A man from Paulding is recovering today from a crash Wednesday morning. 25-year-old Rodney Osbun Jr., at last check was in “good” condition at Parkview Regional Hospital in Fort Wayne. According to the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office, Osbun was driving a Dodge 1500 on U.S. 127, north of Crane Township …

The loss of the River Street Market is devastating to the local community, according to Mayor Ray Delong. He said the fire that destroyed the market caused a “tremendous loss to the community.” He said “a small town without a grocery store is a dying town. It’s a terrible tragedy …

Emma Faye Kammeyer, age 85, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday, January 27, 2016, at Hillside Country Living near Bryan. Faye was a homemaker, a member of Farmer United Methodist Church and had supported the West Unity Church of Christ. She enjoyed spending time with her family, music, gardening …

Par­ents of Defi­ance High School seniors who are plan­ning to major in edu­ca­tion this fall are reminded that schol­ar­ships are avail­able now for the Claude W. Hen­kle or Marie Kauser Memo­r­ial Schol­ar­ship. They are due by March 15th, and are avail­able from the Defi­ance High School coun­selors’ office.

Dona­tions have begun in Napoleon, for the annual Snow­man Cam­paign held by the group Together We Can Make a Dif­fer­ence. The group needs dona­tions of toi­letries and per­sonal care items for fam­i­lies in need in our area. Things like tooth­brushes, tooth­paste, bath soaps and even dia­pers. Dona­tions can be dropped …

In a follow-up to a story we brought you yes­ter­day, two peo­ple have been taken into cus­tody in the rob­bery of The Barn car­ry­out in Defi­ance on Mon­day night. First, the man, 32-year-old Joshua Brown is being charged with the rob­bery. The woman, 29-year-old Sheri Kraegel, was arrested on an …

The num­bers of job­less work­ers in the area last month showed Henry County had the high­est unem­ploy­ment rate at 5.5 per­cent. The Henry County Com­mis­sioner Glenn Miller said that rate stems from the lay­offs at Campbell’s Soup. The low­est job­less rate is for Put­nam County, now at 3.8 percent. Here …

Jennie E. Watson, age 88, of Montpelier, Ohio, died at 8:59 A.M. on Wednesday, January 27, 2016, at Hillside Country Living near Bryan, Ohio, where she was a resident. Mrs. Watson was a 1945 graduate of Edgerton High School and had worked for The Ohio Art Company as a secretary …

Two for­mer Pauld­ing res­i­dents were killed last week­end in a shoot­ing in Florida. The vic­tims were 47-year-old Kevin McGrath, Sr. and 42-year-old Shanna McGrath, his wife. Their bod­ies were found Sat­ur­day morn­ing in Crestview. The woman’s son, 22-year-old Jacob Langston has been charged with their mur­ders. He was shot in …

Evelyn A. Stutler, age 92, of Edon, Ohio, died at 3:06 A.M. on Tuesday, January 26, 2016, at Hillside Country Living near Bryan, Ohio, where she was a resident. Evelyn served the Lord all her life and was a devoted minister’s wife, following her husband, who was a minister with …