The plans are com­plete for the Lib­erty Cen­ter new pre-k through 12th grade school build­ing. The archi­tects pre­sented the draw­ings to the Board of Edu­ca­tion dur­ing it’s reg­u­lar meet­ing this week. The school is expected to being tak­ing shape in early spring. The board also accepted the res­ig­na­tion of a …

News from Mont­pe­lier yes­ter­day. The Coun­cil for the vil­lage met in exec­u­tive ses­sion and announced the res­ig­na­tion and retire­ment of Vil­lage Man­ager, Pam Lucas. Her retire­ment is effec­tive July 24.

Richard D. Smith, age 69, of Wauseon, passed away Sunday, January 10, 2016, in his home. Prior to his retirement he had worked at I.A.C. in Wauseon. Richard was born in Henderson, Nevada on June 7, 1946, the son of Kenneth W. and Virginia (Bullis) Smith. On November 19, 1965 …

Orville E. Stevenson, age 86, of Wauseon, was welcomed into his eternal home with Jesus on Monday morning, January 11, 2016, at the Fulton County Health Center in Wauseon. Prior to his retirement in 1989 he had worked for B. A. Miller and Son and Norwalk Truck Lines. Orville was …

Mary J. Gillen, 80, of Montpelier, Ohio passed away suddenly January 10, 2016, in her home. She was born March 16, 1935 in Defiance County, Ohio to John and Mary (Willitzer) Wagner. Mary attended St. Michael’s Ridge School in Defiance, She married Menard J. Gillen on June 30, 1956, and …

Big changes are com­ing to Toledo, where Fiat Chrysler announced yes­ter­day that Chero­kee is leav­ing and pro­duc­tion of a Jeep Pick up truck will replace it. Employ­ment is expected to remain the same. This comes after Jeep’s Wran­gler shat­tered all pre­vi­ous sales records last year. The new Jeep pick up …

The Defi­ance County Board of Elec­tions said good­bye to Joanna Diehl, who stepped down from her posi­tion on Decem­ber 31st. The 81-year-old Demo­c­rat fin­ished her sec­ond 4-year term. Pre­vi­ously, she served for seven years as the direc­tor of the county’s board of elec­tions office in the 1980s, and at one …

Two Bryan men were sworn in to be mem­bers of the Williams County Regional Air­port Author­ity Board yes­ter­day. Aaron Her­man and Bert Blalock took the oath of office, admin­is­tered by County Com­mis­sion Pres­i­dent Brian Davis. The air­port board is work­ing on get­ting more fund­ing to con­tinue their recent expan­sion. The …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office is cred­it­ing state grants with help­ing reduce traf­fic fatal­i­ties and alcohol-related crashes in the county. Accord­ing to the lat­est sta­tis­tics, both were down by more than half in the last quar­ter of last year. Sher­iff Steve Towns says the grants help pay over­time for deputies …

Earl Mahlon Husted, age 80, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 6:45 A.M. on Saturday, January 9, 2016, at Laurels of DeKalb Nursing Center in Butler, Indiana, after a brief illness. Mr. Husted was employed as a welder with Challenge-Cook Brothers in Bryan from 1959-1974 and drove semi throughout the Bryan …