SAuder Vil­lage is open­ing for the 2015 sea­son on Tues­day, April 28. New this year guests will be able to enjoy sweet treats at Stella Leona Choco­lates & Cof­fees at Sauder Vil­lage. Another high­light of the 2015 sea­son is the open­ing of the Grime Home­stead. Slated to open mid-June, the …

Ohio Attor­ney Gen­eral Mike DeWine is warn­ing Ohioans to beware of threat­en­ing calls, in which the caller says they are from the IRS as the April 15 tax fil­ing dead­line approaches. In the past week along, the Ohio Attor­ney General’s Office has received more than 100 reports of IRS-related scams …

The first read­ing of an ordi­nance to increase the income tax in Stryker by .3% was knocked down by a vote of four to two. If approved through three read­ings, the issue would have been on the Novem­ber bal­lot to increase the cur­rent 1.5 per­cent vil­lage income tax by 0.3 …

A Defi­ance County jury on Fri­day, decided that the widow of a for­mer Gen­eral Motors employee who died of lung can­cer is enti­tled to work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion ben­e­fits. It took a jury about four and a half hours to reach their deci­sion, in which they ruled that Fayrene Den­nis of Arkansas, …

A man from Defi­ance man is dead, fol­low­ing a Fri­day after­noon crash in Allen County that left seven other peo­ple injured. 79 year old William Edgar Defi­ance was killed in the crash that hap­pened just after 2 Fri­day after­noon at U.S. 30 and Thayer Road when his north­bound Ford F-150 …

The North­west State Board of Trustees on Fri­day after­noon, unan­i­mously voted to rat­ify the rec­om­men­da­tions pro­vided by a third party fact-finding orga­ni­za­tion and end an ongo­ing labor dis­pute. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, the North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion voted to rat­ify the new con­tract for the school’s edu­ca­tors. …

One arrest by Williams County Sher­iffs Deputis over the weekend.…46 year old Ronald Brust of Bryan was arrested on a Williams County Com­mon Pleas Court war­rant for felony theft.He is cur­rently being held at Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of NW Ohio

Ground has been bro­ken, and now work is under­way, for the new Nature Fresh Farm facil­ity on Ohio 109 at Delta. The project rep­re­sents a $200 mil­lion invest­ment in the area, and is expected to be well under­way by the end of the year. Com­pany offi­cials say within 7 years, …

Jerry Lee Windisch, age 73, of Wauseon passed away Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at the University of Toledo Medical Center. Mr. Windisch was born in Wauseon on November 6, 1941 the son of the late Clifford and the late Orpha (Mock) Windisch. On September 14, 1968 he married Donna (Maust) Windisch …

Jack E. Currier, age 83, of Stryker passed away Thursday April 9, 2015 at Genesis Health Care in Bryan. Prior to his retirement he had worked for several area factories and was a cook at local restaurants. Mr. Currier was born on August 24, 1931 in Waterville, Ohio to the …