Paul E. Garber, 61, of Montpelier passed away unexpectedly Tuesday evening at home. He was born on May 2, 1954 in Bryan to Atlee Earl and Delma V. (Hartman) Garber. Paul attended Edon High School. On July 19, 1975 he married Shelia M. Dean in Columbia, Ohio and she survives. …

As we get back to a nor­mal work sched­ule, we’re check­ing gas prices on this Mon­day. It’s still below $2 a gal­lon in Ohio. You can fill up at the Valero at S. Union and E. Maple in Bryan for $1.75 a gal­lon. And even more good news today. Bar­ring …

Leever Glass is stay­ing, but the name­sake, Joe Leever, is retir­ing. He told the Cresent-News that after 50 years, he’s ready for phase two of his life, and sold his part of the com­pany to his part­ner for the last 23 years, Toby Nagel. Nagel is keep­ing the long­time Leever …

In Wauseon on Fri­day, a sin­gle SUV crash killed a dri­ver and seri­ously injured her pas­sen­ger. The vic­tim is iden­ti­fied as 42-year-old Irene Saurez of Wauseon. She crashed on Ful­ton County Road 19 Fri­day morn­ing about 7 a.m. Her pas­sen­ger, 42-year-old Jose Ramirez also of Wauseon, was trans­ported in crit­i­cal …

While the rest of the schools in the state wres­tle with allow­ing guns in schools, Hicksville Schools has voted to allow cer­tain indi­vid­u­als to carry con­cealed weapons, and post on the school doors that they will use what­ever force is nec­es­sary to pro­tect stu­dents and staff. School lead­ers say it …

A fire in an apart­ment in Defi­ance yes­ter­day morn­ing did about $20,000 dam­age and the sec­ond floor sus­tained the most dam­age. The fire in the 1200 block of Ayersville Avenue was con­tained to the bed­room on that sec­ond floor. It was called in about 11:30 a.m. Inves­ti­ga­tors are still look­ing …

If you’re going to have a fire in your home, it’s most likely going to come from unat­tended cook­ing. That’s the word from recent analy­sis of fire deaths and injuries in Ohio. Bryan Assis­tant Fire Chief Dou­glas Pool told the Bryan Times there’s a sec­ond com­mon cause of fires. Elec­tri­cal …

Ama­zon is mov­ing for­ward with plans to build a wind farm in Put­nam County, to make elec­tric­ity that will power their com­pany in Ohio. The plan to build 48 new wind tur­bines is slated to begin this spring, and all are expected to be oper­at­ing by early next year. The …

Ten peo­ple have expressed inter­ested and sub­mit­ted their names for con­sid­er­a­tion in fill­ing a Defi­ance City Coun­cil seat that will become vacant next week. At-large Coun­cil­man Mike Ketcham plans to give up his at-large seat to become coun­cil pres­i­dent on Tues­day. He will replace Mike McCann, who was elected mayor …

The Mont­pe­lier Police Chief is warn­ing dri­vers that a two white males have made three traf­fic stops in Fort Wayne, imper­son­at­ing law enforce­ment in an unmarked car. They were “clean cut and preppy” and one wit­ness said they appeared intox­i­cated and iden­ti­fied them­selves as CIA. Dur­ing one inci­dent, the men …