You’re in for an after­noon of old-time base­ball on Sat­ur­day, July 26 as the Great Black Swamp Frogs, the Spiegel Grove Squires and the Elkhart County Rail­road­ers gather for a Vin­tage Base Ball Tour­na­ment at Sauder Vil­lage. IT’s three base­ball games being played using rules from the 1860s. This is …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture issued a press release on Sun­day, stat­ing Fort Defi­ance Meats, based in Defi­ance, has issued a vol­un­tary recall for kip­pered beef prod­ucts due to a pro­cess­ing devi­a­tion, and a recall for snack sticks due to being pro­duced with­out inspection.The prod­ucts being recalled include: • Indi­vid­ual …

Some top-name enter­tain­ment is com­ing to the 2014 Ful­ton County Fair: The Doo­bie Broth­ers on Sun­day, August 31 and Lee Brice on Labor Day Mon­day. Tick­ets for these and other grand­stand shows are on sale now. New this year, the Fair is pro­vid­ing an online box office which is acces­si­ble …

CaraLou (DeVries) Frey, age 86, of Archbold, passed away Wednesday evening, July 16, 2014 in Defiance, Ohio. Arrangements are pending at the Grisier Funeral Home in Archbold.

An Amer­i­can Red Cross blood drive will be held today from 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. in Arch­bold. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800-RED-CROSS.

A fire Wednes­day morn­ing at the LE Smith Com­pany in Bryan has now been labeled as arson. Dam­age was minor, only about $800, but inves­ti­ga­tors say it was the high heat nec­es­sary to ignite the fire that makes it sus­pi­cious, call­ing it inten­tional and not spon­ta­neous. The Bryan Times says …

A Grand Jury in West Vir­ginia this week, indicted two men on mur­der charges, one of them a local man from our area. Charles Free­man of Arch­bold was re-arrested Wednes­day, along with Joseph Metz, of West Vir­ginia, who was re-arrested in Jan­u­ary in con­nec­tion to the 1999 dis­ap­pear­ance of 46 …

A teach­ers union has filed a law­suit on behalf of The Hicksville Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion in Defi­ance County Court against the Hicksville Exempted Vil­lage Board of Edu­ca­tion. The suit, accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, comes fol­low­ing a griev­ance the union filed last August, and con­cerns the board’s alleged unfair actions taken …

Jerry Vernon Van Nortwick, age 80, of Montpelier, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Center in Bryan, where he had been a patient since Sunday. Jerry was a Tool & Die maker, retiring from GM Powertrain in Defiance in 1997. He was a …

The Bryan Water Depart­ment has begun replac­ing the water main on Parkview Avenue. The depart­ment is upgrad­ing the exist­ing 4-inch cast iron pipe to 8-inch main in the 600 to 800 blocks of Parkview Ave. They will also replace the exist­ing fire hydrant and add another one. Accord­ing to the …