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 …

Word came down late Tues­day after­noon from The Toledo Police Depart­ment that the death of Brandi Gonyer-Boaston was a homi­cide. The Bryan Times reports that the Lucas County Coroner’s Office offi­cially listed the cause of death as being due to asphyx­i­a­tion, and there­fore, a homi­cide. The body of 28 year …

A new cable chan­nel in Bryan. Bryan Pub­lic Util­i­ties has announced that WGTE is now being car­ried on chan­nel 18 in Bryan. The new chan­nel car­ries arts and crafts shows, along with cook­ing, gar­den­ing, home improve­ment, and travel pro­grams. The Bryan Times reports that the com­mu­ni­ca­tions depart­ment also is adding …

Lib­erty Cen­ter Local Board of Edu­ca­tion met on Mon­day night. Items on the table included dis­cus­sion of future con­struc­tion of a pre-K through 12 school, first quar­ter income tax fig­ures, and calamity days. The sub­ject of calamity days was of par­tic­u­lar inter­est due to the extreme amounts of snow we’ve …

Napoleon coun­cil met on Mon­day and went over plans to han­dle sewer line repairs, and just who will be held respon­si­ble for the cost of those repairs. Coun­cil directed staff to come-up with a writ­ten pro­ce­dure to address the issue, most likely a fund from a monthly charge on sewer …

Longtime Stryker resident, Carey Allgire, age 59, passed away unexpectedly on December 7, 2013. Parents, Cecil and Eunice Allgire preceded him in death. He was survived by many cousins. Carey was a 1973 graduate of Stryker High School. He was a member of the Stryker Methodist Church. He was best …

Edger­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil met Mon­day evening. The meet­ing wasn’t really all that long either accord­ing to the Bryan Times. Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Kevin Brooks told coun­cil that snow removal let­ters have gone out to offend­ing home­own­ers who are not clear­ing their walks. The vil­lage plans to watch that sit­u­a­tion. Plans are …

There’s a lot of snow out there in case you haven’t looked recently. Unfor­tu­nately, we’ve also had a higher than nor­mal num­ber of house fires here in North­west Ohio so far this win­ter. Both are prob­lem­atic, but one we can do some­thing about. Fire­fight­ers say be extra cau­tious with any­thing …