“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred….minus one day so I never have to live without you.” A.A. Milne. Dane and Marjorie Michael celebrated 71 years of marriage on Thursday, February 6. Later that evening Marjorie passed away in her home surrounded …

Debra Kay Jermeay, 57 years, of West Unity, passed away Thursday, February 6, 2020, at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo.  Deb was born December 20, 1962, in Montpelier, Ohio, the daughter of the late Herbert J. and Pauline (Royer) Miller.  She was a 1980 graduate of Montpelier High School.  …

Russell E. O’Brien, age 87, of Wauseon, passed away Thursday, February 6, 2020, at CHP – Defiance Are Inpatient Hospice. Prior to his retirement he had been a truck driver. Russell was born in Grove City, Illinois on June 8, 1932, the son of Jesse and Irene (Buzzard) O’Brien. On January …

In Paulding County…officers deploy a stop stick to end a high-speed chase. Sunny Parker, of Battle Creek, is charged with felony fleeing and eluding. She was taken to the Paulding County Jail. Officials tell reporters the police tried to pull Parker over for speeding on Highway127, south of Sherwood. The …

A Hicksville burglary leads to an unrelated arrest, with the potential for some drug-related arrests to come. Officers execute a search warrant at a E. Smith Street address, acting on a tip. This, in connection to a theft at a business in Hicksville, over the weekend. They find evidence related …

Area farmers packed Defiance’s Knights of Columbus hall…as state officials roll out a comprehensive government initiative to improve the quality of the Lake Erie watershed. Roughly, 450 attended. The meeting is one of four planned this month throughout northwest Ohio to explain the H2Ohio program that is being funded this …

Construction is approved for a new business coming to Edgerton, soon. Officials say plans to demolish a dilapidated house and a small building on the north side of Vine Street, just west of Ohio 49 are set, to make way for a new locally owned coffee shop, slated to be …

Henry E. Buell, age 83, of Edon, Ohio, passed away at 8:25 A.M. on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, shortly after admittance to Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan after a sudden illness. Mr. Buell was a graduate of Edon High School, where he played baseball, and was a veteran …

Nancy Joan Krumm, 86, of Wauseon entered the Lord’s Kingdom on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, following an extended illness. She was born June 18, 1934, in Canton Ohio, the daughter of the late Michael and Mary Lombardi. In January 1954 Nancy married Edwin Dean Krumm. Our family spent summers camping, …

A sewer backup at a Defiance mobile home park has been remedied, but some final environmental abatement may be needed. Electricity to a sewer lift station at Northtowne Estates, near Northtowne Mall on North Clinton Street, failed and caused the backup. Officials discovered that power had been shut off to …