Too much snow, and no place left to put it. That’t the sit­u­a­tion in down­town Defi­ance, and it’s prompted Defi­ance Mayor Bob Arm­strong to declare a snow emer­gency and down­town park­ing ban so city crews can begin to remove snow from the down­town. Park­ing is pro­hib­ited on most down­town streets …

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege and the North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion, both claim they were forced to can­cel a fact-finding ses­sion that each had hoped would help resolve dif­fer­ences over cen­tral­iza­tion of power and a new con­tract agree­ment. The edu­ca­tion asso­ci­a­tion said, in a press release, that the rea­son …

Marta Sanchez, 89 years, of Sherwood, also known as Martha, passed away Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, Defiance.  Marta was born February 8, 1925 in Del Rio, Texas, the daughter of the late Manuel and Petra (Rodriguez) Romo. Martha married Juan L. Sanchez on January 18, …

A new hat has been tossed into the ring for the job of mayor of Hicksville. Diane Collins announced that she wants the job. The 57 year old Collins is now the clerk trea­surer in Hicksville, a posi­tion she has held for eight terms. Born in Hicksville, Collins is a …

Good news for Defi­ance fire­fight­ers. City Coun­cil approved a new three year con­tract with the fire­fight­ers, that calls for annual raises on Tues­day night. The new con­tract is retroac­tive to Jan. 1 and will run until Dec. 31, 2017. Under the terms of the new con­tract, raises of 2.75 per­cent …

The for­mer head of the Williams County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (WEDCO), has been sen­tenced on OVI charges in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Dia­mond Zim­mer­man was sen­tenced to serve 90 days in jail, with 70 days sus­pended… as long as she has no new vio­la­tions within two years. Zim­mer­man will also lose …

Martha F. Hurd, age 93, of Blakeslee, Ohio, died at 3:35 P.M. on Tuesday, February 3, 2015, at Park View Nursing Center in Edgerton, Ohio, where she was a resident. A lifelong resident of the Edon area, she was a homemaker and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and …

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 …