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Keith Lock­hart now owns a piece of Bryan his­tory. The Bryan Times today, reports that Lock­hart sub­mit­ted the win­ning bid of $30,800 Thurs­day dur­ing an open auc­tion of the for­mer Williams County Sheriff’s Office and county jail build­ing in down­town Bryan. Lock­hart is a Mont­pe­lier con­struc­tion con­trac­tor. He actu­ally bid …

Accord­ing to a deci­sion by the Defi­ance County Board of Elec­tions, a Hicksville may­oral candidate’s Inde­pen­dent sta­tus is invalid. The board decided by a 3–1, that David Schoo­ley can­not run as an Inde­pen­dent for mayor in the Novem­ber gen­eral elec­tion due to his con­nec­tion with the Defi­ance County Demo­c­ra­tic Party. …

A Defi­ance man is now behind bars, after his arrest for tak­ing part in a Wednes­day morn­ing rob­bery at the North­towne Mall. 21 year old Kyle March is being charged with felony rob­bery. He is being held in the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio, and is sched­uled to make an …

The for­mer Williams County jail at the cor­ner of North Beech and West Bryan streets is going on the auc­tion block today. By order of the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers, the two-story, 9,027-square-foot brick for­mer jail and county sheriff’s office will be auc­tioned off to the high­est bid­der. The auc­tion is …

A Defi­ance man was in Defi­ance County Court to answer to two methamphetamine-related charges. 21 year old Schuy­lar Win­kler pleaded guilty to aggra­vated pos­ses­sion of drugs and ille­gal assem­bly or pos­ses­sion of chem­i­cals for the man­u­fac­ture of drugs, both felonies. A pre-sentence inves­ti­ga­tion was ordered and Winkler’s $500,000 cash bond …

Some Pauld­ing County roads have been closed due to high water, and many folks are busy fill­ing sand­bags to help pro­tect homes from ris­ing water. The state has closed Ohio 66 between Ohio 637 and Ohio 613 near Oak­wood as well as Ohio 500 from the Indi­ana state line to …

In But­ler, Police now say that three chil­dren were respon­si­ble for the March 26th fire which destroyed the Old But­ler Com­pany build­ing on South Broad­way. The two boys and a girl… all ages 11 and 12, appar­ently spread gas inside of the build­ing and set a cou­ple of fires. Police …

Arch­bold Vil­lage Coun­cil took steps this week, to place a replace­ment levy on the Novem­ber bal­lot. Coun­cil voted unan­i­mously to place a 3.3-mill replace­ment prop­erty tax levy on the Novem­ber bal­lot. Accord­ing to Arch­bold offi­cials, the replace­ment levy would raise an addi­tional $389,000 per year begin­ning in tax year 2016, …

A one-vehicle injury crash occurred on Ohio 637, north of Grover Hill, early Tues­day morn­ing. The Ohio High­way Patrol says it hap­pened around 2:20am yes­ter­day, when a semi-tractor trailer dri­ven by Gre­gory Burns, of Mar­ion, was south­bound on Ohio 637. The truck trav­eled off the right side of the road­way …

The Board of Direc­tors of Cameron Memo­r­ial Com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tal didn’t have to look very hard for the hospital’s new Pres­i­dent and Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer. Con­nie McC­ahill has been the Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer at Cameron for the past three years. Now, she has been appointed by the board to the Pres­i­dent …