Flames destroyed a barn in Henry County. The Napoleon Fire Depart­ment was called to the barn fire Wednes­day after­noon just before 5 near Napoleon. Fire crews from Ridgeville Town­ship, Florida, Jew­ell and Mal­inta all pro­vided mutual aid. Hol­gate EMS also assisted. The barn, owned by the Stephen Strange fam­ily, was …

Christopher Michael-Earl McKeen, 8-month-old son of Timothy A.M. McKeen and Penni J. Lett, passed away suddenly at 1:14 A.M. on Monday, June 16, 2014, shortly after admittance to Community Memorial Hospital in Hicksville, Ohio. Christopher Michael-Earl McKeen was born on October 6, 2013, in Defiance, Ohio, and is survived by …

Clifford D. Quimby, Jr. 57 years, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away Tuesday, June 17, 2014 in the emergency room at Wexner Medical Center of The Ohio State University.  Clifford was born July 20, 1956 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the son of the late Clifford D. and Ruth Amy (Nikolson) Quimby, Sr.  He …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil met Tues­day and decided to move for­ward with rate increases at River­side Ceme­tery. Coun­cil on Tues­day, approved an ordi­nance amend­ing cur­rent leg­is­la­tion con­cern­ing Riverside’s fee struc­ture. The River­side ordi­nance passed, 6–1, fol­low­ing a third read­ing. Fol­low­ing council’s action Tues­day, rates for con­tigu­ous River­side Ceme­tery grave lots will …

Com­mu­nity ser­vice is our main goal to include help­ing com­plete projects that rou­tinely get put on the back burner in com­mu­ni­ties,”… That was the state­ment issued by Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Jim Den­nis when describ­ing the two com­mu­nity works pro­grams cur­rently being offered through the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. While cur­rent …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross is ask­ing for more blood donors to help pre­vent a sum­mer short­age. Donors of all blood types are urged to sched­ule an appoint­ment now, espe­cially those with types O neg­a­tive, B neg­a­tive and A neg­a­tive. To encour­age more peo­ple to make time to donate blood before …

Lois Eva (Peters) Fauver, age 83, passed away Monday June 16, 2014 at St Luke Hospital, Maumee, Ohio into the loving arms of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. She was born May 14, 1931 in Haskins, Ohio the fifth of 12 children to Cleo and Mary (Minninger) Peters. In …

Dairy Days is hap­pen­ing right now at his­toric Sauder Vil­lage. The event began yes­ter­day and runs through Sun­day. Dairy Days Cel­e­brates National Dairy Month and the role dairy farm­ing played in the lives of the early pio­neers and the role it plays in our lives today. Sauder Village’s Dairy Days …

You are invited to a big retire­ment party. The Bryan Times this morn­ing is report­ing that William J Mapes… Bill Mapes to most peo­ple, is retir­ing after 30 years of build­ing houses and edu­cat­ing stu­dents. Mapes is retir­ing as senior car­pen­try instruc­tor at Four County Career Cen­ter, and will be …

It’s still on track… The Defi­ance County cour­t­house ren­o­va­tion project is mov­ing for­ward on sched­ule, despite a num­ber of ques­tions raised dur­ing county com­mis­sion­ers’ meet­ing ear­lier this week, and some red tape in secur­ing a tem­po­rary loca­tion for one cour­t­house office. Archi­tects met with com­mis­sion­ers Mon­day for about 90 min­utes …