Rosemary “Rose” Wongroski, age 64, of Delta passed away early Wednesday November 18, 2015 at the Defiance Area Inpatient Care Center near Defiance. Prior to her retirement she had been a Teacher’s Aide specializing in mentally and physically handicapped children. Rose was born on September 25, 1951 the daughter of …

Ruth Irene Kowalski, age 84, of Wauseon, passed away on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. Ruth was born in on March 17, 1931, the daughter of Oliver and Emma (Khun) Poorman. On June 27, 1956 she married Stanley Kowalski, and he preceded her in death in …

Bryan Mid­dle School was evac­u­ated Thurs­day after­noon after a bomb threat was found in one of the school’s bath­rooms. Bryan Police, Ohio State Patrol, Williams County Sheriff’s and Bryan Fire depart­ments responded. They would not com­ment on any pos­si­ble sus­pects, or motives. A press release from Bryan City Schools stated …

Just 30 miles north of Bryan, human skele­tal remains were dis­cov­ered near U.S. 127 in Hills­dale County Michi­gan. They were found on prop­erty where con­struc­tion crews were dig­ging in a pile of stone on 127, between Fayette and Hudson. Police brought in anthro­pol­o­gists from Michi­gan State Uni­ver­sity. They deter­mined that …

The Napoleon Area Board of Edu­ca­tion learned that con­struc­tion of the new Napoleon Ele­men­tary School is expected to be fin­ished by the end of Novem­ber, heard dis­cus­sion about options for soc­cer facil­i­ties in the dis­trict and entered into an agree­ment autho­riz­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion Coop­er­a­tive Pur­chas­ing …

Local drug agents arrested a Defi­ance man while exe­cut­ing a search war­rant at his home. 26-year-old Dustin Boroff was booked on heroin charges. 28-year-old Ash­ley Dal­ton was arrested on a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion and pos­ses­sion of heroin. The Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force found heroin and drug para­pher­na­lia in the search. The pair …

A Defi­ance man has been sen­tenced to spend 10 years in prison for drug traf­fick­ing and bur­glary. 26-year-old Andrew Smith pleaded guilty to traf­fick­ing cocaine and sec­ond degree bur­glary in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Judge Joseph Schmenk sen­tenced him to 11 years and ordered Smith pay about $4,300 in restitution.

Pauline “Polly” Ann Racy, 81 years, of Hamilton, passed away Monday, November 16, 2015, at the Laurels of DeKalb, Butler, Indiana. Polly was born on June 19, 1934 in Hamilton, Indiana, daughter of the late Clyde A. and Reba L. (Helms) Rohleder. She was a 1952 graduate of Hamilton High …

Christina R. Kroeckel, 36 years, of Defiance passed away Tuesday, November 17, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, Defiance. Christina was born on August 21, 1979 in Bryan, Ohio to Rick Goldfuss and Cheryl Pollock. She worked as a waitress for several restaurants in Virginia before moving back to …

Kids of all ages will wel­come Santa Claus on the Bryan Square on Black Fri­day at 6:30 p.m. The parade begins at 6 in the Parkview Physi­cians Group park­ing lot, east on High St., south on Main, then around the square toward Bryan High School. The event runs till 9 …