Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter board mem­bers heaped praise on Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Bruce Abell dur­ing his annual per­for­mance appraisal last week. Board Pres­i­dent Barb Heer said the board plans to renew his con­tract for another year. The reg­u­lar monthly meet­ing of the Quadco board was held on Fri­day. It was orig­i­nally sched­uled …

Ralph Russell McClellan, age 95, of Butler, Indiana, died at 5:45 P.M. on Saturday, January 25, 2014, at Laurels of DeKalb, in Butler, where he was a resident after two-weeks in Community Memorial Hospital in Hicksville, Ohio. Prior to that, he was a resident at Dream Haven, in Edgerton, Ohio, …

Harriette G. Carey, age 94, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Monday, January 27, 2014, at her daughter’s home in Cecil, Ohio. Mrs. Carey retired from The Aro Corporation’s custodial services department. She was a woman of deep faith and enjoyed gardening. Harriette was born on April 21, 1919, in …

Roger L. Kime, age 66, of Bryan, died on Monday, January 27, 2014, at Community Health and Wellness Centers-Bryan shortly after admittance. Roger had been a machinist at The Aro Corporation, retiring after 35 years of service. After his retirement he worked for a time at Precision Metal in Defiance …

Defi­ance Police are call­ing it a case of shaken baby syn­drome. Now, a Defi­ance man is behind bars, and police say he’s respon­si­ble for the death of a five month old girl. 29 year old James Cooper has been charged with first degree felony mur­der. Cooper is being held at …

Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage Coun­cil met on Mon­day and inter­viewed two appli­cants for a vacant coun­cil seat. Fol­low­ing those inter­views, Dan Willis, who has served on the vil­lage coun­cil in the past, was appointed and sworn in. Mont­pe­lier Coun­cil then moved on to other items of busi­ness Mon­day night. Kurt Roan was …

Details will be unveiled on Thurs­day evening involv­ing the Ohio Depart­ment of Transportation’s plans for rebuild­ing I-75’s U.S. 224 inter­change in Find­lay. Miller Broth­ers Con­struc­tion of Arch­bold is sched­uled to start work next month on the $10.6 mil­lion state con­tract. The 6 p.m. pub­lic meet­ing tomor­row will be held in …

Henry County Com­mis­sion­ers say they may be closer to a res­o­lu­tion involv­ing a good chunk of change that is owed to the county. Com­mis­sion­ers signed a pay-back agree­ment with Peter Colaraffi of Revenge Designs, to set­tle a loan of just over $300,000 that was tied to a project that never …

Don’t try this at home… Author­i­ties say an Indi­ana man set his house on fire… while using a blow torch to remove spi­der webs. Fire­fight­ers were called out for a fire reported to be in the walls of a home in rural DeKalb County. The home­owner told fire crew mem­bers …

A five year old child is dead and now, a Defi­ance man has been arrested and charged with mur­der. Defi­ance Police were called to Cor­win Street in Defi­ance just after 7 Fri­day night on a report of a child not breath­ing. The five-month-old baby was taken to Defi­ance Regional Med­ical …