John F. McLaughlin, age 88, of Wauseon passed away late Wednesday October 22, 2014 in his home. Prior to his retirement he had been Plant Manager for the former McCord Corporation in Wauseon. Arrangements are pending at the Edgar-Grisier Funeral Home.

Adriane K. Huffman, age 34, of Columbus, and formerly of Archbold, passed away unexpectedly in her home on Thursday, October 23, 2014. Adriane’s love of animals was so strong that she became a Veterinarian. As a Veterinarian she became an expert in the rehabilitation of animals. Arrangements are pending at …

Good week­end eat­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties. The Scar­let Strut­ters Baton Corps will hold the annual fundraiser chili din­ner Sun­day at Ayersville United Methodist Church on Defi­ance Ayersville Road. Buy­ing a chili din­ner for 6 dol­lars gets you a free refill. Money goes to cos­tumes and trips for the baton corps. And the …

It is begin­ning to look like Christ­mas in Bryan and it’s not even Hal­loween. Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties elec­tri­cal work­ers have been string­ing up Christ­mas lights down­town on the light poles. There are 61 days between today and Christ­mas Day.

In Napoleon, the fire chief is quit­ting, but the rea­sons are unclear. Robert Ben­nett told city offi­cials he would resign effec­tive Novem­ber first and Coun­cil was asked at this week’s meet­ing to pass an agree­ment of sep­a­ra­tion, which it did with­out debate. When asked how come Ben­nett was placed on …

The State High­way Patrol reminds dri­vers that this is the sea­son when deer are very active and most car and deer col­li­sions hap­pen. Sun­day a car was heav­ily dam­aged hit­ting a deer on US 127 in Wash­ing­ton Town­ship in Defi­ance County. On Mon­day a car hit a deer also in …

For the past week north­ern Ohio has been con­sumed with Ebola anx­i­ety after Texas nurse and Akron native Amber Vin­son was diag­nosed with the deadly virus after fly­ing home with an ele­vated tem­per­a­ture and then feel­ing ill after she arrived at her parent’s home in Tall­madge. Now, it appears Amber …

Defiance’s loss is Napoleon’s gain, as Defi­ance Stamp­ing, which has called Defi­ance home since 1928, is mov­ing to fac­tory and office space in Napoleon. The com­pany took out a long term lease on the build­ing located off US 24 and will ask Napoleon for a small incen­tive deal to help …

Bryan’s direc­tor of the Hill­side County Liv­ing facil­ity on County Road 16 in Bryan is gone, sub­mit­ting his res­ig­na­tion after the Ohio Depart­ment of Health dis­cov­ered his administrator’s license had expired. Jef­frey Wan­ge­ness is out, and for­mer admin­is­tra­tor Mar­cia Hauer is back in. The health depart­ment came to Hill­side to …

The United Way board green lighted a new ini­tia­tive called the We Care Cab­i­net. United Way is part­ner­ing with area food pantries to add toi­letry and per­sonal care items to food pack­ages, rea­son­ing that these are things that some­times peo­ple might skip eat­ing to acquire. The United Way spent 25 …