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An Arch­bold man is headed to prison for two years after plead­ing guilty to steal­ing $37,500 from an elderly Bryan widow over a five-year period. 27 year old Keith Pedigo could have had as long as a three-year sen­tence for third degree theft from an elderly per­son. IN addi­tion to …

Two men from Indi­ana were hurt in a Wednes­day after­noon crash that hap­pened in Defi­ance County. The dri­ver, 18 year old Christo­pher McBride of Hunt­ing­ton, Indi­ana, was taken to ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal. A pas­sen­ger in the vehi­cle, 19 year old Aaron Franks, also of Hunt­ing­ton, was flown to Parkview …

Van­dal­ism has hit Bryan! Bryan Police say sev­eral vehi­cles in the city were van­dal­ized by some­one who used spray paint. It hap­pened on Tues­day night, and for­tu­nately for the vehi­cle own­ers, the paint was appar­ently water based, so it seems to be wash­ing right off. Bryan Police have launched a …

Margaret Ann Gerken, age 80, of Archbold, passed away Wednesday morning, July 15, 2015 at Evergreen Manor in Montpelier. She had worked at Strydel in Stryker, and then for Sauder Woodworking in Archbold, where she retired after 20 years. Margaret was born in Napoleon on May 12, 1935, the daughter …

The Williams County Fair Foun­da­tion Board met recently, and decided to nix the pur­chase of pic­nic tables for the fair­grounds. Pre­vi­ously, the board had agreed to spend about $2,000 for pic­nic tables at the fair­grounds. But after dis­cus­sion, a motion to pur­chase the tables, using the pro­ceeds of a recent …

State school board mem­bers on Tues­day, accused the Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion of break­ing the law by throw­ing online schools’ fail­ing grades out of a char­ter school eval­u­a­tion this year. Accord­ing to the Plain Dealer in Cleve­land, School Choice Direc­tor David Hansen was bound by law to include online school …

A Bryan man was picked up and arrested on a bench war­rant out of Napoleon Munic­i­pal Court. Yes­ter­day after­noon at 3:24PM, Bryan Police caught up with 37 year old Tony Odham of South Wal­nut Street in Bryan. Odham was taken into cus­tody, but he later posted bond and was released.

The Ohio Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency announced Wednes­day it is issu­ing Defi­ance a $393,750 low-interest loan to update the city’s blue­print for con­trol­ling com­bined sewer over­flows, an impor­tant source of phos­pho­rus that pro­duces algae in west­ern Lake Erie and its trib­u­taries. Ini­tial ben­e­fits won’t be real­ized for sev­eral years, until the …

A new chap­ter begins today in Williams County Court, when the county’s first Drug Court con­venes. Judge Stelzer will meet with the court’s team of men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als, recov­ery ser­vices staff and pro­ba­tion depart­ment per­son­nel to con­sider the first four poten­tial can­di­dates for the new ven­ture. Drug Court will now …

An Edon woman was arrested Tues­day night by Williams County Sheriff’s Deputies. 27 year old Angela Townsend was picked up on a Bryan Munic­i­pal Court bench war­rant for fail­ure to appear in court on an orig­i­nal charge of dri­ving under sus­pen­sion, improper lane change, and expired license plates. Townsend was …