Dolores June Robarge, age 84, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday, December 24, 2014, at her home. Dolores was a homemaker and helped her husband for many years with farming. She was a member of the First Brethren Church in Bryan and enjoyed her Sunday School classes there. One …

The hol­i­day sea­son is here. Yes­ter­day of course, was Christ­mas. Now, as we head for the next big hol­i­day, New Years Day, the National High­way Traf­fic Safety Admin­is­tra­tion wants to remind dri­vers that it’s dan­ger­ous to drive after drink­ing. The Williams County Health Department’s Safe Com­mu­nity pro­gram reminds dri­vers that …

Unem­ploy­ment in the six-county area, accord­ing to fig­ures just released by the Ohio Depart­ment of Job and Fam­ily Ser­vice, remained mostly unchanged from Octo­ber to Novem­ber. All of the local coun­ties had unem­ploy­ment rates below both the national and state rates of 5.5 per­cent and 4.5 per­cent respec­tively. The high­est …

Bryan Police were called out ear­lier this week to a two-vehicle acci­dent. They say hap­pened around 9:21 a.m. Tues­day at the inter­sec­tion of Main and Wil­son streets in Bryan. As the inves­ti­ga­tion is con­tin­u­ing, now Bryan Police are ask­ing for your help so they can fig­ure out just what hap­pened. …

An inmate at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio died after arriv­ing at a hos­pi­tal emer­gency room early Teus­day morn­ing. 26 year old Stephen Aaron Sar­gent of Toledo, was pro­nounced dead at 6:50 a.m. yes­ter­day at Com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tal of Williams County in Bryan. He had been taken by ambu­lance from …

Could we see a white Christ­mas? Well, accord­ing to the National weather ser­vice, the odds are slightly in our favor. The National Weather Ser­vice, as of Tues­day, was pre­dict­ing about a 60 per­cent chance of some snow for Christ­mas, but it all depends on how sev­eral storm sys­tems mov­ing across …

Allen B. Hootman, age 70, of Evansport, passed away Sunday evening, December 21, 2014 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. Prior to his retirement he worked as a carpenter and also as a machine operator at Napoleon Products and Scranton Machine. Allen was born in Hicksville, Ohio on November 6, 1944, …

Richard T. Maze, age 72, of Wauseon and formerly of Toledo passed away early Saturday December 20, 2014 following an extended illness. Prior to his retirement he had been a cook for John Fronk’s various restaurants. Mr. Maze was born in Toledo on August 31, 1942 the son of the …

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 …