News

A Change of Plea hear­ing is set for this after­noon in Steuben Cir­cuit Court in the case of a rural Angola man accused of an alleged sex­ual assault early on New Years Eve. 54 year old Frank Stetler is charged with felony rape, crim­i­nal con­fine­ment, intim­i­da­tion and stran­gu­la­tion. The rape …

A rob­bery in Bryan.… A man held up the offices of P & R Med­ical at 1100 East High Street on Fri­day after­noon. Bryan Police say no weapons were dis­played dur­ing the rob­bery that took place just after 2:00pm on Fri­day. The sus­pect is described as a white male in …

Eight west­ern Ohio coun­ties have been des­ig­nated as nat­ural dis­as­ter areas after months of heavy rain and flood­ing. The des­ig­na­tion, by the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture for But­ler, Darke, Defi­ance, Hamil­ton, Mer­cer, Pauld­ing, Pre­ble and Van Wert coun­ties, means farm­ers in those coun­ties can now seek fed­eral assis­tance includ­ing emer­gency …

Con­ti­nen­tal Vil­lage Coun­cil met this week, and learned of what will likely be a pretty stiff increase in health insur­ance rates for vil­lage employ­ees. Jonathan Fort­man of Fort­man Insur­ance of Ottawa, told coun­cil about a 22.4 per­cent increase in the village’s employee health insur­ance pre­mium through Med­ical Mutual Insur­ance. Cur­rently, …

If you were plan­ning to head to the library today or tomor­row, you bet­ter make alter­nate plans now. All loca­tions of the Williams County Pub­lic Library in Bryan, Edger­ton, Edon, Pio­neer, Stryker and West Unity are closed today and tomor­row for what the library says will be com­puter sys­tem upgrades. …

Lots of new stu­dents will be greeted by new and ren­o­vated build­ings when they arrive on the main Trine cam­pus in Angola for the start of classes on August 24th. School offi­cials there say enroll­ment is expected to go up for a third straight year, with an antic­i­pated 27 per­cent …

Two peo­ple, includ­ing a woman who was wanted in Steuben County, have been arrested fol­low­ing an inci­dent at the Big Turkey Lake pub­lic access site. 26-year-old Jamie Prater of Orland was found stand­ing next to a pickup truck, allegedly involved in a drug trans­ac­tion. Prater was taken into cus­tody, and …

Accord­ing to a report in the North­west Sig­nal, Arch­bold head foot­ball coach Bryan Miller is step­ping down as foot­ball coach. Miller says burnout is the rea­son why he chose to quit just 2 1/2 weeks before the start of the reg­u­lar sea­son. Miller’s announce­ment came after the Blue Streaks had …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion says it may even­tu­ally close all at-grade inter­sec­tions con­nected to U.S. 24 in Pauld­ing County. ODOT says two of those inter­sec­tions would become over­passes, but the other five would remain closed indef­i­nitely. The news came dur­ing the U.S. 24 cor­ri­dor meet­ing which was held Mon­day …

At Monday’s meet­ing of the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers, a review of exist­ing county drainage ditch peti­tions resulted in about 20 prop­erty own­ers show­ing up to talk about it. The review, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, is required by law every six years. The six-year reviews of exit­ing ditches are sep­a­rate …