Dorothy M. Burns, 68 years of Bryan, passed away Thursday, December 4, 2014 at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, Defiance.  Dorothy was born April 11, 1946, in Bryan, Ohio, the daughter of the late Denton and Eleanore (Shadel) Kuhn.  Dorothy married William W. Burns on July 8, 1976 in Melvindale, Michigan, and …

A Fre­mont man has been arrested in DeKalb County on charges of child molest­ing. Accord­ing to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, 33 year old Michael Clifton was cuffed at his place of work after charges were filed against him fol­low­ing a long inves­ti­ga­tion into accu­sa­tions that he allegedly molested a …

Sev­eral fam­i­lies are now start­ing all over after flames destroyed every­thing they owned this week near Grover Hill. Tina How­ell lived at the home on Road 155, where she said her fam­ily has been for 82 years. Her fam­ily lost every­thing in the blaze on Mon­day. How­ell, her sons, her …

In Steuben County, three spe­cial excep­tion requests that would cover new 190 foot tall tow­ers cleared the County Plan Com­mis­sion on Wednes­day. By a unan­i­mous 5 to 0 vote, the Plan Com­mis­sion approved all three requests, say­ing they would not affect the county’s mas­ter plan. Brian Don­nelly from Cen­tral States …

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 …