Richard H. Carteyn, 82 years, of Hicksville, and formerly of Farmer, passed away Friday, August 22, 2014 at Hickory Creek at Hicksville.  Richard was born July 28, 1932 in Bryan, the son of the late Achiel and Myrtle (Donley) Carteyn.  Richard was an Army Veteran serving during the Korean Conflict.  He was employed …

Jerry L. Tracy, age 69, of Wauseon, passed away unexpectedly on Monday morning, August 25, 2014 at the Fulton County Health Center. Jerry was a Pastor with the Adullam Prison Ministry in Ohio and South Carolina. He also ministered to the homeless at Toledo Gospel Mission on Jefferson Avenue every …

Dean A Beamont Sr,75 of Stryker died Monday August 25, 2014 at Fairlawn Haven in Archbold, Ohio He was born April 13,1939 in Columbus Ohio to the late Gerald and Helen (Snow) Beamont. On September 10, 1966 he married Irene L (Johns) Beamont, who died March 4th, 2003 Dean was …

Mercy Defi­ance Clinic is warn­ing of fraud­u­lent phone calls being made by scam­mers claim­ing to rep­re­sent the clinic. They say scam­mers are mak­ing ran­dom calls claim­ing to be a col­lec­tion agency work­ing for Mercy Defi­ance Clinic. The callers tell the recip­i­ent that they have an over­due account bal­ance and they …

The Regional Can­cer Care Cen­ter of Angola is hold­ing free PSA prostate can­cer screen­ings on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 5th from 8:00am until 12noon. This screen­ing will require a blood draw, but no fast­ing is required. Men between the ages of 40 and 75 are encour­aged to attend. Men under the age …

A plane crashed Mon­day after­noon in Williams County. Accord­ing to the Williams County Sheriff’s Office, Sam Santa Rita had just taken off in his sin­gle engine plane from his pri­vate airstrip near Edger­ton, when the air­craft crashed into the woods. The plane was totaled, but amaz­ingly, Santa Rita was able …

Seri­ous doubts are now aris­ing about the via­bil­ity of a com­mu­nity pool in Hol­gate. Offi­cials say the pool facil­ity needs work, it’s under-used, and quite pos­si­bly far enough beyond repair that it may sim­ply be shut down. The Henry County Health Depart­ment says the pool needs repairs in order to …

Tires from pas­sen­ger cars and pickup trucks, with­out rims, will be accepted at no charge at the Ful­ton County Trans­fer Sta­tion, on County Road 12 on Sept. 27 and Oct. 25, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. There is a limit of four tires per house­hold, and no com­mer­cial or busi­ness tires …

The North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees has given notice that they will hold a spe­cial meet­ing on Wednes­day, at 12:00 noon in the McDougle Cen­ter (Room A101C). The board plans to go into exec­u­tive ses­sion to con­sider the dis­missal of pub­lic employ­ees. They have reported that action may …

Defi­ance Ele­men­tary stu­dents are receiv­ing an Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion grant. The ODE has noti­fied the Defi­ance City School Dis­trict, that it received a $600,000 21st Cen­tury Grant for before and after­school grade K-5 edu­ca­tional pro­grams. The funds will be used for staff, sup­plies, tech­nol­ogy and trans­porta­tion expenses, at the …