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An agree­ment has been reached between the Defi­ance City Board of Edu­ca­tion and Defi­ance prop­erty own­ers Talmer and San­dra Hill­man con­cern­ing land just south of the Defi­ance High School cam­pus. Dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing held yes­ter­day, a res­o­lu­tion was approved that autho­rizes a set­tle­ment of $265,000 for 4.2 acres at …

2 arrests by Williams County Sher­iffs Deputies on Sunday.….48 year old Brian Cor­mack of Delta was arrested at 1:30am Sun­day for OVI and no turn sig­nal. Cor­mack was released to a friend. In a sep­a­rate inci­dent, 57 year old Ran­dall Gor­don of Hicksville was also arrested for OVI and no …

A two-vehicle crash Fri­day morn­ing on West High Street in Bryan took the life of an Indi­ana man. 69 year old Joseph New­man of Hamil­ton Lake, was east­bound on West High Street when he was rear-ended by Paul Brown near the inter­sec­tion of Avenue A. Bryan Police say both Newman’s …

The shoot­ings in Chat­tanooga, Ten­nessee have hit home here in our area. Pauld­ing High School grad­u­ate Ran­dal Smith, a logis­tics spe­cial­ist in the US Navy, died over the week­end after he and four Marines were shot at a recruit­ing cen­ter in Chat­tanooga last Thurs­day. Smith suc­cumbed to his wounds at …

Two juve­niles who police say jumped from a mov­ing vehi­cle on State Route 120 Sun­day morn­ing, were flown to an area hos­pi­tal for treat­ment of their injuries. It hap­pened just before 7 yes­ter­day morn­ing, when the two were found lying in the road with seri­ous injuries. The Samar­i­tan Heli­copter was …

Van­dals have been active this week in Williams County. Police say at least 10 Williams County res­i­dents have dis­cov­ered over the past sev­eral days, that their mail­boxes have been tar­geted. Three such instances were reported Wednes­day morn­ing out­side of Bryan, Stryker and West Unity. The Bryan Times reports that on …

An Arch­bold man is headed to prison for two years after plead­ing guilty to steal­ing $37,500 from an elderly Bryan widow over a five-year period. 27 year old Keith Pedigo could have had as long as a three-year sen­tence for third degree theft from an elderly per­son. IN addi­tion to …

Two men from Indi­ana were hurt in a Wednes­day after­noon crash that hap­pened in Defi­ance County. The dri­ver, 18 year old Christo­pher McBride of Hunt­ing­ton, Indi­ana, was taken to ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal. A pas­sen­ger in the vehi­cle, 19 year old Aaron Franks, also of Hunt­ing­ton, was flown to Parkview …

Van­dal­ism has hit Bryan! Bryan Police say sev­eral vehi­cles in the city were van­dal­ized by some­one who used spray paint. It hap­pened on Tues­day night, and for­tu­nately for the vehi­cle own­ers, the paint was appar­ently water based, so it seems to be wash­ing right off. Bryan Police have launched a …

Margaret Ann Gerken, age 80, of Archbold, passed away Wednesday morning, July 15, 2015 at Evergreen Manor in Montpelier. She had worked at Strydel in Stryker, and then for Sauder Woodworking in Archbold, where she retired after 20 years. Margaret was born in Napoleon on May 12, 1935, the daughter …