual sum­mer cruise-in for the com­mu­nity. This will be the third year that Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter has hosted the show in down­town Stryker. The cruise-in is sched­uled for Fri­day, July 31, …

At it’s meet­ing this week, the Pauld­ing Exempted Vil­lage Board of Edu­ca­tion hon­ored Navy Petty Offi­cer 2nd Class Ran­dall Smith, a 2007 Pauld­ing grad­u­ate, who was killed in the shoot­ings in Chat­tanooga, Ten­nessee last Thurs­day, with a moment of silence and a pre­pared state­ment. School board pres­i­dent Jim Foltz led …

A Williams County grand jury met Wednes­day and returned indict­ments against nine peo­ple, includ­ing a Michi­gan man who is now fac­ing charges of aggra­vated vehic­u­lar assault, and OVI endan­ger­ing chil­dren. 37 year old Fiden­cio Monroy-Villeda is alleged to have caused seri­ous phys­i­cal harm to a woman when he crashed a …

His­tory was made this past week as two Mont­pe­lier women became the first same-sex cou­ple to be legally mar­ried in Williams County. April and Kee­ley Robarge, who are 23 and 28 years old, and have spent the last three years together, are now start­ing a new chap­ter of their life …

Well, here’s some good news for folks liv­ing in Bryan. The Bryan Times today reports that, accord­ing to a Utah based home secu­rity sys­tems com­pany… Safe­wise, Bryan is the safest city in Ohio. The rank­ing comes fol­low­ing a report that shows that Bryan only had one reported vio­lent crime, and …

Ohio Gov­er­nor John Kasich offi­cially announced his pres­i­den­tial run Tues­day. In an speech at Ohio State Uni­ver­sity that described the woes of Amer­i­cans wor­ried about lost jobs, health care costs and crush­ing stu­dent debt, Kasich also tried to strike an opti­mistic note. High­light­ing his expe­ri­ence work­ing with for­mer Pres­i­dent Ronald …