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Absen­tee bal­lots for the May 5 spe­cial elec­tion in the Edon North­west School Dis­trict, Spring­field Town­ship and the Vil­lage of Stryker, are now avail­able at the Williams County Board of Elec­tions office on E. High Street in Bryan. Reg­is­tered vot­ers who wish to vote absen­tee by mail must sub­mit an …

The search was on Wednes­day evening for a 5-year-old boy who was reported miss­ing from a home on Har­ri­son Avenue in Defi­ance. He was even­tu­ally found unharmed at a local church. The boy’s mother reported the child miss­ing Wednes­day evening around 6:30. Police, Sheriff’s offi­cers, fire crews, the high­way patrol, …

This can only mean one thing… it is finally spring! We are happy to be talk­ing today about the water being turned back on at the Bard Cen­ten­nial Foun­tain on the cour­t­house square in down­town Bryan. That couldn’t have hap­pened with the cold, freez­ing weather we had just a few …

A jury trial in a civil case involv­ing alleged asbestos expo­sure at Gen­eral Motors opened Tues­day in Defi­ance County Court. Fayrene Den­nis, the wife of for­mer Gen­eral Motors employee Johnny Den­nis, who died from lung can­cer at the age of 57 back in 2003, filed the suit against GM and …

Bryan High School’s head foot­ball coach is quit­ting. Kevin Kline , who was the dri­ving force behind the two most suc­cess­ful sea­sons in Bryan his­tory and has the best win­ning per­cent­age for a Golden Bears foot­ball coach, is turn­ing in his res­ig­na­tion, say­ing that he has accepted a teach­ing posi­tion …

If you plan to visit the Williams County Cour­t­house next month, bet­ter plan also on using the stairs. The ele­va­tor in the cour­t­house will be be out of ser­vice, begin­ning on Mon­day, May 18th, for about a month for repairs. The old ele­va­tor is get­ting tired. It was installed about …

Williams County Sher­iffs deputies made an arrest on Wednes­day afternoon…29 year old Tyler WIDE-LICK was arrested on a war­rant out of Ful­ton County Munic­pal court for fail­ure to appear on a charge of OVI. No other details were given.

With a tight bud­get and an aging fleet of more than two-dozen vehi­cles, The Williams County Depart­ment of Aging now says it will seek a levy in Novem­ber. The depart­ment has some 25 vehi­cles in its fleet, includ­ing at least a half-dozen that will need to be replaced soon due …

In Napoleon, the inves­ti­ga­tion into the death of a man is con­tin­u­ing, and now, a Napoleon man has been charged in con­nec­tion with the case. 18 year old Justin Dou­ble has been charged with reck­less homi­cide, a third-degree felony, and was being held on a $100,000 bond at the Cor­rec­tions …

The Pauld­ing Vil­lage Coun­cil passed an ordi­nance at their meet­ing this week, des­ig­nat­ing cer­tain streets as no through truck routes dur­ing con­struc­tion of the sewer’s sep­a­ra­tion project on North Williams Street. The new ordi­nance says that no through truck routes will be des­ig­nated with signs to be posted at entrance …