The Edgerton Village Council approves the resignation of the water and sewer superintendent there. Brad Fritch’s last day is today, but that won’t cause any problems as the council also approved a contract with Chad Ordway to be the operator of record, temporarily. Ordway was the wastewater operator in Edgerton …

Wednesday’s election filing deadline to qualify for the May 8 primary produced a short list of candidates and issues throughout the Defiance area’s six counties. Commissioner, Ryan Mack and Auditor, Jill Little will each seek a second four-year term. Democrats did not field a candidate in either race. In Henry …

Dorothy “Dot” J. Ragland, 68, of Pioneer, passed away on Friday, February 9, 2018 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center in Defiance. She was born on November 11, 1949 in Hillsdale, MI, to Norman G. “Whitey” Thorp and Margaret Grace (Miller) Thorp. Dot graduated from North Central High School in …

Marion R. Beck, 94 years, of West Unity passed away Thursday, February 8, 2018 in Fulton County Health Center, Wauseon. Marion was born August 31, 1923 in Pryor, Oklahoma, the daughter of the late Ernie and Della (Summers) Nafziger. She was a 1941 graduate of Fayette High School. Marion married …

Luella M. “Kitty” Cobb, 95 years, of Bryan, passed away Thursday, February 8, 2018 at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center, where she was a resident. Kitty was born January 2, 1923 in Paulding, Ohio, the daughter of the late Arthur Ray and Ollie (Lee) Schilt. She married Maurice Yagel on March 22, …

Wesley Harman Strayer, age 54, of Neapolis, died February 3, 2018, at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan, surrounded by his family. Wes was employed as a production mechanic at Ardagh Metal Beverage Inc. in Whitehouse. He was a former Captain of the Providence Township Fire Department and a …

William E. Tanner, age 85, of Fayette, passed away Wednesday morning, February 7, 2018, at the Toledo Hospital. Prior to his retirement he had worked at Crow Aviation in Toledo for 25 years, the Fulton County Airport for 15 years, and five years at Owens-Illinois. Bill was born in Wauseon …

First responders in Dekalb County are dispatched to a vehicle fire on Interstate 69 near the 326-mile marker. The Auburn Fire Department was able to put out the blaze. No one was in the vehicle. The registered owner is being charged with leaving the scene of an accident.

After an eight-month undercover operation, the Multi-Area Narcotics Task Force arrested six northwest Ohio residents on drug charges. Morgan Lucas, Nikita Coleman, Toby Warncke and Dustin Gonzales of Bryan for aggravated trafficking in drugs in the vicinity of a juvenile. Anita Shaneyfelt and Vincent Fell Jr. were also brought in …

Charles Farsht is sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to perform 40 hours of community service for illegally dumping old tires in Lima. Farsht was one of four people charged with illegally transporting and dumping scrap tires to the vacant lot there. Two of the other men, both …