Kenneth W. Drittler, age 75, of Archbold, passed away Wednesday, February 19, 2014 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. Prior to his retirement he had been a long haul trucker for the former Tem-Cole in McClure for 22 years and then Gerken Paving in Napoleon for eight years. Kenneth was born …

Vernie A. Faunce, Jr., fought courageously over the past nine months, having lost his battle with cancer early Wednesday morning at the Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center.  Vernie was surrounded by his loved ones when he passed; he was 79.  Vernie was a Montpelier resident for all of his life, he was …

We’ve had sub-zero tem­per­a­tures. We’ve had near record, or in some cases, record snow­fall. Now, the win­ter weather that just keeps com­ing is toss­ing another thing at us. The National Weather Ser­vice is now pre­dict­ing tem­per­a­tures to hit 50-degrees or bet­ter today. That’s good news if you want to warm …

Here come the com­put­ers! The Millcreek-West Unity Board of Edu­ca­tion on Tues­day approved an agree­ment to pro­vide some com­put­ers for stu­dents. The dis­trict agreed to get 300 Chrome­books, enough for every stu­dent in grades 7–12. The total amount of the lease is $94,291, with the first year being paid through …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil met on Tues­day night. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, a Defi­ance munic­i­pal ordi­nance that is the sub­ject of a law­suit filed by the Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union on behalf of a local group was amended at that meet­ing. The suit is pend­ing in the U.S. North­ern Dis­trict …

Flames heav­ily dam­aged a rural Angola home on Mon­day after­noon. Fire­fight­ers say when they arrived, they saw heavy smoke com­ing out of the roof. They also say heavy winds ham­pered fire­fight­ing efforts. No other details have been made avail­able and no dam­age esti­mate has yet been given. Also, no word …

The Henry County Com­mis­sion­ers have receive an update on the project planned for improve­ments to the heat­ing, ven­ti­la­tion and air con­di­tion­ing sys­tem at the county cour­t­house. Palmer Con­ser­va­tion told the com­mis­sion­ers that project will begin on March 10th, and should be fin­ished about one month later. The improve­ments should make …

Eleanor Lee (Leininger) Zimmerman, age 97, passed away Tuesday February 18. 2014 at the Lutheran Home in Napoleon. Mrs. Zimmerman was born on October 26, 1916 in Chicago, IL the daughter of the late Dr. Otto and the late Elnora Elda Leininger. She was baptized in the Lutheran faith on …

Henry J. “June” Pape, Jr, age 92, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 6:47 P.M. on Monday, February 17, 2014, in his home, surrounded by his family, after an extended illness. Mr. Pape was a 1940 graduate of Archbold (Ohio) High School and entered the United States Army, serving during World …

Orma Lee Koeppe, age 84, of Evansport, passed away Tuesday morning, February 18, 2014 at Community Hospitals and Wellness Center in Bryan. Prior to her retirement in 1985 she had worked at Campbell Soup in Napoleon for 20 years. Orma was born in Defiance on August 2, 1929, the daughter …