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A vio­lent two vehi­cle crash Mon­day after­noon has left a Swan­ton man in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. The Ohio High­way Patrol reports that 34 year old Derek Molina was dri­ving east on Frank­fort Road just before 6 Mon­day evening, as 35 year old Cor­rie Nijakowski, also of Swan­ton, was dri­ving north on …

Bryan Police report a two vehi­cle acci­dent on Mon­day after­noon in Bryan. Police say 25 year old Brit­tany Payne of Michi­gan, and 30 year old Tiffany M. Bauer Bryan were both east­bound on High Street. Accord­ing to the police report, Bauer stopped for traf­fic at Buf­falo Road. That’s when Payne’s …

A new fire truck might be on the way for Pio­neer Vil­lage. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, dis­cus­sion of mak­ing a pur­chase before the August dead­line for the upcom­ing levy was post­poned until Pio­neer vil­lage council’s next meet­ing, but coun­cil is begin­ning to look into pric­ing. Bor­row­ing from the village’s …

Pauld­ing County Sher­iff Jason Lan­ders says he plans to hold a series of town hall meet­ings over the next few weeks through­out the county to seek the publics input in regards to plac­ing a jail oper­at­ing levy on the Novem­ber bal­lot. The meet­ings will take place at all eight fire …

A ded­i­ca­tion cer­e­mony at Four County Career Cen­ter, includ­ing an open house for res­i­dents of Williams, Defi­ance, Ful­ton, and Henry coun­ties is planned for Aug. 21st, when vis­i­tors will have their first chance to view the work. A $4 mil­lion project, begin­ning in 2012, involved three phases. Ini­tially, a new …

A Bryan man who was one of four per­sons arrested on metham­phet­a­mine related charges in drug bust back in April at a home near Hamil­ton entered into a plea agree­ment on Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. 34-year-old Joseph Cotrell pled guilty to a felony charge of aid­ing in the man­u­fac­ture …

Shirley Ann Graf (Wolf), 78, of Wauseon, Ohio left our world to be with the Lord Saturday July 12, 2014 at the Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center in Defiance, Ohio. She passed peacefully in the night after a short, courageous battle with cancer. On April 3, 1936, God sent an …

In West Unity, the sewer rates were dis­cussed at last Thursday’s coun­cil meet­ing. An audit that was done recently for 2012–13, showed a deficit spend­ing for the village’s sewer plant oper­a­tion, and coun­cil learned last week that cur­rent sewer rate income will not meet loan oblig­a­tions. Good news for the …

A new health tech­nol­ogy sys­tem will be avail­able in Williams, Ful­ton, Defi­ance and Van Wert coun­ties begin­ning tomor­row. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, Parkview Physi­cians Group will begin to use “MyChart,” a secure and con­fi­den­tial web-based tool that allows patients to com­mu­ni­cate with their doctor’s offices and access many of …

The State High­way Patrols says a woman was seri­ously injured last Thurs­day evening in a three-vehicle crash in San­dusky County. Troop­ers say it hap­pened when a car dri­ven by 52 year old Teresa Miller of Defi­ance, head­ing east­bound on U.S. 6, attempted to pass a semi. A west­bound semi was …