Margaret Ann (Wiles) Hinzman, age 78, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, near Defiance. Margaret was a Registered Nurse and retired from Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona after 25 years of service. She loved living in Phoenix, but in …

An unusual vis­i­tor showed up on Wednes­day in Bryan. The Green Rush Bus Tour, spon­sored by Respon­si­ble Ohio was in town yes­ter­day. The group is pro-marijuana, and they are behind a pro­posed state con­sti­tu­tional amend­ment ques­tion which will appear on the Novem­ber bal­lot. If passed, “Issue-3″ as it will appear …

On Tues­day night, at the reg­u­lar meet­ing of Defi­ance City Coun­cil, coun­cilmem­bers learned about an inno­v­a­tive traf­fic con­trol device that is being pro­posed for one Defi­ance inter­sec­tion. A round­about was pro­posed by a con­sult­ing firm. Now, the mayor plans to ask coun­cil to approve an appli­ca­tion for an Ohio Depart­ment …

Today, at the ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal in Defi­ance, there will be an infor­ma­tional meet­ing on the pro­posed ET Rover and NEXUS gas pipelines, which if built, would carry “fracked” nat­ural gas from the East Coast of the United States through Ohio and Michi­gan to a sta­tion in Ontario, Canada. …

Unem­ploy­ment in the six-county area was at or below the state aver­age for July. In fact, Put­nam County was one of 10 coun­ties in the state that had an unem­ploy­ment rate at or below 4 per­cent for the month. The low­est rate was 3.3 per­cent in Mer­cer County. Mon­roe County …

Gretchen Elizabeth Mauerhan, age 83, of Edon, Ohio, passed away peacefully at 10:10 P.M. on Monday, August 24, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, with her family at her side, after a brief illness. Born on June 11, 1932, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, she was …

Clarice C. Shininger, 98 years, of Defiance, passed away Tuesday morning, August 25, 2015, at GlennPark of Defiance, where she had been a resident the past four years.  Clarice was born June 1, 1917, in Paulding County, Ohio, the daughter of the late Cyril and Zita (McCarthy) Arend.  She was a 1933 …

An Angola man is headed to prison for decades fol­low­ing his sen­tenc­ing Tues­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. 49-year-old Jef­frey Pep­pler was sen­tenced to 60 years behind bars, for stab­bing his 52-year-old sis­ter Paige to death on Jan­u­ary 3rd. The 60 year sen­tence was the max­i­mum allowed under terms of a …

Romualdo Cor­doba Jr. will stand trial for mur­der in the April 25 shoot­ing death of Joshua McJil­ton but that trial will not be held next month. In Ful­ton County Court on Tues­day, Judge James Bar­ber approved a request for delay dur­ing a pre-trial hear­ing. Now, a two-day jury trial has …

The Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment reports that they are cur­rently inves­ti­gat­ing nearly 17 reports of thefts from vehi­cles. There have also been a num­ber of reports of thefts from vehi­cles in Fre­mont that are being seper­ately inves­ti­gated by Fre­mont Police, all of which have occurred over the past two weeks, …