Now that the third annual Henry County elec­tron­ics recy­cling roundup is his­tory, offi­cials there say 32 tons of elec­tronic recy­clables were turned-in on April 5th. The drive also raised money for the local schools. Napoleon high school col­lected over 18,000 pounds of elec­tron­ics, which gen­er­ated over $1,300, along with the …

A school bus acci­dent Mon­day morn­ing resulted in minor injuries, but police say it’s lucky no one was hurt more seri­ously. The Bryan Times reports twenty stu­dents were on Millcreek-West Unity Local Schools bus no. 5 yes­ter­day morn­ing when a car ran into the back of the bus. At least …

A new orga­ni­za­tion is form­ing in Ful­ton County with the aim of improv­ing the econ­omy. The Ful­ton County Com­mu­nity Improve­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (FCIC) announced last week that it is explor­ing the cre­ation of a private/public part­ner­ship orga­ni­za­tion that would fos­ter eco­nomic devel­op­ment through­out Ful­ton county. County offi­cials say that pri­vate busi­nesses …

The Ful­ton County Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict now is tak­ing orders for the annual fish fin­ger­ling dis­tri­b­u­tion pro­gram. The dead­line to order is May 9. Pick-up is May 13 at the Ful­ton County Fair­grounds in Wauseon. Once all orders are received, cus­tomers will be noti­fied of their pick-up time. …

Lomont Hold­ings Co, which does busi­ness as Illu­mi­nated Image, and is a whole­sale sup­plier for retail sign com­pa­nies, announced plans on Mon­day to expand its oper­a­tions in Angola, cre­at­ing up to 20 new jobs by 2017. The com­pany will invest $1.1 mil­lion to lease, ren­o­vate and equip its cur­rent 50,000 …

Area fire­fight­ers were called out Mon­day to a fire at stor­age units at the Ful­ton County Air­port near Wauseon. Accord­ing to the Sheriff’s Office, the call came in around 9:20 yes­ter­day morn­ing. Wauseon fire­fight­ers were assisted by the Delta, Arch­bold, and Lyons fire depart­ments, and quickly got the flames under …

Mary C. Hoene, 100 years, of Bryan, passed away Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014 at Genesis Health Care-Bryan Center, after a brief illness, with her family at her side.  Mary was born February 6, 1914 in Effingham, Illinois, the daughter of the late Herman and Catherine (Bloemer) Dust.  She married Adolph Hoene …

Dennis L. Rummel, age 53, of Edon, Ohio, died at 3:55 A.M. on Sunday, April 20, 2014, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan, where he was a patient, from injuries sustained in a traffic accident in 2008. Mr. Rummel was a 1978 graduate of Montpelier High School and was employed as a tool …

Clifford D. Quimby, Sr. 81 years, of Montpelier, passed away Thursday, April 17, 2014 at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home, Montpelier.  Clifford was born December 6, 1932 in Decatur, Illinois, the son of the late Harry L. and Celesta Shafer.  He married Ruth A. Nicholson on June 20, 1953 in Angola, Indiana, and …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross is ask­ing for your help. They are des­per­ately in need of blood donors. Accord­ing to infor­ma­tion pro­vided by the Red Cross, each day, patients across the United States need an aver­age of 44,000 units of red blood cells. That’s about 16-million dona­tions. A num­ber of blood …