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Two peo­ple, includ­ing a woman who was wanted in Steuben County, have been arrested fol­low­ing an inci­dent at the Big Turkey Lake pub­lic access site. 26-year-old Jamie Prater of Orland was found stand­ing next to a pickup truck, allegedly involved in a drug trans­ac­tion. Prater was taken into cus­tody, and …

Accord­ing to a report in the North­west Sig­nal, Arch­bold head foot­ball coach Bryan Miller is step­ping down as foot­ball coach. Miller says burnout is the rea­son why he chose to quit just 2 1/2 weeks before the start of the reg­u­lar sea­son. Miller’s announce­ment came after the Blue Streaks had …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion says it may even­tu­ally close all at-grade inter­sec­tions con­nected to U.S. 24 in Pauld­ing County. ODOT says two of those inter­sec­tions would become over­passes, but the other five would remain closed indef­i­nitely. The news came dur­ing the U.S. 24 cor­ri­dor meet­ing which was held Mon­day …

At Monday’s meet­ing of the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers, a review of exist­ing county drainage ditch peti­tions resulted in about 20 prop­erty own­ers show­ing up to talk about it. The review, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, is required by law every six years. The six-year reviews of exit­ing ditches are sep­a­rate …

Folks liv­ing in Pauld­ing could soon have some new income tax ordi­nances to deal with. Changes in the tax struc­ture were dis­cussed by Pauld­ing Vil­lage Coun­cil on Mon­day. At the meet­ing ear­lier this week, Solic­i­tor Mike Jones pre­sented coun­cil mem­bers with a 61-page sam­ple ordi­nance, which is about 40 pages …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Dept made an arrest Tues­day evening. Offi­cers took 52 year old Rod­ney Tin­gle of Mont­pe­lier into cus­tody on charges of dis­or­derly con­duct and dis­or­derly con­duct while vol­un­tar­ily intox­i­cated. No other details sur­round­ing Tingle’s arrest have been released.

The Branch County Sher­iffs Depart­ment Marine Patrol is inves­ti­gat­ing a water­craft acci­dent that hap­pened Sat­ur­day on Cold­wa­ter Lake. A girl from Napoleon was hurt in that mishap which hap­pened when the girl was thrown from a tube being pulled by a boat. Inves­ti­ga­tors say she may have struck one of …

Stryker Police Sergeant Steve Mendez was rec­og­nized Mon­day for catch­ing a pair of sus­pects in a string of break-ins. Mendez received a cer­tifi­cate of com­men­da­tion for out­stand­ing ser­vice at Monday’s coun­cil meet­ing. Sergeant Mendez said that he and Rea­gan, his K9 part­ner, assist other police agen­cies in Williams County. He …

On Mon­day after­noon, the folks who run Eagle Rock Golf Course had to deal with fig­ur­ing out just how to get a golf cart out of a pond at Car­pen­ter Road and East River Drive. Defi­ance Police say the cart was being oper­ated at a high rate of speed by …

A Pleas­ant Town­ship man entered into a plea agree­ment on Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. 25 year old Jere­miah Mathes was arrested in May on a charge related to metham­phet­a­mine. Mathes offered to plead guilty to a level 5 felony of man­u­fac­tur­ing meth. Under terms of the plea agree­ment, two …