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Offi­cials say they expect to release the offi­cial cause of a Wednes­day evening fire near Wauseon some­time today. Fire­fight­ers from four depart­ments were called out Wednes­day evening just before 7 to a house fire on Ful­ton County Road 15. Ini­tial reports indi­cate that the fire began in the chim­ney. Dam­age …

The Williams County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (WEDCO) hopes to have its next coor­di­na­tor in place by Feb­ru­ary. The Bryan Times reports that the dead­line for appli­cants was Dec. 31st. Since then, the search com­mit­tee has reviewed the resumes and now they have nar­rowed the list down to who they feel …

Safe Ride Home on New Year’s Eve pro­vided rides for 40 peo­ple to get home safely. Although 40 peo­ple was ten less than last year, the Safe Ride Home pro­gram kept 40 poten­tially impaired dri­vers off our road­ways on New Year’s Eve, and that’s the big story. There were no …

A house in Hol­gate was gut­ted by flames Tues­day morn­ing. The Cres­cent News reports that crews from six area fire depart­ments responded in the bone chill­ing cold. The first call came in just after 10 Tues­day morn­ing, for the fire at 322 South Wil­helm Street, at a home owned by …

It’s cold out there, and lots of reports are com­ing in locally about frozen pipes. With that in mind, a few safety reminders… Experts say you should never use a torch to thaw pipes. The best way to address the prob­lem is to pre­vent it from hap­pen­ing in the first …

A major area farm­ing com­pany has bought some land in Williams County. The Bryan Times today reports that Cooper Farms has pur­chased 160 acres at the south­west cor­ner of Ohio 6 and County Road 7 in Williams County at auc­tion for $1.15 mil­lion. The site is described as mostly open …

In Angola, inves­ti­ga­tors say it was a portable heater used to thaw frozen pipes that sparked a fire Mon­day morn­ing at Jim­mer­son Lake. The fire started under a trailer, and quickly spread to the entire struc­ture, caus­ing an esti­mated $2,000 in dam­ages. Nobody was hurt. The Angola Fire Depart­ment was …

A third and final read­ing of leg­is­la­tion that would have removed pit bulls’ “vicious” label from the city code in Wauseon, was never held dur­ing Mon­day night’s coun­cil meet­ing, after it was dis­cov­ered the mea­sure hadn’t actu­ally passed on sec­ond read­ing. The over­sight, accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, was due …

In another sign of chang­ing times, The Bryan Times will soon mark the end of an era. It was announced on Tues­day, that the press room and mail room at The Bryan Times will soon be shut­ting down, and all print­ing oper­a­tions will be trans­ferred to Fort Wayne, Ind. Accord­ing …

It seems this arc­tic blast is affect­ing every­thing… Now, it is affect­ing a steak din­ner. That’s right, there will be no steak sup­per this month at the McClure United Methodist Church. The church has told us that they have can­celled the monthly baked steak sup­per, that was sched­uled for Fri­day, …