Montpelier’s 2014 bud­get is now a done deal. Mem­bers of the Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage coun­cil sus­pended the sec­ond read­ing and passed the 2014 appro­pri­a­tion bud­get at Monday’s meet­ing. Total appro­pri­a­tions for 2014 amounts to $17,307,863 (from $14,994,668 in 2013). Garbage pickup the week of Thanks­giv­ing is as fol­lows… Those who nor­mally …

One vote really can make a dif­fer­ence… Accord­ing to a release by school offi­cials, a recount Mon­day morn­ing showed that the Millcreek-West Unity Local Schools safety and secu­rity levy failed by a sin­gle vote. The final vote count came in at 355 for and 356 against the levy. The school …

Faith shines through… Paris­hon­ers of St. Bar­bara Catholic Church in Cloverdale showed up Sun­day morn­ing with fold­ing chairs and a bor­rowed instru­ment for an emo­tional first Mass fol­low­ing the tor­nado that destroyed much of the vil­lage of Cloverdale on Novem­ber 17th, includ­ing their church. The storm left sev­eral homes in …

The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office says a 28-year-old Angola woman was crit­i­cally injured Sun­day when her car rear-ended a semi and became lodged under the truck’s trailer on Inter­state 69 near the Angola exit. The crash, which closed the high­way for three hours, hap­pened when the semi, dri­ven by 23-year-old …

A fed­eral Con­gres­sional bill is in the works to offer finan­cial incen­tives to states to stock­pile epi­neph­rine at schools. Epi­neph­rine is used for severe aller­gic reac­tions to food aller­gies and insect bites — the type of reac­tion that can cause death in an aller­gic per­son. Epi­neph­rine is given to the …

Marjorie Miller, age 95, of Edon, Ohio, died at 11:00 P.M. on Saturday, November 23, 2013, in her home, surrounded by her family. Mrs. Miller was a 1936 graduate of Milford High School in Milford, Illinois. A farm wife, she had also worked in accounting at Essex Wire in Fort …

Robert Lee Bertke, 68, of Pioneer passed away Friday evening surrounded by his family at his home.  He was born on February 2, 1945, in Celina, Ohio to Ralph F. and Ellen “Annie” (Wenning) Bertke.  Robert graduated from Marion Local High School in 1963 and then earned his Mechanical / Drafting degree …

Norman E. Clock, age 95, of Bryan, Ohio, and a longtime winter resident of Hollywood, Florida, died on Thursday, November 21, 2013, at Genesis HealthCare in Bryan, Ohio. Mr. Clock was a partner in Lester’s Diner and worked in the casting department working on 42 major films. Among his survivors …

Bryan Police say that on Sun­day, they arrested 25 year old Kyle I. Fields of 1120 Buf­falo Rd, Bryan. Police say Fields was stopped after run­ning through a stop sign. He was then arrested for OVI, and then released.

A Hav­i­land man is dead after being involved in a one-vehicle crash Thurs­day. The Ohio High­way Patrol says 63 year old Tim­o­thy Palte died Fri­day of injuries he received in the craxh on Ohio 613 near Pauld­ing County Road 95 last Thurs­day after­noon around 5 o’clock. Police say Palte’s vehi­cle …