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The Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety will kick off the 2015 Relay for Life of Williams County on Thurs­day from 5–6:30 p.m. at the Knights of Colum­bus build­ing on Buf­falo Road, in Bryan. There will be infor­ma­tion about the relay, how to get involved, refresh­ments, enter­tain­ment and door prizes. For more infor­ma­tion, …

The MacDonald-Ruff Ice Arena opened up this week­end and is report­edly open today as well. The Bryan Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment offers ice skate rentals and cross coun­try ski rentals there. Ice skates rent for $1 per day and cross coun­try skis and snow­shoes rent for $3 per day. A …

WEDCO has a new leader. Late last week, dur­ing a meet­ing of the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers, Matt Davis was named the new exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Williams County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion. Davis was the unan­i­mous selec­tion over seven other can­di­dates, all whe were exten­sively inter­viewed by the WEDCO search com­mit­tee. …

It may be the mid­dle of win­ter, but spring is com­ing. And that means, that sum­mer won’t be far behind, and that of course, means that the Williams County Fair is once again on the sched­ule. The line-up for the 2015 Williams County Fair has now been offi­cially released and …

A Defi­ance man died in a crash near Ann Arbor, Mich., Fri­day morn­ing. Police say 45 year old Michael Ankney was either walk­ing with a bike or rid­ing a bicy­cle along the road, when he was hit by an as of yet uniden­ti­fied dri­ver. Ankney was taken by ambu­lance to …

National Pie Day rolls around a week from tomor­row, and Sauder Vil­lage wants you to enjoy that day. Among other things, the Dough­box Bak­ery offers free sam­ples of pie all day next Friday. Employ­ees at the Dough­box Bak­ery make nearly 19,000 pies annually.

The USDA’s first round of grants for soil and water con­ser­va­tion includes more money to help Lake Erie. Approx­i­mately $19 mil­lion goes towards cut­ting down on agri­cul­ture runoff that con­tributes to the lake’s algae. Offi­cials hope to reduce the phos­pho­rus com­ing from fer­til­izer and wash­ing into the rivers that flow …

Fed­eral offi­cials say 186,000 Ohioans have signed up for health cov­er­age dur­ing this enroll­ment period for the President’s health­care law. Peo­ple look­ing for cov­er­age to begin Feb. 1 must sign up today. Open enroll­ment for the fed­eral mar­ket­place ends Feb. 15. Health and Human Ser­vices says 85 per­cent of Ohioans …

Holgate’s coun­cil has accepted a bid to demol­ish the vil­lage pool. It has cho­sen Punches Exca­vat­ing for the job, and mayor Wally Sny­der says the com­pany can take its time to do it. Sny­der also says the vil­lage plans on sell­ing some of the prop­erty from the pool on the …

Snow removal has come up again at a Defi­ance city coun­cil meeting. Coun­cil­man Steve Waxler says he has received phone calls after the lat­est snow­storm ask­ing why the city plowed Pon­tiac Park and River­side Ceme­tery, but not res­i­den­tial streets. Admin­is­tra­tor Jeff Leonard says he would inves­ti­gate this, but he says …