A review of whether the State Medical Board of Ohio properly closed about 2,000 complaints, alleging sexual misconduct or impropriety by doctors, is moving much more slowly than initially anticipated. It has been hampered by difficulties in lining up qualified reviewers who are willing to commit substantial time to the …

An Oscar-winning documentary about a glass factory and a photo exhibition on the closing of a General Motors plant are drawing attention to Ohio’s manufacturing legacy and the state of the labor movement. The women behind the projects, filmmaker Julia Reichart and visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier is on view …

Nancy C. Brown, 80 years, of Ney, Ohio passed away Monday, February 17, 2020 at her residence. Nancy was born February 27, 1939 in Fayette, Ohio, the daughter of Forest and Florence (Butler) Lemons. She was a 1957 graduate of Farmer High School. Nancy married Ronald Brown on September 14, …

George Henry Smith, age 93, of Wauseon, passed away Monday evening, February 17, 2020, at CHP – Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. He had worked for Stubnuts and Geene in Adrian for 19 years, had farmed, and had also worked for Dennis’s Potato Farms for many years. George was born in …

A two car crash on Highway 24 at County Road 232 in Paulding County injures five people. Officials tell reporters the victim was taken to a Fort Wayne hospital. Investigators say one vehicle pulled into the path of another at the intersection, causing the collision. The crash briefly closed 24’s …

In 2019, for the second straight year, the total number of incidents the Bryan Fire Department responded to…increased. In fact, the department’s total number of calls was the highest it’s been in more than a decade. Officials say crews were called to 491 total incidents in 2019, up from 451 …

Wauseon native, Storm Humbert is among 12 writers to be honored on April 3 at the 36th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards in Hollywood, Calif. The Writers of the Future writing contest was initiated by Hubbard in 1983. The 428 past winners of the writing contest have published 1,150 …

An old friend leaves us. After a century and more, Rupp Furniture & Mattress is going out of business. Since its beginning in 1908, the store has had as many as seven locations throughout the northwest area, including Archbold, Ridgeville Corners, Wauseon, Stryker, Hicksville, Napoleon and Bryan. The company announced …

Katherine M. “Kay” Teschke, age 95, of Bryan, Ohio passed away Saturday, February 15, 2020 at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was born July 5, 1924 in Bryan, Ohio, the daughter of the late Harvey and Addie (Wickersham) Ball. Kay was a 1942 graduate of Bryan High …

John Schelling, Sr., 79, of Osseo, Michigan passed away Friday morning at Parkview Nursing Center in Edgerton, Ohio.  He was born on November 9, 1940 in Bryan to Fred and Doris (Perkins) Schelling.  John graduated from Bryan High School in 1959.  He married Marilyn Streight and she survives.  John was …