Dorothy M. Berry, age 83, of rural Bryan, Ohio, died at 6:30 A.M. on Friday, December 19, 2014, at Evergreen Manor Nursing Center in Montpelier, Ohio, where she was a resident. Mrs. Berry was a 1949 graduate of Edon High School and was a long-time employee of Custom Fit, where …

Virginia L. Nofziger, age 92, of Pettisville, passed away Monday, December 22, 2014 at Glenn Park of Defiance. Prior to her retirement she worked for the former United Telephone Company in Archbold and Wauseon. Virginia was born in Wauseon on May 15, 1922, the daughter of the late Aaron and …

Jan L. Brown, 69, of Cooney, lost her long, hard fought battle with cancer early Monday morning.  She passed away peacefully at home surrounded by the people who loved her most.  She was born on September 5, 1945 in Wauseon, Ohio to James L. and Marvel L. (Miller) Strohl, Sr.  Jan graduated from …

Although time is run­ning short, as long as they can round up enough signs to make it hap­pen, Defi­ance city offi­cials plan to imple­ment the new one-way traf­fic pat­tern for Fort Street and Wash­ing­ton Avenue, north of Sec­ond Street, by the end of this year. The Cres­cent News reports that …

In Mont­pe­lier on Mon­day, vil­lage coun­cil mem­bers dis­cussed whether golf carts should legally be con­sid­ered a dis­abil­ity vehi­cle. Vil­lage Legal Coun­cil Chris Walker said golf carts that may be dis­al­lowed on streets because of being con­sid­ered unsafe, but that rea­son­able accom­mo­da­tions must be made for those with dis­abil­i­ties. No action …

Williams County com­mis­sion­ers met on Mon­day, and there was some spir­ited dis­cus­sion between the sher­iff and the com­mis­sion­ers. While the com­mis­sion­ers called it a “philo­soph­i­cal dif­fer­ence” Sher­iff Steve Towns says it’s the com­mis­sion­ers’ way of “manip­u­lat­ing” his depart­ment. The dis­agree­ment cen­ters on the com­mis­sion­ers refusal to increase the sheriff’s bud­get …

Kathryn Elizabeth Sharp, 102 years, passed away Sunday, December 21, 2014 in her residence with her family at her side.  Kathryn was born May 13, 1912 in Bowling Green, Ohio, the daughter of the late Frank L. and Bertha (Reed) Keep.  She was a graduate of Bowling Green High School, and then …

Susan Leigh (Ullrich) Birr, age 63, of Montpelier passed away late December 19, 2014 at Community Hospitals of Williams County in Bryan following a brief illness. Mrs. Birr was a lifelong homemaker and had also worked at Pizza Hut in Bryan at one time. Mrs. Birr was born in San …

Bryan Police were busy over the week­end… On Sat­ur­day, police arrested 65 year old William Robert­son, Jr of East High Street in Bryan on a charge of dis­or­derly con­duct. He was then released. Sev­eral arrests on Sun­day, include that of 25 year old Andrew Robers of Fayet­teville, Ten­nessee who was …

Napoleon Police report a num­ber of com­plaints recently con­cern­ing coun­ter­feit cur­rency in Napoleon. Most of the funny money has so far been reported in the form of $20 bills, and police say each of the iden­ti­fied bills has had sim­i­lar or iden­ti­cal ser­ial num­bers. Police also say how­ever, some fake …