News Staff The Village of Edgerton is awarded nearly $3 million dollars in grants that will go toward improving safety along area roadways. A project that will improve sidewalks and provide better safety for students walking or biking to school received $885,490 dollars in funds through the Transportation Alternatives Program. Also, the project received an additional $500,000 … Read more
The Williams County Board of Elections is in a good position for the August special election, officials say. In May, the Ohio House approved a special election for Aug. 8 to address a single issue, which would make it harder to amend the Ohio constitution. This decision came months after Gov., DeWine signed House Bill … Read more
Ohio’s annual free fishing days on Saturday and Sunday, June 17-18 provide all Ohio residents the chance to cast a line at hundreds of public fishing locations without the need for a license…brought to you by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife. It will be the only weekend of the year on … Read more
The Bryan Board of Public Affairs unanimously agrees to a contract with electrical line workers that runs through Oct. 31 of 2025. The agreement is between Bryan Municipal Utilities and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Line Workers No. 245. The Bryan Human Resources Director reports there were six main changes to the new agreement from … Read more
Sen. Sherrod Brown believes Ohio is the best place for the Space Command headquarters, and he’s working to bring it here. This week…he called on the Biden administration to move the U.S. Space Command headquarters to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton and to move additional Space Force units to the state. He and several … Read more
Wildfires in Canada are spreading smoke across the border into the United States, including into Williams County. While the northeastern United States is getting the brunt of the fallout, the Midwest is not escaping the effects. All of Williams County was listed as having an unhealthy Air Quality Index late Wednesday morning. By early Wednesday … Read more
Crop planting and emerging rates are faring better than average this year, but the warm, dry weather could cause problems. According to a release from the Department of Agriculture, farmers have been utilizing the dry weather to plant their crops at a faster rate than the five-year average. Corn is 95% planted throughout the state … Read more
An Angola woman is in the hospital after a three-vehicle crash near Waterloo…at the intersection of County Road 27 and U.S. 6. Officials tell reporters…49-year-old Lori Bennett was heading south on 27…when she failed to yield the right of way to 74-year-old Kent Whan, who was traveling east on 6. Whan’s vehicle hit Bennett’s…before spinning … Read more
More income tax cuts and a phased-in universal voucher program are among the hundreds of changes in a Republican-crafted proposal announced for Ohio’s nearly $86 billion dollar state budget. The two-year funding proposal already cleared the GOP-led House in April with bipartisan support, but a raucous vote on the floor hinted that a split in … Read more
Ohio Treasurer, Robert Sprague stopped in Bryan…discussing his support of a proposed change to the state constitution. Sprague, a Republican, is supporting the proposed change in the constitution that would require at least 60% approval of voters for any future change to the state document. Voters will decide on the issue during a special election … Read more