Betty J. Mills, age 87, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 12:32 P.M. on Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at Hillside Country Living near Bryan, where she had been a resident. She had worked at the former Red & White Grocery in Bryan. Betty was a homemaker and a member of …

Josepha Maria (Mitzi) Kuebeck, 92, a resident of Bowling Green, Ohio, and formerly of Wauseon, Ohio, passed away Monday at Claire Bridge Sterling House, Bowling Green. Prior to her death, she was employed with the McCord Corporation in Wauseon. She was an avid hobbyist, enjoying cooking, gardening, knitting and crocheting. …

Michael A. McVey, age 51, of Toledo and formerly of Delta, passed away Monday, April 7, 2014 at St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, after a brief illness. He was a Residential Specialist with Triad Residential Home Systems in Maumee. Michael was born in Aurora, Illinois on May 16, 1962, …

Lewis C. Reifel, 88, of Pioneer passed away early Tuesday morning at the Community Hospitals and Wellness Center in Bryan.  He was born on September 25, 1925 in Pioneer to Charles Marion and Mary Virginia (Laser) Reifel.  Lewis graduated from Pioneer High School in 1943.  He went on to serve his country in …

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege nurs­ing stu­dents are host­ing a free Health Fair tomor­row [THURSDAY] from 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. The event will fea­ture free blood pres­sure screen­ings and derma scan­ner screen­ings to help iden­tify skin can­cer risks. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Repro­duc­tive Health Clinic will be in atten­dance as well. The Health …

Bryan Police say on Tues­day, they arrested 30 year old Joshua L. Singer of S. Lynn St., Bryan, on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ing to appear. He was taken to court. No other infor­ma­tion what­so­ever has been released by Bryan Police regard­ing the orig­i­nal charges …

Ayersville Local Board of Edu­ca­tion mem­bers and admin­is­tra­tors want every­one in the area to learn about a part­ner­ship with the state to fund con­struc­tion of a new pre-K through grade 12 build­ing through the Ohio Facil­i­ties Con­struc­tion Com­mis­sion. The Cres­cent News reports that there will be a ref­er­en­dum on the …

A new mem­ber was sworn in this week dur­ing a meetin of Napoleon City Coun­cil. Jef­frey Comadoll replaces Patrick McCol­ley who announced his res­ig­na­tion from coun­cil last month. In his first meet­ing, a num­ber of leg­isla­tive items were approved regard­ing the cre­ation of two new city posi­tions and the hir­ing …

Sev­eral indict­ments were handed down in Defi­ance County Court… 32 year old Krys­tal Oehler of Arch­bold was indicted for Pos­ses­sion of Cocaine, and Aggra­vated Pos­ses­sion of Drugs. 31 year old Larry Franklin of Ft. Wayne was indicted for Pro­mot­ing Pros­ti­tu­tion after pros­e­cu­tors say Franklin brought a woman to a hotel …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers met for their reg­u­lar meet­ing on Mon­day and approved appro­pri­a­tions and trans­fers in the county bud­get includ­ing: • $10,000 from cap­i­tal assets-machinery and equip­ment to vehi­cle main­te­nance sup­plies. • $1,640 from unap­pro­pri­ated to cap­i­tal assets-furniture and fix­tures. • $25.61 from com­pen­sa­tion and dam­ages to work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion. • …