Robert Carl Nester, age 92, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 2:30 P.M. on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, at his home, surrounded by his family. Mr. Nester was a farmer, a truck driver and proudly served in the US Navy during World War II. He was a member of Bryan VFW …

The Mov­ing Wall-Vietnam Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial will be at Defi­ance Col­lege from Thurs­day through Sun­day to mark the 50th anniver­sary of the Viet­nam War. Begin­ning Thurs­day morn­ing at 9, the Wall will have a motor­cy­cle escort, with more than 1,000 motor­cy­clists who plan to take part in the pro­ces­sion. That motor­cy­cle …

Stu­dents in the Wayne Trace School Dis­trict may soon be rou­tinely tested for drugs. The school board on Mon­day evening dis­cussed the mer­its of a drug test­ing pol­icy for junior high/high school student-athletes. Teach­ers, coaches, and admin­is­tra­tors pre­sented infor­ma­tion about how a drug test­ing pro­gram for the 2014–15 school year …

A fugi­tive escaped from the Lenawee County Court Lock-up Tues­day morn­ing, and author­i­ties say he could be in our area. 27-year-old Scott War­ren Hen­ning walked out of the cour­t­house in Adrian around 10:15 yes­ter­day morn­ing, when the lock on a cell mal­func­tioned. Hen­ning was serv­ing 93 days in jail for …

A raid at a Defi­ance home turned up sev­eral meth labs and resulted in the arrests of two peo­ple ear­lier this week. The Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Depart­ment says that on Mon­day, the Multi Area Nar­cotics Task Force searched a home on Defi­ance Cross­ing and found sev­eral one-pot meth labs. 38 …

Gus E. Phillips, age 66, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 8:20 P.M. on Sunday, June 8, 2014, at his residence after a lengthy illness. Gus owned Phillips Motors in Bryan for 28 years. He was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Bryan, the Bryan Eagles Aerie #2233 …

Paul J. Fry, age 83, of Edon, Ohio, died at 4:15 P.M. on Saturday, June 7, 2014, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, where he was a patient. Mr. Fry was a 1948 graduate of Edon High School and was a veteran of the United States Marines. …

A Spe­cial Meet­ing of the Board of Edu­ca­tion of the Bryan City School Dis­trict is being held today. Accord­ing to the announce­ment of the meet­ing, the pur­pose of today’s meet­ing was to hold a Board plan­ning retreat and any other busi­ness that may be pend­ing. We’ll try to have more …

The Pauld­ing County Fair began Mon­day and it runs through Sat­ur­day. Admis­sion is free. Today is senior day at the fair. All seniors age 60 and older are wel­come to com­pli­men­tary refresh­ments start­ing at 8 a.m.. A com­pli­men­tary lunch — sand­wich, salad, fruit, cookie and drink — will be pro­vided …

The Mov­ing Wall-Vietnam Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial will be at Defi­ance Col­lege from Thurs­day through Sun­day to mark the 50th anniver­sary of the Viet­nam War. Begin­ning Thurs­day morn­ing at 9, the Wall will have a motor­cy­cle escort, with more than 1,000 motor­cy­clists who plan to take part in the pro­ces­sion. That motor­cy­cle …