Deborah A. Rupp, 61, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and formerly Edgerton, Ohio, died on October 15, 2013, in Fort Wayne. She worked for several area businesses. Deb was born on December 22, 1951, in Bryan, Ohio, to Donald and Barbara (March) Rupp and is survived by her brother, Ricky Rupp. …

Bryan Police report sev­eral arrests over the week­end… On Sat­ur­day, 21 year old Korey RJ Cook of Toledo was arrested for Lit­ter­ing. He was released. On Sat­ur­day 30 year old Thomas H. Munger, Jr of Mont­pe­lier was arrested for Pos­ses­sion of Mar­i­juana and Pos­ses­sion of Drug Para­pher­na­lia. He was released. …

The Defi­ance Lions Club’s 68th annual Hal­loween parade is set for Oct. 26, with the pro­ces­sion kick­ing off at 7 p.m. from Tri­an­gle Park. This year’s grand mar­shal will be Har­riet Steel, RN, com­mu­nity health coor­di­na­tor with the Defi­ance County Health Depart­ment. Thou­sands of north­west Ohio res­i­dents will line Clin­ton …

Two con­struc­tion work­ers were badly hurt when the hydraulic lift they were inside was hit by a tractor-trailer on Inter­state 69. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment says the work­ers were on the lift under­neath a bridge over the high­way near Angola when it was hit. The semi dri­ver told police …

The Ohio High­way Patrol says three peo­ple were injured, at least one of them seri­ously, when a car and a pickup col­lided at an inter­sec­tion in Defi­ance County’s Wash­ing­ton Town­ship Sat­ur­day. 22 year old Dar­ius Peter­son of Defi­ance, the dri­ver of the car, and 68 year old Earl Polter of …

Josephine L. Brinck, 93 years, of Sherwood, passed away Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at Hickory Creek of Hicksville.  Jose was born July 27, 1920 in Defiance, Ohio the daughter of the late Theodore A. and Emma (Woodcock) Michael.  She was a 1937 graduate of Defiance High School.  She married Adolph C. Brinck on …

Fire offi­cials say it was a com­bi­na­tion of fast think­ing and old plas­ter that saved a farm house on County Road F Thurs­day morn­ing after a space heater set cur­tains in that house on fire. Fire fight­ers say the fam­ily liv­ing there had smoke detec­tors and they worked. The peo­ple …

Inves­ti­ga­tors say a Defi­ance woman was crit­i­cally injured Tues­day morn­ing while try­ing to res­cue her pets from a three-alarm house fire. Donna Cole­man, of 101 Hill Ave. in Defi­ance, was taken to Mercy Defi­ance Hos­pi­tal, then trans­ferred to the Mercy Saint Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter in Toledo, where as of yes­ter­day, …

The North­east­ern Local Schools is ask­ing vot­ers to approve a levy that they say would help the dis­trict reverse two years of deficit spend­ing. The 2.95-mill, five-year prop­erty tax levy for oper­at­ing expenses will be decided by those going to the polls on Nov. 5, and would gen­er­ate approx­i­mately $650,000 …

The Defi­ance County Chap­ter of the Amer­i­can Red Cross is hold­ing a blood drive today. The drive is being held from 9 till 2 at the Fairview High School in the gym on U.S. 127 in Sher­wood. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800-RED-CROSS.