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In Edger­ton, the vil­lage coun­cil on Mon­day night at their reg­u­lar meet­ing, approved the pur­chase of a vehi­cle. The village’s water depart­ment had requested that coun­cil pur­chase a 2012 Ram 2500 4×4 with ser­vice body, includ­ing a ten-year war­ranty, for $27,000. That comes in at around $2,000 less than what …

Edon Vil­lage Coun­cil met Mon­day evening, and with lit­tle else on their plate last night, passed an ordi­nance adopt­ing amend­ments to the zon­ing code regard­ing height restric­tions in the com­mer­cial and busi­ness dis­trict. In other light action, coun­cil approved a res­o­lu­tion allow­ing the vil­lage to par­tic­i­pate in the Ohio Pub­lic …

A shoot­ing in Hicksville leaves one man seri­ously injured, and his mother in cus­tody. 45 year old Gus Camp was listed Mon­day night as being in “crit­i­cal” con­di­tion at Fort Wayne’s Lutheran Hos­pi­tal, after he was shot by his 71 year old mother, Mar­garet Camp at her home on Cor­nelia …

An OVI arrest over the week­end in Bryan. Bryan Police pulled 40 year old Mar­llo Jones of South Emmett Street over at 11:53pm on Sun­day. Jones was cited for OVI and then released. On Sun­day morn­ing just before 2am, 24 year old Matthew Quillen of Town­line Road was stopped by …

A Bryan woman who police arrested at the scene of two sep­a­rate drug raids in Williams County, pleaded guilty last week to charges related to pro­duc­tion of metham­phet­a­mine. 56 year old Julie Austin pleaded guilty in Williams County Court to ille­gal assem­bly or pos­ses­sion of chem­i­cals for man­u­fac­ture of drugs. …

A pro­posed Ohio bal­lot issue this fall would pos­si­bly legal­ize mar­i­juana. Sev­eral bal­lot issues are being con­sid­ered for Ohio vot­ers to decide, one of which involves the legal­iza­tion of mar­i­juana in the state. Locally, all area law enforce­ment agen­cies have come out against the pro­posed legal­iza­tion, say­ing that they all …

In West Unity, water deposits were a major topic of dis­cus­sion Thurs­day night dur­ing a meet­ing of vil­lage coun­cil. That’s because a pro­posed ordi­nance would have made land­lords respon­si­ble pay­ing the water bills for ten­ants who skip out with­out pay­ing. At the end of the night, coun­cil decided not to …

Unem­ploy­ment in the six-county region is a prob­lem, and it appears to be get­ting worse. The job­less rate here increased from Decem­ber to Jan­u­ary, accord­ing to fig­ures from the Ohio Depart­ment of Job and Fam­ily Ser­vices. In Jan­u­ary, the job­less rate in Williams County went up to 5.6 per­cent. It …

Bryan Police made an arrest in con­nec­tion with a break-in. On Thurs­day, 39 year old Joshua Budd, who listed no per­ma­nent address, was taken into cus­tody by Bryan Police, who then took him directly to CCNO, where he is being held behind bars. No fur­ther infor­ma­tion was made avail­able, includ­ing …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office found itself wrapped up in a phone scam. Some­body who went by the name “Vivian Green” has been call­ing folks lately, and iden­ti­fy­ing her­self as some­one work­ing for the Williams County Sheriff’s Office, and in those calls, this woman… Vivian Green if you will, tells …