Bernice Jean McDermott died on December 2, 2014 at the Defiance Area Inpatient Care Center in Defiance, Ohio. She was born and raised in Lenawee county Michigan and lived most of her life in northwest Ohio. She moved to Tennessee for an early retirement before moving back to West Unity …

The body of a man from Michi­gan who had been miss­ing since this past June was dis­cov­ered in Put­nam County. The remains of 52 year old Brian Mar­tin were found near Leip­sic. Put­nam County Coro­ner Anna Horstman pro­nounced Mar­tin dead at the scene, just off County Road Y. Mar­tin went …

Nearly sixty-three days have passed since the Octo­ber Board of Trustees Meet­ing when Pro­fes­sional and Sup­port Staff mem­bers of the North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion (NSCCEA) issued a vote of ‘No Con­fi­dence’ in the Pres­i­dent and his Cab­i­net for rea­sons of a long-standing pat­tern of cen­tral­ized decision-making, lack of …

Bryan Police have nabbed a local man, wanted on a bench war­rant for fail­ure to pay taxes. On Wednes­day morn­ing, around 10:30, cops took 28 year old Chad Coff­man of South Beech Street in Bryan into cus­tody on the war­rant issued out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Coff­man is specif­i­cally charged …

At their meet­ing last evening, Assis­tant Fire Chief Jim Eisel told the Board of the West Unity Area Cham­ber of Com­merce the depart­ment is in need of $438 to pur­chase a radio head­set which would be used by the fire­fight­ers oper­at­ing the pumper dur­ing emer­gency calls. The depart­ment already has …

Police and sheriff’s deputies in Defi­ance and Henry coun­ties are get­ting ready for their annual Shop with a Cop and Deputy events. For nearly 20 years, the annual pro­gram has held the event, which pairs kids with law enforce­ment offi­cers who help them pur­chase cloth­ing. This year’s Shop with a …

Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties’ bud­get for the com­ing year will show an increase over 2014. Part of the rea­son for the increase is the num­ber of large projects planned for 2015. The 2015 bud­get is now pro­jected to be $29,997,000. That’s an increase of about $866,000 over the 2014 bud­get of …

An arrest in Bryan for dis­or­derly con­duct… Bryan Police on Tues­day evening, around 7:15, arrested 40 year old William F. John­son of N. Union St in Bryan, for Dis­or­derly Con­duct. He was released. Bryan Police have opted to with­hold any fur­ther infor­ma­tion about Johnson’s arrest.

A woman was lucky after her car crashed Mon­day morn­ing in Defi­ance on East River Drive, west of East High Street. Defi­ance Police say it hap­pened around 11:30 Mon­day morn­ing, when the woman’s vehi­cle ran off the road, hit a util­ity pole and came to rest in the trees and …

In Williams County, the open­ing day of the one-week white tail deer-gun sea­son got off to a rather slow start. Wildlife offi­cers say only 286 deer were har­vested in Williams County… almost 16 per­cent less than the 340 deer killed on open­ing day last year. Wildlife offi­cers say it’s part …