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A crash Sat­ur­day morn­ing took the life of a Napoleon woman. Sarah Lead­ers was dri­ving four oth­ers when she went off the left side of County Road X and rolled over. Sev­eral pas­sen­gers were ejected. Lead­ers was pro­nounced dead at the scene. The other four were taken to area hospitals.

The Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers will con­sider a request to annex about 10 acres of land from Pulaski Town­ship to the city of Bryan. They’ve set the meet­ing for Jan­u­ary 7th at 11 a.m. Local attor­ney Ryan Thomp­son has filed a rezon­ing request on behalf of two prop­erty own­ers on County …

The Williams County Health Depart­ment is mak­ing plans now to assess county resident’s health. In part­ner­ship with county med­ical, edu­ca­tional, reli­gious and well­ness groups, they’ll gather details to deter­mine the health needs of the area. Begin­ning in Jan­u­ary, Williams County adult res­i­dents will receive a health-related ques­tion­naire in the mail. …

A school con­struc­tion update this morn­ing. The district’s new 6th to 12th grade school build­ing is on sched­ule and should be done in July next sum­mer. Accord­ing to Super­in­ten­dent Diana Sav­age. Right now, work­ers are in the process of get­ting ready to work through the win­ter. Con­crete work­ers will be …

A woman who vol­un­teered count­less hours to the Humane Soci­ety and was on the board of direc­tors has bequeathed $1.3 mil­lion dol­lars to the Bryan Area Foun­da­tion. The money will go to the Williams County Humane Scoei­thy, the Pub­lic Library’s geneal­ogy depart­ment, and finally cre­ate a music schol­ar­ship for a …

A local man con­victed of child sex­ual abuse was sen­tenced to a long prison term in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Tony Camp­bell, 45, Hicksville, was given a 14-year term by Judge Joseph Schmenk on charges of rape, a first-degree felony; and attempted rape, a second-degree felony. He faced life …

An Angola man on pro­ba­tion after a felony con­vic­tion over four years ago is now fac­ing gun charges after a home visit found weapons. 24-year-old Mark Scot John­son is fac­ing a charge of Unlaw­ful Pos­ses­sion of a Firearm. His pro­ba­tion report­edly found a .22 long rifle, six air rifles, bows …

Sauder Man­u­fac­tur­ing is hold­ing a job fair on Sat­ur­day. The 70 year old com­pany will cel­e­brate that anniver­sary and is hop­ing to hire more for the offices and man­u­fac­tur­ing. It’s Sat­ur­day, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Take your resume.

The Ney Vil­lage Coun­cil is work­ing with the Wash­ing­ton Town­ship Trustees to deter­mine where to put a new vil­lage fire­house. Coun­cil­man Adam Coy will work on a com­mit­tee to make that deci­sion, and deter­mine how to do it. The Coun­cil is look­ing for a vil­lage res­i­dent to help out, serve …

Look­ing at the cal­en­dar this Fri­day morn­ing, the Fes­ti­val of Trees is com­ing up begin­ning Tues­day Novem­ber 17th through the 21st at Defi­ance Eagles Aerie 372. They’re hop­ing to raise $50,ooo. The fun begins at 5:30 p.m. Tues­day for the annual tree-lighting. Res­i­dents can enjoy the many activ­i­ties, includ­ing a …