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Daryl Vollmar, 58

Daryl Lee Vollmar, age 58, of Nettle Lake, died on Friday, September 18, 2015, at the University of Toledo Medical Center in Toledo. Daryl was a collector of Harley-Davidson and NASCAR items and was a proud member of AA, with 18 months being clean and sober. Daryl Lee Vollmar was …

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Richard “Dick” Caulkins, 89

Richard M. “Dick” Caulkins, age 89, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 6:20 A.M. on Saturday, September 19, 2015, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center. He was a graduate of West Unity High School and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the South Pacific. Dick retired as a truck …

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Fire Victim’s Name Revealed

The name of the woman who died on Wednes­day after being injured last Tues­day in a fire in Defi­ance was released over the week­end. 48 year old Penel­lopie Wit­tig died Wednes­day at Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter in Toledo where she had been taken by air ambu­lance from Mercy Defi­ance …

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Lightning Strike Sets House Ablaze

A house fire over the week­end in Defi­ance that was said to have been caused by light­ning left three peo­ple with­out a roof over their heads. It hap­pened early Sat­ur­day morn­ing, around 5AM, and when fire crews arrived, the fire was dis­cov­ered in the attic of the house on Hop­kins …

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Meth Lab Discovered In Auburn

A sus­pi­cious object turned up in down­town Auburn on Fri­day morn­ing, and it was found to have con­tained metham­phet­a­mine related items. Auburn Police say it was a brown suit­case that was found sit­ting close to a build­ing in the 100 block of West 5th Street. That suit­case turned out to …

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Defiance Sheriff Chooses Not To Run Again For Health Reasons

68 year old Defi­ance County Sher­iff David Westrick has announced that he will not seek re-election because of health con­cerns. Westrick has ser­aved for more than three decades. He suf­fered a mild heart attack ear­lier this year and says he has also been diag­nosed with Parkinson’s dis­ease. Westrick is cur­rently …

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Daisy Hall, 80

Daisy D. Hall, age 80, of Wauseon passed away late Monday September 14, 2015 at Fulton Manor in Wauseon. Prior to her retirement she had worked at Perfection Finishers in Wauseon for many years. Mrs. Hall was born on November 22, 1934 in Monroe, Michigan the daughter of the late …

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Jennie Kralicek, 90

Jennie V. Kralicek, age 90, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 8:20 A.M. on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, at Bowling Green Manor, Bowling Green, Ohio, where she was a resident. She attended school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and worked at the hospital in Logansport, Indiana, and for a doctor’s office in Indianapolis, …

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Auburn Man Caught With Drugs In Vehicle

The inves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues fol­low­ing the arrest of an Auburn man after Auburn Police found ille­gal drugs and pos­si­ble drug related and stolen items in his vehi­cle. 23-year-old Bran­don Robert­son was stopped for dri­ving on a sus­pended dri­vers license. Robert­son was also wanted out of Noble County for Fail­ure to Appear, …

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Bryan Fountain Vandalized

A van­dal­ism com­plaint at One Cour­t­house Square led deputies to find that some­one had carved grafit­tie on the rim of the foun­tain there. The graf­fiti referred, in graphic detail, to the 1946 mur­der of Emily Aber­nathy, who was mur­dered by James R. Engle in the base­ment of the Williams County …

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