Two blood dri­ves are being held in Put­nam County this week. One is going on today from noon-6 p.m. at the Glan­dorf Rod and Gun Club on County Road 11 in Ottawa. The sec­ond blood drive will be on Sat­ur­day from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. at Ottawa Chevro­let on N. …

Lonzo Yates, 86 years, of Bryan, passed away Tuesday afternoon, June 25, 2013 at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Lonzo was born on Sunday, March 6, 1927 at his parents’ home in Prater, Virginia.  He was the fifth of 14 children born to George Dewey and Ida (Stiltner) Yates.  Lonzo attended …

Joan Ruth Forbes McWatters, age 83, of Wauseon, died Tuesday evening, June 25, 2013 in Fulton Manor, Wauseon. Arrangements are incomplete. Funeral arrangements entrusted to the Edgar-Grisier Funeral Home, Wauseon, Ohio

Unem­ploy­ment in Williams County is on the rise. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, Williams County unem­ploy­ment increased to 6.7 per­cent in May from 6.6 per­cent in April. Defi­ance County’s rate remained at 6.9 per­cent. Ful­ton County’s rate dropped from 7.9 per­cent in April to 7.4 per­cent in May. Henry County’s …

Vil­lage lead­ers in Hol­gate are look­ing into the pos­si­bil­ity of expand­ing and improv­ing the park at Holgate’s for­mer school site. Ear­lier in the month, plans to replace two dugouts at the park were put on hold so vil­lage offi­cials could take a look at the pos­si­bil­ity of a larger-scale ren­o­va­tion …

Quadco is work­ing with an increas­ing num­ber of indi­vid­u­als with dis­abil­i­ties who want to work in the com­mu­nity and is help­ing more of them find jobs. At a meet­ing held Tues­day, Quadco’s Exec­u­tive Direc­tor told board mem­bers that there is a lot of empha­sis on com­mu­nity employ­ment. He pointed to …

Sev­eral Cub Scout packs and troops will be in area gro­cery stores this com­ing week­end ask­ing for dona­tions of food to local food pantries. Chief Super­mar­kets in Defi­ance and Wauseon will have grab bags avail­able for $5 which will con­tain a tube of tooth­paste, a bot­tle of sham­poo, a can …

An attor­ney for a Put­nam County teen who has been charged with the deaths of two Ottawa broth­ers has filed a motion to exclude media from cov­er­ing the court hear­ing. The court-appointed attor­ney for 17 year old Michael Fay filed a motion in Put­nam County Juve­nile Court to exclude media …

Kaleb W. “K-Bob” McLaughlin, 20, of Pioneer, died early Monday morning as the result of an auto accident in rural Pioneer.  He was born on June 4, 1993, in Defiance, Ohio, to Michael W. McLaughlin and Kim M. (Folk) Oxender.  Kaleb graduated from North Central High School in 2012.  He worked for the …

Mae Rose Marquis, 96 years, of Bryan, passed away Sunday, June 23, 2013 in her residence.  Mae was born January 21, 1917 in Athens, Ohio, the daughter of the late Otto and Millicent (Paget) Rose.  She married John Lee Marquis, Sr., a former Mayor of Bryan, in 1933, and he preceded her …