Thomas Wesley Climo, age 91, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 12:15 P.M. on Friday, October 17, 2014, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, near Defiance. Mr. Climo was a clerk at Spangler Candy & Tobacco for 30 years prior to his retirement. He was a World War II veteran of …

Wava F. Missler, age 87, of Bryan, Ohio, and formerly of Edon, Ohio, died at 8:05 P.M. on Friday, October 17, 2014, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center after a brief illness. Mrs. Missler was a homemaker and a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Bryan. She enjoyed attending the Bryan Senior …

Donald “Don” L. Dietsch, 58, a lifelong resident of Montpelier passed away Saturday night at the Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  He was born on July 16, 1956 in Montpelier to Frank H. and Barbara J. (Bavin) Dietsch.  Don graduated from Montpelier High School in 1974, and earned a …

Stanley R. Packard, age 57, of Holland, Ohio, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, October 17, 2014 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Maumee. Stanley had worked for Owens Illinois. Arrangements are pending at the Grisier Funeral Home in Delta.

John G. Hummel, 75, formerly of Bryan passed away Friday afternoon in Summerfield, Florida.  Pending funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the Thompson Funeral Home in Montpelier.

At Cedar Point yes­ter­day roller coaster fans bade a fond farewell to the Man­tis, which closed for good at the end of the day after 18 years of deliv­er­ing thrills as one of the tallest, fastest and steep­est stand-up roller coast­ers in the world. This week they start dis­man­tling the …

The human part­ner of the Med­ina K-9 offi­cer that died when left in a hot squad car for four hours in the sun is now charged with ani­mal cru­elty. Sgt Brett Har­ri­son of Montville Town­ship police was charged with two mis­de­meanor counts of cru­elty. The Ger­man Shep­herd Beny died when …

A more nor­mal win­ter is on tap for Ohio. The National Weather Ser­vice says a drier win­ter is expected, with tem­per­a­tures that could run a few degrees on either side of nor­mal. It’s a much dif­fer­ent fore­cast from last winter’s real­ity, where bit­ter cold tem­per­a­tures and heavy snow made a …

Jus­tice Sharon Kennedy of the Ohio Supreme Court is com­ing to Bryan a week from today to meet the pub­lic. Com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tal is the host of the meet and greet with Kennedy and any­body who would like to meet a state supreme court judge can come chat with her. Jus­tice …

Local law enforce­ment reminds dri­vers that this is the sea­son deer are in rut and mov­ing around, and it is prime time for car and deer col­li­sions. Fri­day in Williams County in Madi­son Town­ship at car hit a deer on US 20A and the car suf­fered mod­er­ate dam­age. And Sat­ur­day …