Lois Sue (Hane) Baldwin, age 92, passed away on Friday, November 6, 2015 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. Lois was born in Pioneer, Ohio on December 27, 1922 to John and Foryst (Connelly) Hane. She married Francis Omer Baldwin on January 11, 1942 and he preceded her in death. Lois …

Sandra S. Stahl, 72 years, of Alvordton, passed away Thursday, November 5, 2015 at her home with her family at her side.  Sandra was born May 18, 1943 in Hicksville, Ohio, the daughter of the late Kenneth and Anna (Fortney) Byroade.  She was a 1961 graduate of Hicksville High School.  …

Clifford A. Drewyor, Sr., age 59, of Montpelier, Ohio, died on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, in his home after a brief illness. Mr. Drewyor was a graduate of Edon High School and was employed by C-K Technologies. He was also a member of the Montpelier Eagles. Clifford Alan Drewyor was …

A man from Penn­syl­va­nia was arrested for pos­ses­sion of heroin by Williams County deputies after he was found over­dosed in a room at the Qual­ity Inn in Hol­i­day City. 39 year old Joshua D. Dean of State Col­lege, Penn­syl­va­nia, was revived with Nar­can, and then he was arrested at about …

It took four days of trial, but on Thurs­day it was all over for an Arch­bold man who was found guilty yes­ter­day in Ful­ton County Court, of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter and domes­tic vio­lence. The ver­dicts were returned by the jury against Romualdo Cor­doba Jr after about four hours of delib­er­a­tion. Cor­doba …

A Mont­pe­lier man who is a sus­pect in a Williams County mur­der inves­ti­ga­tion was ordered on Thurs­day after­noon, to be held on a $2 mil­lion bond dur­ing his ini­tial appear­ance in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. 22-year-old Bradly Gilbert waived extra­di­tion last week in Surry County, North Car­olina where he was arrested …

As win­ter gets closer and closer, the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion garage in Mont­pe­lier this year, plans to use some inno­v­a­tive new approaches this year. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, cal­cium chlo­ride will be deployed from one of the district’s 14 trucks if it gets really cold out­side and the …

The num­bers are back, and now we know that voter par­tic­i­pa­tion in this fall’s elec­tion was around 50 per­cent. The fig­ures include those who voted before Tues­day. About half of Defi­ance County’s 24,448 reg­is­tered vot­ers did vote this fall, and in Pauld­ing County, voter turnout was just over 50 per­cent …

Henry C. Wohltmann, Jr, age 91, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 5:05 P.M. on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient. Mr. Wohltmann owned the Bryan News Stand from 1975-1991. He was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of World War II and was a member of New Hope …

Jonathan M Hofner from Wauseon, Ohio passed away suddenly October 10th, 2015. He was born November 7,1986. He was a 2005 graduate of Wauseon High School. He was employed at Alex Products in Ridgeville Corners, OH. He is survived by his two year old son Micheal Hofner, his Mother, Heather …