Shirley Ann Graf (Wolf), 78, of Wauseon, Ohio left our world to be with the Lord Saturday July 12, 2014 at the Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center in Defiance, Ohio. She passed peacefully in the night after a short, courageous battle with cancer. On April 3, 1936, God sent an …

Larry P. Chaffins, 67 years, of Auburn, passed away Friday, July 11, 2014 in his residence with his family by his side.  Larry was born August 1, 1946 in Garrett, Kentucky, the son of the late W. Hiatt and Helen M. (Bradley) Chaffins.  He was a 1964 graduate of Garrett High School, …

Terry Lynn Stark, age 57, of Swanton, Ohio, passed away on July 4 2014, at Ebeid Hospice Residency in Sylvania, Ohio. He was born on April 16, 1957, in Bryan, Ohio. A graduate of Bryan High School (‘75), Terry moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he worked for several area sign …

In West Unity, the sewer rates were dis­cussed at last Thursday’s coun­cil meet­ing. An audit that was done recently for 2012–13, showed a deficit spend­ing for the village’s sewer plant oper­a­tion, and coun­cil learned last week that cur­rent sewer rate income will not meet loan oblig­a­tions. Good news for the …

A new health tech­nol­ogy sys­tem will be avail­able in Williams, Ful­ton, Defi­ance and Van Wert coun­ties begin­ning tomor­row. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, Parkview Physi­cians Group will begin to use “MyChart,” a secure and con­fi­den­tial web-based tool that allows patients to com­mu­ni­cate with their doctor’s offices and access many of …

The State High­way Patrols says a woman was seri­ously injured last Thurs­day evening in a three-vehicle crash in San­dusky County. Troop­ers say it hap­pened when a car dri­ven by 52 year old Teresa Miller of Defi­ance, head­ing east­bound on U.S. 6, attempted to pass a semi. A west­bound semi was …

Bryan City School Board of Edu­ca­tion will be hold­ing their reg­u­lar sched­uled meet­ing tonight at 6. Then, fol­low­ing that meet­ing, and begin­ning at 7pm, the Board would like to invite the pub­lic to a spe­cial board meet­ing for the pub­lic input on the site plans. Kraig Beil­harz (BILE-HARZ) from Beil­harz …

In Steuben County, you can now access 911 through the use of text mes­sag­ing. The ser­vice started Thurs­day, and in mak­ing the announce­ment, county offi­cials said “pub­lic safety has taken a major move for­ward.“ A tech com­pany from Fort Wayne designed, built and oper­ates the IN911 net­work for the State …

Montpelier’s own Jef­frey Erb of Saneholtz-McKarns Inc. is head­ing to Wash­ing­ton, D.C. at the end of the month to par­tic­i­pate in the National Retail Federation’s leg­isla­tive fly-in, the Retail Advo­cates Sum­mit. Erb will join over 150 small busi­ness own­ers, entre­pre­neurs, Main Street mer­chants and com­mu­nity retail­ers for edu­ca­tion ses­sions, net­work­ing, …

First Call for Help Inc., of Napoleon, and Fam­ily Ser­vice of North­west Ohio, based in Toledo, have merged their ser­vices, effec­tive July 1. Fam­ily Ser­vice of North­west Ohio has an office in Wauseon, through Four County Fam­ily Cen­ter, and offers coun­sel­ing, home care, out­reach, advo­cacy and pre­ven­tion edu­ca­tion ser­vices. It …