Jean M. Rychener, 52 years, of Bryan, passed away Wednesday, February 18, 2015 in the emergency room of St. Luke’s Hospital, Maumee from injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Fayette earlier in the day.  Jean was born June 7, 1962 in San Diego, California, the daughter of Michael J. and …

Alina Victoria Simon, age 18, of Burbank, California, and formerly of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, February 17, 2015, in Springfield, Ohio, where she was attending Wittenberg University as a freshman after finishing her high school education in just three years. In her time at Wittenberg, she loved the …

Analee Marie Balogh, infant daughter of Samantha M. Mosler and Trenton J. Balogh, was stillborn at 6:51 P.M. on February 17, 2015, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan, Ohio. Survivors include her parents of Edgerton, Ohio; a brother, Rylan J. Balogh, at home; her grandparents, Dave and Deb …

A Defi­ance farmer has won $2,500 for the Defi­ance County Ag Soci­ety through America’s Farm­ers Grow Com­mu­ni­ties. Sheri Schliesser has been selected as a win­ner in America’s Farm­ers Grow Com­mu­ni­ties, spon­sored by the Mon­santo Fund. The pro­gram enrolls farm­ers for a chance to win $2,500, which is then donated to …

Fire­fight­ers bat­tled flames and the cold weather Sat­ur­day after­noon on Kiser Road in Defi­ance. A couple’s home there suf­fered sig­nif­i­cant dam­age. It was dis­cov­ered bur­ing in the kitchen when the home­own­ers came home around 2:30 Sat­ur­day after­noon. Dam­age to the struc­ture at 20268 Kiser Road was esti­mated at around $100,000 …

The Cres­cent News today reports that the CSX train car­ry­ing crude oil, which derailed in West Vir­ginia last week, passed through Defi­ance and Henry coun­ties before trav­el­ing south. Tracy Busch, the Direc­tor of the Henry County Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency, told the paper that a lot of the ethanol and crude …

A Bryan man has pleaded guilty in a Williams County rape case. 28 year old Richard Mojica Jr was indicted by a Williams County grand jury in Decem­ber. He pleaded guilty Thurs­day. Mojica is charged in an inci­dent that hap­pened back in May last year, when he allgedly engaged in …

State fund­ing for Ohio’s two– and four-year col­leges would increase by 2 per­cent each year under Gov. John Kasich’s recently-released bien­nial bud­get pro­posal, but even so, accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, cost-savings will remain a focus at North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege as admin­is­tra­tors face new bud­get­ing chal­lenges. Effec­tive last year, …

A. Roy Wyse, age 92, of Wauseon passed away late Wednesday February 18, 2015. Prior to his retirement he had worked for the German Village Products in Wauseon and had also been a area Dairy Farmer. Mr. Wyse was born in Wauseon on January 21, 1923 the son of the late …

A two-vehicle col­li­sion at the Williams-Fulton County line north of West Unity on Wednes­day has claimed the life of a Bryan woman. 52 year old Jean Rych­ener [RICK-NER] of Bryan, was dri­ving east on U.S. 20, as 70 year old Kathaleen Schmitt of Alvord­ton [ALL-VORD-TON], was dri­ving west. Rych­ener lost …