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 …

The Cen­tral Local School board voted unan­i­mously approved putting a bond levy and income tax issue on the March 2016 bal­lot for vot­ers to decide. First, the income tax, if approved, would be for 0.25 per­cent on tax­able income of indi­vid­u­als and estates, col­lected over 23 years. Dis­trict offi­cials said …

A mobile home at the Buck Lake camp­ground was destroyed in a fire early yes­ter­day morn­ing. It took fire­fight­ers from the Angola Fire Depart­ment about 20 min­utes to get the fire under con­trol around 1 a.m. The mobile home is a total loss. No word yet on the cause.

The 9th Annual Olde Tyme Hol­i­day Gath­er­ing fea­tur­ing a lighted parade will be held Novem­ber 21. A Crafts and Gifts Show runs from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage School. Down­town, shops and restau­rants will be open. The parade begins at 6 pm, fol­lowed by the Christ­mas …

In news that affects your wal­let, the Williams County Health Depart­ment approved a $1.2 mil­lion bud­get for next year at its reg­u­lar monthly meet­ing. That’s down about $22,000 from this year’s bud­get. Nurs­ing Direc­tor Becky Syn­der told those at the meet­ing that more Hepati­tis C cases among younger peo­ple are …

There’s gonna be a new Sher­iff in town. Dou­glas Engle wants it to be him. The Com­man­der of the Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force for the last 13 years announced this week he wants to be Sher­iff in Defi­ance County. He’s seek­ing the GOP nom­i­na­tion next March.

The Pauld­ing mayor’s race has a new win­ner. After count­ing absen­tee and pro­vi­sional bal­lots, the Board of Elec­tions cer­ti­fied Greg Rein­hart the win­ner by 10 votes.

A blast of cold weather is headed this way. The National Weather Ser­vice says we could get some snow this week­end. Right now, it looks to begin Fri­day night, with a bet­ter chance of snow on Sat­ur­day… and temps drop­ping to below 20 degrees on Sun­day night. Check our web­site …

Helen DeLong, 85, earned her angel wings and passed away peacefully Monday, Nov 16, 2015 surrounded by her loving family.  She is preceded in death by her parents, six brothers, four sisters and her oldest son, Gerald S. Delong. Surviving is the love of her life of 65 years, Gerald E. DeLong. She is also survived by one …