William E. Burke, age 82, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away Tuesday, February 3, 2015, at Genesis Healthcare- Bryan Center. Mr. Burke had worked for many years at Inland Steel in East Chicago, Indiana and ran Morenci Recreation for many years after that. He attended Wesley United Methodist Church in Bryan …

Nora Black, 83 years, of Hamilton, passed away Monday, February 2, 2015 at the Laurels of DeKalb, Butler, Indiana.  Nora was born June 17, 1931 in Perry County, Kentucky, the daughter of the late Finley and Lillie (Rice) Baker. She was married to Woodrow Fugate for 14 years.  Nora then married Kenneth …

The num­bers are in, and now it appears that Ohio’s white-tailed deer archery sea­son, which closed Sun­day, Feb. 1, mark­ing the end of Ohio’s 2014–15 deer hunt­ing sea­son, resulted in hunters across the state bag­ging a total of 175,745 deer dur­ing all 2014–15 hunt­ing sea­sons. The Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural …

The slip­pery north­side hill in Defi­ance cre­ated prob­lems for dri­vers and was behind sev­eral crashes Tues­day. In fact, four crashes occurred at North Clin­ton and High streets between 6:30 and 8 a.m. alone onTues­day morn­ing. There was no report of any­one being seri­ously hurt in those crashes yes­ter­day morn­ing, but …

In Wauseon, plans to build a new pool are mov­ing for­ward. A res­o­lu­tion aimed at plac­ing the new pool at a city park, received unan­i­mous sup­port from coun­cil dur­ing their Mon­day night meet­ing, and now will be headed toward a sec­ond read­ing. How a pool project would be funded how­ever, …

Heads up if you are head­ing out today… The National Weather Ser­vice in north­ern Indi­ana has issued a Win­ter Weather Advi­sory for Williams, Defi­ance, Henry, Pauld­ing, Put­nam, Ful­ton, Van Wert and Allen coun­ties. The advi­sory is from noon-7 p.m. today, and warns of haz­ardous weather and dri­ving con­di­tions, with snow …

Mildred I. Durbin, age 90, of Archbold, passed away Monday, February 2, 2015 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. Arrangements are pending at the Grisier Funeral Home in Archbold.

Marvin B. Gowins, age 69, of Bryan, Ohio, died on Sunday, February 1, 2015, at 4:30 P.M. Mr. Gowins was a graduate of Bryan High School and worked independently as a truck driver for forty years. He was a member of the Moose, AM Vets, and the Eagles. Marvin was …

Last week’s raids by law enforce­ment on two tobacco shops in Williams County and a truck stop in Napoleon, has now ended up with a long list of seri­ous charges against an area man. 62 year old Michael Adams of Napoleon, the owner of all the busi­nesses that were hit, …

The Williams Met­ro­pol­i­tan Hous­ing Author­ity wait­ing list will be open at the Williams County com­mu­nity offices at 1425 E. High St., Bryan on Feb. 23 from 1–3 p.m.; on Feb. 25 from 9–11 a.m.; and on Feb. 27 from 1–3 p.m. Appli­cants must bring a piece of mail ver­i­fy­ing cur­rent …