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Utility pole crash leads to charges

An OVI charge faces the man police say drove into a util­ity pole Sun­day evening that caused a power out­age. It hap­pened on Cleve­land Avenue near Ottawa Avenue. 22 year old Jose Alvarado of Napoleon was headed east when he lost con­trol of his car. The util­ity pole was snapped …

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Kathryn Sweebe, 89

Kathryn Eileen Sweebe, 89 years, passed away Saturday, October 17, 2015 at Story Point Assisted Living Facility, Grand Ledge, Michigan.  Eileen was born June 18, 1926 in Bryan, Ohio, the daughter of the late Mark and Edith A. (Harter) McKelvey.  She was a 1944 graduate of Bryan High School and …

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Linda High, 54

Linda M. High, 54 years, formally of Pleasant Lake, Indiana and a current resident of New Haven, Indiana, passed away Friday, October 16, 2015, at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Linda was born November 9, 1960 in Angola, Indiana, the daughter of Roger and Phyllis (Rohrbaugh) Fackler.  She …

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Dwight Moorhead, 71

Dwight J. Moorhead, 71 years, of Bryan, and a former lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, passed away peacefully on Friday, October 16, 2015 in his residence with his wife at his side.  Dwight was born November 3, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of the late Jack and June (Parker) …

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Fred Hinderer, 85

Frederick E. “Fred” Hinderer, age 85, of Wauseon, passed away Friday, October 16, 2015 at the Fulton County Health Center in Wauseon. Prior to his retirement he had worked as a bookkeeper for Zehr and Company in Pettisville for many years. He was a former secretary for the Fulton County …

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Gerald “Scorch” Harrington, 79

Gerald W. “Scorch” Harrington, age 79, of Vero Beach, Florida and formerly of Montpelier passed away Thursday October 15, 2015 in Merritt Island, Florida.  He was born on July 12, 1936 in West Unity, Ohio to Harvey Leonard and Millie Faye (Schlegel) Harrington.  After his mother passed away when he was an …

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Looking for levy to help fix roads and bridges

In Mark Town­ship, Defi­ance County, they need money to fix roads and bridges. Now a 2-mill, five-year levy will be decided on Nov. 3 by town­ship vot­ers. If passed that would gen­er­ate close to 70 tho­suand dol­larrs. For a per­son own­ing a prop­erty val­ued at 50 thou­sand dol­lars, it would …

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Flip of a coin earns man new title

15 mon­u­ments in the Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial Park in Williams County will be replaced after a vote by the Board of Trustees recently. They’ll use 3 inch slabs of gran­ite to give the stones some longe­tiv­ity. Those slabs will have the names of every vet­eran from Willaims County, reports the Bryan …

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Veterans Memorial Park stones to be replaced

15 mon­u­ments in the Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial Park in Williams County will be replaced after a vote by the Board of Trustees recently. They’ll use 3 inch slabs of gran­ite to give the stones some longe­tiv­ity. Those slabs will have the names of every vet­eran from Willaims County, reports the Bryan …

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Boy shot in incident police call accidental

A shoot­ing in Pan­dora Sat­ur­day night left a 17 year old boy dead. Put­nam County Sher­iffs Deputies went to 13915 Road 3 at just past 7pm and found the vic­tim. Police haven’t released the name of the vic­tim but early signs are the shoot­ing was acci­den­tal. No charges have been …

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