In an effort to bring aware­ness to breast can­cer, Defi­ance High School art stu­dents of Melanie Wil­son and Mandy Keck have banded together to pro­duce “Hope” tiles which will be sold this evening at the high school foot­ball game at Fred J. Brown Sta­dium. The tiles will be sold by …

The Williams County Ele­men­tary Quiz Bowl for grades 5 & 6 was held last night at Hill­top School. The fol­low­ing schools par­tic­i­pated: Bryan Edger­ton Edon Hill­top Mont­pe­lier North Cen­tral Stryker St. Mary St. Patrick Stryker was run­ner –up and Hill­top took home the win­ning trophy.

Ralph L. Krill, age 91, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 4:25 A.M. on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at Vancrest of Antwerp Assisted Living, where he was a resident. Mr. Krill was a 1942 graduate of Edgerton High School and served in the United States Army during World War II. He …

Mary E. Ussery, age 88, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 2:50 P.M. on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance after a brief illness. Mrs. Ussery retired from Stryker Metal Forge. Mary E. Usser was born on July 12, 1927, in Springfield Township near Stryker, …

Joy M. Cagle, age 48, of Bryan, Ohio, died unexpectedly in her home on Saturday, October 17, 2015, after a brief illness. Ms. Cagle grew up in the Northwood, New Hampshire area and graduated from Concord, New Hampshire High School. She enjoyed music and had studied music for some time …

Paul A. Lay  On  October 20, 2015, Paul A. Lay completed the days God had allotted to him.  Paul was born on October 8, 1927 to Rinehart and Laurine (Vetter) Lay.  During World War II, Paul served with the Army, in the Japanese theater where he was instrumental in forming the GI …

Two teens from Angola were arrested by Angola Police and the Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment Wednes­day after­noon, and charged with felony bat­tery. 18-year-old Chance Sheets and 19-year-old Tay­yar Azzan were picked up on East Broad Street in Angols at about 8:00am yes­ter­day, and taken to the Steuben County Jail. The …

An inves­ti­ga­tion is under­way after a worker report­edly died when elec­tro­cuted at a Pauld­ing County busi­ness. The Ohio Occu­pa­tional Safety and Health Admin­is­tra­tion says a worker at Hav­i­land Plas­tic Prod­ucts was elec­tro­cuted in the acci­dent that occured early Mon­day morn­ing. Details have not been made avail­able and the name of …

An Arch­bold man is now fac­ing charges of felo­nious assault and attempted mur­der. 20 year old Pre­ston Klopfen­stein was indicted by a Ful­ton County grand jury. Pros­e­cu­tors allege that on Sept. 23, Klopfen­stein engaged in con­duct that, if suc­cess­ful, would have resulted in the deaths of his mother, Holly Klopfen­stein, …

A Fre­mont High School stu­dent died Tues­day night at Parkview Regional Med­ical Cen­ter from injuries he suf­fered in a tree cut­ting acci­dent. 16-year-old Colin Book, accord­ing to the coroner’s report, died from blunt force trauma. The acci­dent hap­pened around 4:40PM Tues­day near St. Paul’s Catholic Chapel. Book was part of …