Donald D. Ray, age 88, of West Unity, Ohio, died at 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday, December 15, 2015, shortly after admittance to Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan, Ohio, after becoming ill while returning home from shopping with his family. Mr. Ray served in the United States Navy and …

Mary Jane Schrock, age 80, of Wauseon passed away Wednesday December 16, 2015 in her home. Prior to her retirement she had worked as a Registered Nurse at the Fulton County Health Center in Wauseon for more than 20 years. Arrangements are pending at the Edgar-Grisier Funeral Home.

Defi­ance City Schools super­in­ten­dent Mike Stru­ble held a sec­ond com­mu­nity pre­sen­ta­tion at Defi­ance Com­mu­nity Audi­to­rium. The topic was edu­ca­tion. Stru­ble went over pre­lim­i­nary results of the state report card, the finan­cial sta­tus of the dis­trict and the progress of construction. Prin­ci­pals have received only pre­lim­i­nary results for the 2014–15 school …

A BOLO alert, “Be on the Look­out”, was sent to Stryker and Spring­field Town­ship res­i­dents though the county’s Alert86 instant mes­sag­ing sys­tem. Many of the mes­sages got through, but oth­ers didn’t. Accord­ing to the direc­tor of the Williams County Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency Dawn Bald­win, the record­ing went to land­lines but …

If you’re dream­ing of a White Christ­mas, you may want to stay in bed. That pesky El Nino is keep­ing warm air over us and the National Weather Ser­vice says Santa will prob­a­bly need an umbrella, with rain pos­si­ble. In fact, the week before Christ­mas, at this point, the temps …

The Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs mem­ber Al Horn has retired. The 93-year-old com­mu­nity leader has served on the board since his appoint­ment in 2004. And Horn is going out on top. This year he was inducted into the Ohio Senior Cit­i­zens Hall of Fame in May. Then he was …

In other news, a Fort Wayne man was for­mally charged with drug offenses in Steuben County Mag­is­trates Court after he was arrested Fri­day. 61-year-old John Lin­ton Bar­ringer, Jr. is fac­ing a felony drug deal­ing and a mis­de­meanor traf­fic charge. Police found him asleep in an idling pickup truck that a …

At the new Napoleon Ele­men­tary school, there seems there was a mix-up. Super­in­ten­dent Dr. Steve Fogo changed the way the traf­fic will come onto the grounds and drop off stu­dents. And he appar­ently neglected to tell the city, which had approved other plans. The city noticed that the traf­fic flow …

Kevin Michael Raker, 52 years, of Defiance, passed away Tuesday, December 15, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice Center, Defiance. Kevin was born on December 10, 1963 in Bryan, Ohio, the son of Richard L. and Joan (Justinger) Raker. He was a 1982 graduate of Fairview High School. Kevin …

A Napoleon city com­mit­tee is say­ing no to poul­try in the city. They’ve rec­om­mended that coun­cil not allow res­i­dents to own poul­try over con­cerns of noise, avian flu, waste, and hav­ing only one employee to enforce the zon­ing code. Other con­cerns included not want­ing to attract preda­tors like foxes and …