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The United Way of Williams County handed out awards for Cam­paign 2014…first place in indus­trial one was Span­gler Candy Company.…first place in Indus­trial 2 was ITW/Tomco..and in Indus­trial 3 it was Daavlin-rhymes with TRAVELIN.…first place in the com­mer­cial sec­tor was Bryan Ford Lincoln.…in the govt/schools/libraries sec­tor first place went to …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol..in con­junc­tion with Defi­ance City Police and the Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office announced this morn­ing that an OVI check­point will be held tonight from 9pm-2am on Clin­ton Street..near Ara­bella Avenue in the city of Defiance.The OVI checkpoint..funded by fed­eral grant funds…is planned to deter and inter­cept …

The jobs report for Williams County is look­ing bright. In fact, the unem­ploy­ment rate fell in every Ohio county in April, includ­ing here in Williams County, where it dropped one full per­cent­age point, to 4.1 per­cent, its low­est level since May 2001. Accord­ing to the num­bers released on Thurs­day, Williams …

An arrest in Bryan for OVI… Bryan Police stopped 36 year old Damien McCul­lough of South Wal­nut Street on Thurs­day morn­ing around 10am, and charged him with OVI. McCul­lough was released. Bryan Police have not released any details sur­round­ing the arrest of McCul­lough, such as just where he was pulled …

The Relay for Life of Pauld­ing County is being held at the Pauld­ing County Fair­grounds today and Sat­ur­day. It’s a major fundraiser for the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety, with all the pro­ceeds going toward patient assis­tance and can­cer research. This year, a car show, along with a lot of activ­i­ties for …

The city of Toledo has announced it’s inten­tion to with­draw from the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio, due to it’s objec­tions to recent amend­ments to the CCNO bylaws that Toledo claims would put an addi­tional finan­cial bur­den on the city. The Bryan Times reports that CCNO was informed by a …

A woman was arrested in Oak­wood fol­low­ing the exe­cu­tion of a search war­rant there on Tues­day night. It all involved a sus­pected meth lab at a home on Road 191 in Oak­wood. 27 year old Jes­sica Beane was the only one home when the raid was car­ried out. She’s now …

A crash Tues­day after­noon in Williams County leaves a man dead, and a woman with seri­ous injuries. It hap­pened right around 5 yes­ter­day after­noon at the inter­sec­tion of County Road 15.D and U.S. 127, when the man, in a Pon­tiac Vibe was struck by an east­bound Dodge Durango. The Pon­tiac …

Bryan Police nabbed a man on a bench war­rant. 27 year old Justin Phipps of Cecil was arrested, but we have no infor­ma­tion from Bryan Police on just what that war­rant was for, or from where it was issued. We do know that Phipps was taken to CCNO, but no …

At their monthly board meet­ing on Tues­day, Quadco board mem­bers learned more about changes that are being made to the way ser­vices are to be pro­vided to indi­vid­u­als with devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties who also receive sup­port from Med­ic­aid. The board mem­bers watched por­tions of a video webi­nar about a tran­si­tion plan …