Protesters held a demonstration against the Dakota Access pipeline yesterday at the Swanton post of the Ohio Highway Patrol. Members of the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition said they want the 37 Ohio Highway Patrol troopers providing security in North Dakota to return from their assignment. Local organizers called the pipeline …

Darlene “Rose” Lands, age 63, of Edgerton, Ohio, passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by family on November 2, 2016. Rose was born February 27, 1953, in London, Ohio to the late Denford Wilson and Mary Caldwell Burgett. Rose was a homemaker and enjoyed spending time with her family …

Lorraine A. Frey, age 94, of Wauseon, passed from this life into the arms of her Lord on November 2, 2016 at Ebeid Hospice Residence in Sylvania, Ohio. She was born on January 30, 1922 in Delta, Ohio to Howard Columbus and Anna Entenmann Vollmer. Lorraine was a 1940 graduate …

Barbara “Ann” Mull Welch, age 80, of Wauseon passed away early Wednesday November 2, 2016 at the Defiance Area Inpatient Care Center surrounded by her family. Prior to her retirement she had worked for the former McCord Corporation in Wauseon for many years. Mrs. Welch was born on July 6, …

The Paulding Education Association (PEA) has filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charge against the Paulding Exempted Village Board of Education, over the board’s lack of action in not filling the district’s librarian position. The charge has been filed by the PEA with the State Employment Relation Board (SERB), as …

Two men are facing felony charges after Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers located fraudulent World Series Tickets in a vehicle during a traffic stop in Wood County. Troopers stopped a 2015 Chevrolet Impala, with Illinois registration, for a lane change violation on Interstate 80 near milepost 69, at 9:31a.m. on …

Defiance City Council considered legislation making some employee position changes to the finance department during its Tuesday night meeting, and also presided as Mayor Mike McCann recognized the county’s long-time sheriff on his approaching retirement. An ordinance concerning the aforementioned changes was let lie along with an unrelated resolution because …

The panel working on putting the state’s new medical marijuana law in place has come up with some rules for sites where marijuana would be grown in Ohio. And the number of proposed growing sites has upset activists who’ve had questions about the new law. The Ohio Department of Commerce’s …

Gene Douglas McDonough, age 64, of Pickerington, Ohio, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, October 28. 2016 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Maumee. Gene was a 1969 graduate of Bassett Senior High School in La Puente, California. He was a graduate of California State University, Fullerton, where he studied geography. He …

James R. Joseph, 74 years, of Bryan, passed away Monday, October 31, 2016 in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Jim was born September 1, 1942, in Fremont, Ohio the son of the late, Charles and Janet (Chapman) Joseph. He was a 1960 graduate of Green Springs High …