Betty Ann Champion, age 61, of Edgerton, Ohio, passed away early on Monday, December 21, 2015, in her home. Mrs. Champion attended Bryan High School and had worked as a home health aide as well as an aide in the kitchen at DeKalb Memorial Hospital. A former member of Bryan …

An Edger­ton teacher is being inves­ti­gated for an alleged sex­ual rela­tion­ship with a 15 year old stu­dent while work­ing for Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage Schools. Offi­cials are not nam­ing the teacher yet and it’s unclear if the teacher has been sus­pended pend­ing the out­come of the inves­ti­ga­tion, or has been fired. …

Tox­i­col­ogy reports haven’t come back yet and that’s caus­ing a delay for the man accused of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter, 26-year-old Andrew Marin of Payne. His pre­trial hear­ing has now been resched­uled for a fourth time, while they wait for the results. Mar­tin pleaded not guilty in Sep­tem­ber to invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter, two …

A Delta man was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Ful­ton County Mon­day. The dri­ver, 24-year-old Jacob Bald­win was pro­nounced dead at the scene in the county’s Swan Creek Town­ship, accord­ing to the Ohio High­way Patrol. Bald­win was dri­ving a pickup truck north on Town­ship Road 4–1 near County Road …

Down­town is pretty and all, but the Christ­mas dec­o­ra­tions will be com­ing down on Sun­day so they can get started on the cour­t­house repair project. The exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Bryan Area Cham­ber of Com­merce said that final con­tracts were signed on Mon­day to repair the inside and out­side of …

The March 15th Repub­li­can pri­mary will have two hotly con­tested county com­mis­sioner seats up for elec­tion, with five can­di­dates who want the jobs. One of those can­di­dates will run as an inde­pen­dent, after he indi­cated he will with­draw his Repub­li­can Party peti­tion. Rod­ney Miller has already been approved as the …

A rou­tine traf­fic stop led to the arrest of a dri­ver after the trooper smelled pot. The man, 28-year-old John Lee, is from New York. He was pulled over for speed­ing on the Ohio Turn­pike at Exit 13 on Mon­day morn­ing. As soon as the trooper smelled mar­i­juana, he called …

Elizabeth “Liz” Mihuc, age 92, of Blakeslee, Ohio, died at 10:56 P.M. on Friday, December 18, 2015, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers-Bryan, where she had been a patient. Affectionately known as “Nanny” to her family, Mrs. Mihuc was a hard-working, devoted farm wife who worked alongside her husband on …

Veda K. Thacker, age 70, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 6:44 A.M. on Saturday, December 19, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, after a brief illness. Mrs. Thacker was a graduate of Camden-Frontier High School and had worked at Mohawk Tool in Montpelier, Ohio, until the …

Leona Vernita Shirkey, 98 years, of Bryan, passed away Sunday, December 20, 2015 at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center with her family at her bedside. Leona was born November 11, 1917 in Bryan, Ohio, the daughter of the late Floyd and Ethel (Deck) Impton. She married Clarence “Pete” Shirkey on October 22, …