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Job fair Saturday at Sauder

If you’re look­ing for a job, Sauder Man­u­fac­tur­ing is host­ing a job fair this Sat­ur­day. It’s from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Sauder’s loca­tions in Arch­bold and Stryker. Sauder is look­ing to fill up to 30 new posi­tions in office and man­u­fac­tur­ing at both sites. Sauder is cel­e­brat­ing its …

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Trap-shoot for charity

The Edger­ton FFA is hold­ing a can­cer fundraiser. It’s a trap-shoot con­test called Aim­ing for a Cure. It’s this Sat­ur­day at the Williams County Con­ser­va­tion Club in Mont­pe­lier. The cost is $25 per per­son and shells will be donated for shoot­ers 18 and under by the Williams County Tar­get Busters.

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Volunteers needed to widen bridge over Beaver Creek

The North­west­ern Ohio Rails-to-Trails Asso­ci­a­tion is look­ing for vol­un­teers to help work on widen­ing and re-decking the bridge over Beaver Creek. The sched­uled work day is this Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 14th from 8 am to Noon. Vol­un­teers should meet at 8 a.m. on County Road 17, south of U.S. 20A. If …

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Libraries closed for Veterans Day

A reminder that fed­eral offices are closed today, in obser­vance of Vet­er­ans Day. Williams County Libraries are also closed in Bryan, Edger­ton, Edon, Pio­neer, Stryker and West Unity. One library will remain open, the Mont­pe­lier Pub­lic Library.

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Veterans Day in Bryan

In honor of Vet­er­ans Day today, a trav­el­ing memo­r­ial is on dis­play at the Edger­ton high school gym today and through the rest of the week. The exhibit called “The Eyes of Free­dom: Lima Com­pany Memo­r­ial” hon­ors Lima’s 3rd Bat­tal­ion, 25th Marine Corps Reg­i­ment which suf­fered the high­est casu­alty rate …

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Anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Forty years ago today, The Edmund Fitzger­ald, the largest freighter on the Great Lakes, sank in hur­ri­cane force winds leav­ing Supe­rior, Wis­con­sin for Detroit. All 29 crew mem­bers died, and no one knows exactly why she went down. Six crew mem­bers were from Ohio.-0– A Williams County Wildlife Offi­cer has …

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Father found competent in Ohio toddler death case

A story that shocked the Buck­eye state… the 21 month old tod­dler whose decom­posed body was found in her crib. Now a new trial date has been set for the baby’s father, who’s just been declared com­pe­tent to stand trial. 34 year old Eric War­fel had pleaded not guilty by …

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Honor someone who’s Making A Difference

If you know of some­one who’s made a dif­fer­ence, North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Foun­da­tion is look­ing for them. They’re accept­ing nom­i­na­tions for next year’s Mak­ing A Dif­fer­ence Award, given to an indi­vid­ual, a busi­ness and orga­ni­za­tion. The cer­e­mony is in May. Nom­i­na­tion forms are online at NorthwestState.edu. They are due …

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Gas prices lower

Gas prices are as low as 2.21 a gal­lon in Bryan this morn­ing. That’s down about a nickel from last week, and down about 60 cents from a year ago. Ana­lysts at Triple A say good sup­ply should keep gas prices low for the Thanks­giv­ing travel season.

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Funeral home director faces prison

A Toledo funeral home direc­tor has lost his license and pleaded no con­test to abuse of a corpse charges. Robert Tate was found guilty yes­ter­day in Lucas County Com­mon Pleas Court. Police raided the Tate Funeral Home in May, find­ing sev­eral bod­ies that were not embalmed and severely decom­posed. His …

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