Richard L. “Dick” Schlueter, age 76, of Quincy, Michigan and formerly of Pettisville, Ohio, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 in his home. Prior to his retirement he had owned and operated, along with his wife “Dee”, the former Dick and Dee’s Photography Studio in Pettisville for over …

Martin Ross LaDuke, age 74, of Edon, Ohio, and formerly of Winston Salem, North Carolina, died at 12:55 P.M. on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at Evergreen Manor Nursing Center, where he was a patient, after a brief illness. Mr. LaDuke was a longtime sales representative to grocery stores for Schwan’s …

Robert William Lambert, age 76, of Ney, Ohio, passed away quickly in the woods, doing what he enjoyed, on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at his residence. Robert retired from Johns Manville in 1999 after 43 years of service. He enjoyed farming, traveling, spending time with family and an occasional game …

Dan Hughes may or may not have bro­ken the law dur­ing his 2012 cam­paign for Williams County Sher­iff, but it all is now irrelavent. Hughes was charged with a cam­paign vio­la­tion in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court a lit­tle more than a month before the Novem­ber 2012 gen­eral elec­tion. The case against …

The Ohio High­way Patrol reports that on Wednes­day after­noon, a trooper clocked a car at 69 miles per hour on US-127. When the trooper tried to stop the car, it turned into a dri­ve­way at a farm on Ohio 15 and a woman bolted from the passenger’s door. The trooper …

Edon Days kicks off tomor­row. It’s the annual sum­mer fes­ti­val in Edon and it will be held tomor­row, Sat­ur­day, and Sun­day. A cruise-in car show will be held tomor­row from 5 to 8 p.m. at Baker Park. At 6:30 p.m., the Lit­tle River Rail­road pas­sen­ger train leaves Edon Co-op for …

A tree cut­ting acci­dent Wednes­day after­noon leaves one man dead. 77 year old Robert Lam­bert of Defi­ance County was killed just after 4 p.m. yes­ter­day while cut­ting a tree near his home. Lam­bert was found by his fam­ily and was declared dead at the scene by the Defi­ance County Coro­ner. …

Fire­fight­ers were called out Wednes­day morn­ing to a fire at a vacant home on Mil­wau­kee Avenue in Defi­ance. Defi­ance Fire Depart­ment arrived on the scene at about 3:30 a.m. yes­ter­day where they received mutual aid by High­land Town­ship and Noble Town­ship fire depart­ments. The house, which was destroyed, will be …

Eleanor Jeanett Chevillot, 87 years, of Hamilton, passed away Sunday, July 28, 2013, at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Eleanor was born January 29, 1926 in DeKalb County, Indiana, the daughter of the late Elmer and Margret (Noragon) Hagerty.  She was a 1944 graduate of Hamilton High School.  Eleanor married Robert …

Bobbie Jo “Jojo” Smith, age 43, of Wauseon, passed away Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Maumee. Jojo had been a supervisor at International Automotive Components (IAC) in Wauseon. She was born in Wauseon on May 3, 1970 the daughter of Bob C. and Diane E. (Ehrsam) …