Arlene Swartzendruber Evers, 85 of Pioneer died early Sunday morning at the Hillsdale Community Health Center in Hillsdale, Michigan. She was born March 20, 1928 in Morenci, Michigan to Clarence L. and Ethel J. (Colegrove) Swartzendruber.  Arlene graduated from Waldron High School in 1945 as valedictorian of her class. She married …

After the record break­ing cold tem­per­a­tures, shel­ters through­out the area are in need of new sup­plies. The unprece­dented cold weather brought in unprece­dented num­bers of peo­ple need­ing shel­ter and that took a toll on sup­plies that are nor­mally stocked at shel­ters. Items needed are socks, shirts, blan­kets, and pants. Ear …

The Pauld­ing County Sher­iff, as of late yes­ter­day morn­ing, can­celed the level 2 road advi­sory in that county. Sher­iff Jason Lan­ders said how­ever, that the level being lifted doesn’t mean that all of the roads are in the best con­di­tion. The sher­iff issued a state­ment say­ing there are a num­ber …

Bryan Police on Wednes­day evening, arrested 21 year old Phillip J. Bernard of Bryan on a bench war­rant from the Williams County Sheriff’s Dept. He was taken to CCNO. Also on Wednes­day, just after 10:30PM, Bryan police say they picked up 22 year old Bri­tani M. Smith of Defi­ance for …

On Thurs­day, Brian Car­lin, the Util­i­ties Direc­tor at Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties, told Board of Pub­lic Affairs mem­bers the recent win­ter storm actu­ally made some money for the city util­ity. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the city’s elec­tric usage was expected to be higher than usual because of the extreme cold. …

A Mont­pe­lier man learned his fate Thurs­day in Williams County Court. 40 year old Daniel Bignell JR will spend the next 15 years behind bars, after which he will have to reg­is­ter as a sex­ual preda­tor every 90 days for the rest of his life. Bignell was sen­tenced yes­ter­day after …

James M. Clark, 86 years, of Bryan, passed away Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at Hillside Country Living, Bryan.  Jim was born August 11, 1927 in Norwich, Connecticut, the son of the late William J. and Bertha (Hofmann) Clark.  He was a 1945 graduate of Cridersville High School.  Jim was an Army veteran serving …

The State High­way Patrol and ODOT both say that dri­vers did a pretty good job obey­ing the requests to stay off the roads after the recent win­ter storm dumped any­where from nine to 14 inches in our region and emer­gency per­son­nel issued level 3 advi­sories to keep indi­vid­u­als off the …

Flames caused a lot of dam­age to a home in Ham­ler on Mon­day evening. The Ham­ler Fire Depart­ment was called to the home of Polly Fack­ler on Henry County Road Y just before mid­night on Mon­day. Other area fire crews were also called in for assis­tance, and the fire was …

Numer­ous Defi­ance County fire depart­ments responded to a house fire west of Defi­ance on Tues­day evening. At first, the Noble Fire Depart­ment was called to the Harry But­ter­more res­i­dence on Ash­pacher Road, just before 6pm. Other area fire crews were then called in to assist. The home was reported to …