Ronald L. Peabody, age 76, of Swanton and formerly of Delta passed away Sunday June 22, 2014 at the Advanced Specialty Hospital in Toledo. Mr. Peabody was employed by IAC in Wauseon. Mr. Peabody was born on November 9, 1937 in Pike Twp., Fulton County, Ohio the son of the …

Marjorie V. Eisele, 98, of Montpelier passed away Sunday afternoon at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home in Montpelier.  She was born on May 21, 1916 in Detroit, Michigan to Harvey and Ruby (Weber) Koepke.  Marjorie was preceded in death by her parents and three brothers, Croy, Ray and Harvey Koepke. No services will …

The Put­nam County Sheriff’s Office this morn­ing reports that crews are on the scene of a tanker truck rollover acci­dent on State Route 65 between Bel­more and the Henry County line. Offi­cials are ask­ing dri­vers to avoid that area as the road there may be shut down due to a …

In late 2010, Ruralogic came to our area, bring­ing with it the promise of train­ing area res­i­dents for careers in IT ser­vices. Now though, the county and many here are wait­ing for the begin­ning of the court-ordered repay­ments on unpaid loans and wages. In March, a court deci­sion was handed …

At least one per­son was sent to the hos­pi­tal when a home blew up Mon­day after­noon in Wauseon. Fire crews say at least five peo­ple were in the home on Clin­ton Street when it exploded around 4:30pm. Ini­tial reports indi­cate that a gas leak was behind the explo­sion, which caused …

A bad thun­der­storm rolled through Williams County on Mon­day after­noon. It didn’t last long, but it caused a lot of dam­age any­way. The storm’s down­draft was strong enough to snap off 13 util­ity poles that stood along Ohio 15, between County F and County Road G, north of Bryan. Accord­ing …

Peggy Ann Acosta, age 47, of Defiance, went home with the Lord on June 10, 2014 at St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, after a four-year battle of liver disease. Peggy had been an employee of Silgan Can Company before her accident. Peggy was born on July 11, 1966 to …

Frances M. (Ames) Nyari, age 98, of Edgerton, Ohio, and formerly of Bryan, Ohio, died at 3:20 A.M. on Saturday, June 21, 2014, at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home in Montpelier, Ohio, after an extended illness. Mrs. Nyari attended Bryan High School and was co-owner with her husband of Nyari Trucking, …

Accord­ing to pub­lished reports, the Relay for Life held this week­end at Hicksville Exempted Vil­lage Schools was a big suc­cess. The Cres­cent News reports that while the goal this year was $32,000, the started the relay off with $20,000 already com­mit­ted. In the end, offi­cials were proud to announce that …

Accord­ing to sta­tis­tics released last week by the State Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, almost 90 per­cent of third-graders in Ohio have earned high enough scores on school read­ing assess­ments to advance to the fourth grade. A total of 105,681 pub­lic school stu­dents out of 119,393 total statewide and 5,878 char­ter stu­dents …