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The Williams County Sheriff’s Office is warn­ing of some scams. Accord­ing to Sher­iff Steven Towns, typ­i­cal scams involve dri­ve­way seal­ing, yard work and tree trim­ming, and roof, barn or house paint­ing or repair. The sheriff’s office has already received tips on dri­ve­way scams so far this sea­son. Towns urges the …

At a spe­cial meet­ing held Tues­day evening, Edon teach­ers and the Edon North­west Board of Edu­ca­tion agreed on a one-year con­tract with no pay increase, but the agree­ment will con­tain a re-opened pay sched­ule. The two sides only had to for­mally meet in two sep­a­rate one-hour ses­sions before com­ing to …

Get set for some live musi­cal enter­tain­ment on Thurs­day evenings in Edger­ton next month. You are invited to bring a lawn chair to the Edger­ton Band­stand and enjoy the sounds of sum­mer dur­ing the month of June. On June 4th, the Delta Com­mu­nity Band will per­form. The Antwerp Com­mu­nity Band …

Last week, the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers went over the plans for an upgrade to the county’s Emer­gency Med­ical Ser­vices build­ing on Ohio 15. As it sits now, the project will come in at between $225,000 and $250,000 accord­ing to esti­mates pro­vided by the engi­neer­ing firm han­dling it all. The Bryan …

In Steuben County, police say Fri­day after­noon around 5, a con­cerned cit­i­zen brought a sus­pi­cious item into their Angola office. That item turned out to be an impro­vised explo­sive device. The Indi­ana State Police Bomb Squad was called in to dis­pose of the device, which was report­edly found along a …

Well, here’s some­thing you don’t hear about all that often… While exe­cut­ing a search war­rant late last week, mem­bers of the Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force dis­cov­ered an aggres­sive Ger­man Shep­herd… named “Nazi”, and a three foot long alli­ga­tor at a house in Defi­ance. Four peo­ple were arrested… 39 year old …

A crash Sat­ur­day night in Wauseon that left one per­son dead, is under inves­ti­ga­tion today. It hap­pened Sat­ur­day just after 8PM on Ohio 108, south of the Ohio Turn­pike, when a car appar­ently pulled out of a busi­ness dri­ve­way into the path of a big rig. Both the car and …

A dri­ver from Indi­ana was crit­i­cally injured Fri­day, when his trac­tor trailer slammed into a pick-up truck haul­ing liq­uid fer­til­izer. The crash hap­pend early Fri­day after­noon on U.S. 24 when the semi dri­ven by 75 year old Dana Cox of Indi­ana hit a tank trailer haul­ing liq­uid fer­til­izer that was …

Three arrests this week­end in Bryan, two of them involv­ing alco­hol. 22 year old Ken­neth Chap­puies of Bryan was charged wtih OVI and Open Con­tainer. He was released. 22 year old Miguel Rodriguez of Bryan was also pulled over and charged with hav­ing an open con­tainer of alco­hol, but he …

We pause during the Memorial Day holiday weekend to pay tribute to those who have paid the ultimate price for our country. In this touching video, apparently recorded at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, members of the Delta Honor Guard receive the flag-draped coffins of a soldier and his service dog.