News Staff The Williams County commissioners approve the purchase of a truck for the engineer’s office for next year. The tandem axle truck is not to cost more than $127,910. The request for the purchase was made at the end of last month. The commissioners also gave approval of a request for the Williams County Farmers Market … Read more
The Defiance County commissioners discuss possibilities for a grant to improve inclusion for all, as well as a possible issue with the upcoming Hot Air Balloon Festival. They met with the County Board of Developmental Disabilities to discuss plans for a grant. They would like to incorporate ways to make community events more inclusive, including … Read more
The Bryan City Council may have some expensive decisions to make in the next few years as several pieces of fire equipment are aging out. Fire Chief Doug Pool provided council with his 2023 report. He showed a list of all apparatus used by the fire department, with several of them listed as 30 years … Read more
Attorney General, Dave Yost tells the Ohio Supreme Court…that rushing a lawsuit, filed against him by a coalition of civil rights organizations, seeking to place a package of voter protections on the November ballot is unjustified. In a court filing, Yost said the July 3 cutoff for the “Ohio Voters Bill of Rights” to make … Read more
The changes railroads announced after last year’s fiery crash in East Palestine, haven’t yet made a major difference, statistics show, and reforms have stalled in Congress. A few key measures in the latest Federal Railroad Administration statistics, including the total number of train accidents, worsened over the first 11 months of last year compared to … Read more
One person is dead…after officers detain a person of interest at a home in Grabill. Deputies are called to a Lagoon Drive residence on a report of a possible stabbing. The responders get there and soon find one adult…unconscious inside the place. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials confirm…Charles Calvert, 60, was … Read more
The Williams County commissioners approve the next step to move forward on the Alvordton sewer project. They give the okay to a services agreement with Bowser Morner…for soil boring relating to the project. Also they will allow the Williams County Engineer’s Office to sign documents to be sent to the Environmental Protection Agency, including a … Read more
Stanley J. Aronoff, a Republican who spent nearly 40 years in the Ohio Legislature, including eight as the powerful Senate president, has died. The Harvard-educated lawyer from Cincinnati was known as an artful negotiator for Republican interests at a time when Democrats controlled the Ohio House and, for part of his tenure, the governor’s office. … Read more
A speeding SUV on an icy road crashes into a car in DeKalb County, sending a teenager to the hospital. DeKalb County deputies confirm…the vehicle was on State Road 101…as it goes through the intersection at County Road 68…an SUV slides past a stop sign into the intersection, hitting the driver’s side of the car. … Read more
Local governments in Ohio can no longer regulate tobacco in their communities after the Republican Legislature overrides Gov., DeWine’s veto of a budget measure that puts regulation instead in the hands of the state. The measure, vetoed in 2022 before reappearing in the state budget, says regulating tobacco and alternative nicotine products should be up … Read more