News Staff Word comes…U.S. railroads were warned to take certain cars out of service Thursday after Norfolk Southern discovered loose wheels on a car involved in last weekend’s derailment in Ohio. It’s not clear that the loose wheels caused the derailment near Springfield last Saturday because the National Transportation Safety Board has just begun investigating.
A Montpelier man dies in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of county roads G and 12. The Defiance Post of the patrol reports…William Goddard, 86, was driving north on County Road 12 when he failed to yield at a stop sign at County Road G. Neil McGill, 38, of Bryan, was driving west on … Read more
A Defiance resident is displaced after a structure fire at a home on Ottawa Ave. When firefighters arrived, the resident, Joshua Henry, said that he was the only person in the building and he was uninjured. Henry told firefighters that he woke up to the smell of smoke and was able to get out. As … Read more
The Bryan Police Department and the Williams County Sheriff’s Office continued to combat drug abuse in the county in 2022. Bryan’s police chief delivered his 2022 review of the police department operations this week. He pointed out Williams County accounted for nearly 25% of the cases handled through the Multi Area Narcotics Unit last year. … Read more
A Butler woman dies…after crashing, head-on, into a big rig, just east of Kendallville. Officials tell reporters… Chantel Wells, 30, was on U.S. 6…when she drove into the path of the oncoming semi. The collision causes Wells’ vehicle to roll into a ditch…she was ejected. The semi also jack-knifed into the ditch. Wells was pronounced … Read more
Amid a federal corruption case, a company that owns nuclear plants in Pennsylvania and northern Ohio will be sold for more than $3.4 billion dollars to an Irving, Texas-based firm. Ohio-based Energy Harbor will become part of a newly formed Vistra subsidiary. Energy Harbor is at the center of an alleged $60 million dollar bribery … Read more
Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers and Parkview Health are teaming up. CHWC has three facilities in Williams and Fulton counties…a hospital in Bryan and Montpelier…and a medical center in Archbold. Those will all become affiliates with Parkview Health, based in Fort Wayne. Among Parkview’s many locations is a medical group located across the street from … Read more
The City of Bryan is doing well, Mayor Carrie Schlade said during her State of the City Address Monday night, but a little growth would be nice. Part of that was on display earlier in the meeting, when council passed, under suspension of the rules requiring three readings, two resolutions for Community Reinvestment Area tax … Read more
The Williams County Election Board approves continuing education for the elections director and deputy director after reorganizing during Monday’s meeting. Prior to that vote, the board held its reorganization meeting, selecting Paul Duggan, a Democrat, as chairman of the board for the next two years. Several counties in the state have gone through the training, … Read more
A Toledo man enters a plea in a Henry County courtroom to a rape charge. Joseph Soto, 33, pleaded guilty to the charges. A pre-sentence investigation was ordered and his bond was continued. Sentencing was scheduled for April 12. He is held in the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio. A county grand jury indictment returned … Read more