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One arrest by the Williams County Sher­iffs Dept. 28-year-old Bianca Trevino of Bryan was arrested on New Years Eve morn­ing on a felony war­rant out of North Dakota. The warrant’s orig­i­nal charges were ter­ror­iz­ing and sim­ple assault.

The Pauld­ing County Wall of Honor at the cour­t­house has a new name. Ran­dall Smith, a Pauld­ing native, died last July from injuries he received dur­ing a domes­tic ter­ror­ist attack on the Navy Oper­a­tions Sup­port Cen­ter in Chat­tanooga. His name will be placed under a new cat­e­gory: Global War on …

Par­ents of prospec­tive col­lege stu­dents can learn about Finan­cial Aid at a work­shop next Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 6th. The Defi­ance County Coun­selors Asso­ci­a­tion hosts the annual pro­gram to help par­ents and stu­dents under­stand how to apply for finan­cial aid through FAFSA… the Free Appli­ca­tion for Fed­eral Stu­dent Aid, which helps fam­i­lies …

On this New Year’s Eve, a reminder that city offices will be closed tomor­row. Trash pickup for tomor­row will be moved to Tues­day, Jan. 5.

You may see Con­ti­nen­tal Fire Department’s new fire truck on your trav­els. The new pumper cost almost a quar­ter of a mil­lion dol­lars and holds 3,000 gal­lons of water.

A crash in Cam­den, Michi­gan injured three peo­ple Tues­day. In a release yes­ter­day, Hills­dale County Sheriff’s Depart­ment said the dri­ver of a car became ill and lost con­scious­ness while on South Edon Rd. He drove off the road and flipped the car. He was sent by med­ical heli­copter to a …

The Fayette man killed in a two-vehicle crash on I-69 in Steuben County has been iden­ti­fied as 68-year-old Mar­ion Gar­ri­son. He lost con­trol Mon­day after­noon on the icy inter­state, hit a guardrail and crashed into a semi. Gar­ri­son was pro­nounced dead at the scene. He was not wear­ing a seat …

The mayor of Edon is retir­ing. Dar­lene Burkhardt has lived in the vil­lage her whole life, and is ready to relax and enjoy the fruits of her labor, over­see­ing the county for 8 years as mayor, 21 years as Flo­rence Town­ship clerk and on the Board of Elec­tions for Williams …

Williams County Sher­iffs deputies made two arrests over the week­end. 32-year-old Joshua Stall of Bryan was arrested on a Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas War­rant for fail­ure to com­ply with com­mu­nity con­trol. He was taken to the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. 52-year-old Susan Kay Pat­ten of Bryan was arrested for …

The Williams County Fair Foun­da­tion has new offi­cers elected to their posts that begin Jan­u­ary first. John McDon­ald is the new Pres­i­dent, Scott Car­oll is vice-president. Carol Knep­per stays as trea­surer and Carol Goebel remains the secretary.