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A com­pany from Que­bec, Canada plans to set up shop in Water­loo and cre­ate up to 85 new jobs by 2018. Techo-Bloc is a man­u­fac­turer of high-end paving stones and patio blocks. The com­pany announced on Mon­day that it plans to invest over $34 mil­lion to estab­lish its Mid­west regional …

Two were hurt in a rollover Mon­day night on I-69 near the Pok­agon (POH-KAY-GUN) State Park exit. The crash caused the north­bound side of the inter­state to be shut down for about an hour. It hap­pened just after 7:30 last night, when a Honda Accord dri­ven by 40-year-old Tim­o­thy McFellin …

A man from Jonesville, Michi­gan will have to do 180 days of an 18 month sen­tence after enter­ing a guilty plea to a felony charge of intim­i­da­tion on Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. Terry Dendy was accused of threat­en­ing to kill employ­ees of a local com­pany in a pay dis­pute …

Accord­ing to a release on Sun­day from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Depart­ment, a Hamil­ton man who had been miss­ing since last Tues­day, has been found. 32-year-old Derek Pinkham was found fol­low­ing an alert that was issued on Sat­ur­day, when author­i­ties said they believed Pinkham may have been in dan­ger because …

Another metham­phet­a­mine lab turned up over the week­end in Bryan. Bryan Police report that offi­cers were called to a home in the 200 block of East Bryan Street on Sat­ur­day after­noon after some­body noticed some­thing sus­pi­cious there. Also respond­ing were the Bryan Fire Depart­ment, along with the Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion plans to com­pletely replace the Clin­ton Street Bridge in Defi­ance with a new four-lane bridge. The project, accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, is sched­uled for 2019, and will com­pletely replace the exist­ing struc­ture with a bridge which will carry four lanes of traf­fic, includ­ing access …

The for­mer Mayor of Edger­ton, 95 year old Den­nis John­son, died Fri­day at Parkview Regional Med­ical Cen­ter in Forty Wayne. John­son served as Edgerton’s Mayor for 16 years. He was a US Navy Vet­eran of World War II and belonged to a num­ber of local civic orga­ni­za­tions, includ­ing the Edger­ton …

Bryan Police didn’t take the hol­i­day off. On Fri­day, they arrested 32 year old Jeremy Rohlof of E. But­ler St., Bryan for Dis­or­derly Con­duct. He was released. Also on Fri­day, Bryan Police took 31 year old Dustin Car­roll of Cen­ter Street in Bryan into cus­tody on charges of vio­lat­ing a …

Some 240 Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties cus­tomers will soon likely have to replace their old, obso­lete, and in many cases, dam­aged elec­tric meter bases, and make upgrades to their ser­vice to at least 200 amp ser­vice within the next year. Accord­ing to a report in the Bryan Times, the affected cus­tomers …

Kather­ine Zart­man has been named Interim Williams County Pros­e­cu­tor. Zartman’s appoint­ment comes fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of for­mer county pros­e­cu­tor Kirk Yosick, who left to take a posi­tion as gen­eral coun­cil to a pri­vate Toledo com­pany. Zart­man, who has been an assis­tant county pros­e­cu­tor since 2008, was sworn in on Thurs­day …