A Wauseon woman was sen­tenced to 3 years of com­mu­nity con­trol and ordered to pay just under $8300 in resti­tu­tion to the Wauseon Schools after being sen­tenced yes­ter­day in the Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court. 38 year old Angela Spadafore pre­vi­ously pled guilty to Theft in office. It was dis­cov­ered …

Michael L. Krill, age 51, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 7:06 A.M., 0n Monday, April 13, 2015, shortly after admittance to Fulton County Health Center in Wauseon, Ohio, after becoming suddenly ill at work. Mr. Krill was a graduate of Four County Joint Vocational School and Montpelier High School in …

Rachel L. “Becky” Keller, age 93, of Edon, Ohio, died at 4:00 P.M. on Monday, April 13, 2015, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center, where she was a patient. Mrs. Keller was a licensed practical nurse and was one of the original nurses employed by Williams County General Hospital in Montpelier, Ohio, …

Virginia Louise Mayer, age 92, of Elkhart, Indiana, passed away peacefully on Friday, April 10, 2015, at the Center for Hospice-Elkhart Hospice House. Mrs. Mayer had been a self-employed instructor at the Virginia Mayer Secretarial School for over 40 years. She was a lifelong learner and enjoyed reading, studying and …

William “Bill” G. Summers, 88, of Montpelier passed away Tuesday morning at his home.  He was born on July 31, 1926 in Montpelier to Warren H. and Martha L. (Gorman) Summers.  Bill graduated from Montpelier High School in 1944.  He proudly served his country in the United States Army during World War II. …

Jew­ell Town­ship and South Rich­land fire­fight­ers were called to a woods and grass fire north of Defi­ance, at 8:44 a.m. Mon­day. The Cres­cent News reports that the fire spread from a burn bar­rel due to high winds at the res­i­dence of Harold Stef­fel. The National Weather Ser­vice reported that the …

Accord­ing to infor­ma­tion released on Tues­day by the Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources, hunters in our state donated more than 1,000 white-tailed deer to local food banks to ben­e­fit Ohioans in need dur­ing the 2014–15 hunt­ing sea­son. Food banks received approx­i­mately 50,850 pounds of veni­son and 203,400 meals for needy …

The Ful­ton County Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict is now tak­ing orders for its annual fish fin­ger­ling dis­tri­b­u­tion pro­gram for stock­ing ponds. The dead­line to order is May 8, with pick-up held May 12 at the Ful­ton County Fair­grounds. Pur­chasers will be noti­fied of their pick-up times after all orders …

Bryan res­i­dents are invited to join Bryan City Schools to cel­e­brate the start of con­struc­tion on the new middle/high school. The project is the begin­ning phase of a mas­ter plan that will unite all 2,000 stu­dents, from preschool through grade 12, on one cam­pus for the first time in the …

Rossanna T. O’Day, age 64, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 6:05 A.M on Monday, April 13, 2015, in her home after an extended illness. Ms. O’Day was a longtime employee of McDonald’s in Bryan and most recently of the Bryan Pizza Hut. An avid country music fan, she especially liked …