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John F. Keller, age 81, of Hicksville, Ohio, passed away on Sunday, September 6, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance. John had worked in quality control at Bohn Aluminum in Angola, Indiana for over 30 years prior to his retirement. John F. Keller was born April 17, …

A man from Angola is in some seri­ous trou­ble, and fac­ing felony charges, after police say he knocked another man uncon­scious by whack­ing him in the head. It hap­pened early Sun­day morn­ing, when 23 year old Sean Gieger claims that the other guy broke into the home he was rent­ing …

A cou­ple of arrests to report on today in Bryan. Bryan Police say they arrested 39 year old Rebecca McCue of South Main Street in Bryan on Tues­day, and charged her with shoplift­ing. She was then released. Also yes­ter­day, Bryan Police col­lared 32 year old James Huff of Indi­ana, who …

Here it comes! The Williams County Fair kicks off this Sat­ur­day and runs through the fol­low­ing Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 19 in Mont­pe­lier. Admis­sion is $5 for adults.… kids 12 and younger get in for free. Adult sea­son passes are $20 and stu­dent passes are just $10. Ris­ing coun­try star Austin Webb …

Bryan City Coun­cil held their reg­u­larly sched­uled meet­ing on Tues­day, at which they dis­cussed needed improve­ments to the san­i­tary and storm sew­ers in the city. The Bryan Times reports that work will include new san­i­tary sys­tems and storm sewer improve­ments on sev­eral streets, along with upsiz­ing of the storm sewer …

Bryan Police had a busy Labor Day week­end. On Fri­day after­noon, they arrested 20 year old Tar­rence C. Grandey of Palmer Lane, Bryan, and charged him with Theft-Shoplifting. He was released. Then on Sat­ur­day evening, Bryan Police took 26 year old Haley Win­kler of North Union Street into cus­tody on …

A man wanted by the Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment as a non-compliant sex offender was nabbed arly Sat­ur­day morn­ing in Cold­wa­ter. 33-year-old Ronald Eugene Giles of Florida was picked up only a few hours after the Sheriff’s Depart­ment posted infor­ma­tion about Giles on their Face­book page. It was a tip …

A fire at a house trailer on South 465 West early Sun­day morn­ing is under inves­ti­ga­tion. The first call came in around 3:25AM, and by the time fire­fight­ers got there, it only took them min­utes to con­tain it, as a neigh­bor had already man­aged to douse most of the flames …

The Ohio Asso­ci­a­tion of Food­banks has been awarded a fed­eral Nav­i­ga­tor grant by the Cen­ters for Medicare and Med­ic­aid Ser­vices, mark­ing the third con­sec­u­tive year the grant has been awarded to the CMS. The $2 mil­lion grant will allow them to pro­vide Nav­i­ga­tor ser­vices through­out Ohio, edu­cat­ing con­sumers about afford­able …

Bids will be opened this week in Defi­ance for a side­walk repair pro­gram. 32 sec­tions of side­walk in the city will be repaired at an esti­mated cost of right around $26,000. It’s already been bud­geted for, with the city set­ting aside $30,000 for the work in the 2015 cap­i­tal improve­ments …