Some good financial news for Williams County… The county’s income from interest from investments for the first nine months of 2015 is up about $9,000 over the same period last year. The Bryan Times reports that total interest revenue through Sept. 30 of this year is $98,697. It was $89,620 …
Read More »Resignation At Williams Board Of Developmental Disabilities
There has been a resignation from the Williams County Board of Developmental Disabilities, and it becomes effective at the end of the year. 10-year board member Dorothy McKinney cited family reasons for stepping down. The Bryan Times reports today that Superintendent Deb Guilford informed the board that she has a …
Read More »Pleasant Lake Man Headed To Prison On Sex Charges
A Pleasant Lake man will spend the next eight years of a 12 year sentence in prison after he was sentenced on Monday in Steuben Circuit Court. 46 year old Charles Grime pleaded guilty to a felony charge of Sexual Misconduct with a Minor back in June. In exchange for …
Read More »Sentence Reduction Denied
In DeKalb County, Circuit Court Judge Kirk Carpenter has denied a petition from a convicted murderer who had been seeking a modification of his 50 year prison sentence. Judge Carpenter issued his ruling late last week in the case of Thomas Sexton, who pleaded guilty in 1996 to murdering a …
Read More »Montana Man Sentenced In Steuben Court
A man from Montana was sentenced to six years of a eight year prison sentence on Monday in Steuben Superior Court. The sentence for James Richter came after he entered a guilty plea almost a year ago to felony charges related to the dealing of methamphetamine. Richter will serve his …
Read More »New Hog Farm Holds Open House
On Friday, Cooper Farms held an open house at its new Sandy Ridge Gilt Farm in Cecil. The 179-acre farm will house approximately 1,600 young female pigs beginning in December, where they will remain for about 16–17 weeks, or until they reach about 200 pounds. They will then be moved …
Read More »Homeless Man Jailed On Drug Charges In Bryan
Bryan Police say that on Friday evening, at 9:50 PM, 32 year old Joshua James Wolf, who is described as being homeless, was arrested on a Felony Warrant out of Hillsdale Michigan. The original charge was Manufacturing methamphetamine/Ecstasy and Operating a Laboratory involving Methamphetamine and Possession of Methamphetamine. Wolf was …
Read More »Williams Sheriff Cleared
According to a news release from The Williams County Prosecutors Office, County Prosecutor Katherine Zartman has received confirmation that Sheriff Steve Towns has been cleared of any possible charges in connection with the Bryan School Board investigations. Ohio BCI, in conjunction with the Ohio Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Section, concluded …
Read More »Audit Looks Good For CCNO
A recent audit of the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio will result in no findings and no recommendations. That news came during Wednesday’s meeting of the CCNO financial overview committee. CCNO Executive Director Jim Dennis said an independent CPA firm out of Toledo just completedCCNO’s fiscal audit as required by …
Read More »Tiles For Cancer Offered At Game Tonight
In an effort to bring awareness to breast cancer, Defiance High School art students of Melanie Wilson and Mandy Keck have banded together to produce “Hope” tiles which will be sold this evening at the high school football game at Fred J. Brown Stadium. The tiles will be sold by …
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