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Mildred I. Durbin, age 90, of Archbold, passed away Monday, February 2, 2015 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. Arrangements are pending at the Grisier Funeral Home in Archbold.

Last week’s raids by law enforce­ment on two tobacco shops in Williams County and a truck stop in Napoleon, has now ended up with a long list of seri­ous charges against an area man. 62 year old Michael Adams of Napoleon, the owner of all the busi­nesses that were hit, …

The Williams Met­ro­pol­i­tan Hous­ing Author­ity wait­ing list will be open at the Williams County com­mu­nity offices at 1425 E. High St., Bryan on Feb. 23 from 1–3 p.m.; on Feb. 25 from 9–11 a.m.; and on Feb. 27 from 1–3 p.m. Appli­cants must bring a piece of mail ver­i­fy­ing cur­rent …

On Mon­day, 24 year old Ste­fan R. Bates of Bryan, was arrested and taken into cus­tody by Bryan Police, on a charge of Pos­ses­sion of Heroin and Pos­ses­sion of Drug Abuse Instru­ments. Bates, it was then learned, had a felony war­rant out for his arrest through Williams County Court, and …

In Williams County, every avail­able dri­ver and truck was put into ser­vice to fight what turned out to be a record snow­fall this past week­end. County offi­cials reported, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, that all 17 avail­able county snow­plow trucks, includ­ing one that is nor­mally kept aside as a spare, …

On Sun­day, a Bryan man was arrested on a drug charge. Bryan Police picked up 20 year old Kyle Mur­ray of North Wal­nut St., Bryan, who was charged with pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana. Mur­ray was processed, and then released to appear in court at a later date. On Sat­ur­day, Bryan Police …

The trial of a Defi­ance man in con­nec­tion to the death more than thirty years ago, of an Oak­wood woman has been sched­uled. 58 year old Steven Noff­singer, of Defi­ance, will go on trial the week of April 27 in Pauld­ing County Court. Noff­singer is charged with aggra­vated mur­der in …

The Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers and Sher­iff Steve Towns have appar­ently decided not to pur­sue a part­ner­ship deal between the sheriff’s office, the state of Ohio and the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion to mon­i­tor Cor­rec­tional Cen­ter of North­west Ohio pris­on­ers doing trash pickup along county roads. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, …

Last night, the Ful­ton County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, and the Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office, had issued a Level 3 Snow Emer­gency for all three coun­ties. That means all road­ways are closed to non-emergency per­son­nel; no one should be out on the roads unless it …

Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, we have a huge prob­lem locally with drugs. In fact, it’s more than just a prob­lem… the paper is referi­ing to it as an epi­demic, accord­ing to Williams County Sher­iff Steve Towns. Metham­phet­a­mine is report­edly a huge prob­lem locally, in spite of aggre­sive actions aimed …