Doyle W. Clark, age 81, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, August 11, 2015, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center, where he had been a patient. Doyle was a machinist at The Aro Corporation for 43 years prior to his retirement. He was also a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean …

Patrick H. (Harris) Nerad, age 63, passed away in his North Carolina home on June 15, 2015.  Born on March 17, 1952, in Bryan, Ohio, the 4th child of Elmer C. and Mabel G. Nerad, Patrick was a 1970 graduate of Bryan High School.  Owner and Director of Patrick H. Nerad Fine …

Eight west­ern Ohio coun­ties have been des­ig­nated as nat­ural dis­as­ter areas after months of heavy rain and flood­ing. The des­ig­na­tion, by the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture for But­ler, Darke, Defi­ance, Hamil­ton, Mer­cer, Pauld­ing, Pre­ble and Van Wert coun­ties, means farm­ers in those coun­ties can now seek fed­eral assis­tance includ­ing emer­gency …

Con­ti­nen­tal Vil­lage Coun­cil met this week, and learned of what will likely be a pretty stiff increase in health insur­ance rates for vil­lage employ­ees. Jonathan Fort­man of Fort­man Insur­ance of Ottawa, told coun­cil about a 22.4 per­cent increase in the village’s employee health insur­ance pre­mium through Med­ical Mutual Insur­ance. Cur­rently, …

If you were plan­ning to head to the library today or tomor­row, you bet­ter make alter­nate plans now. All loca­tions of the Williams County Pub­lic Library in Bryan, Edger­ton, Edon, Pio­neer, Stryker and West Unity are closed today and tomor­row for what the library says will be com­puter sys­tem upgrades. …

Lots of new stu­dents will be greeted by new and ren­o­vated build­ings when they arrive on the main Trine cam­pus in Angola for the start of classes on August 24th. School offi­cials there say enroll­ment is expected to go up for a third straight year, with an antic­i­pated 27 per­cent …

Two peo­ple, includ­ing a woman who was wanted in Steuben County, have been arrested fol­low­ing an inci­dent at the Big Turkey Lake pub­lic access site. 26-year-old Jamie Prater of Orland was found stand­ing next to a pickup truck, allegedly involved in a drug trans­ac­tion. Prater was taken into cus­tody, and …

John Timothy ‘Tim” Price, age 55, of Archbold, Ohio and longtime resident, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 6:15 P.M. on Monday, August 10, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, after an illness of several months. Mr. Price was a graduate of Fremont, Ohio High School, attended …

Janette M. Nofzinger, age 82, of Archbold, passed away Monday evening, August 10, 2015 at Fairlawn Haven Nursing Home in Archbold. Many years ago she had worked at the former Lugbill Restaurant in Archbold. She was also a bookkeeper for her husband, Jesse’s, Sohio Gas route, and a school crossing …

Accord­ing to a report in the North­west Sig­nal, Arch­bold head foot­ball coach Bryan Miller is step­ping down as foot­ball coach. Miller says burnout is the rea­son why he chose to quit just 2 1/2 weeks before the start of the reg­u­lar sea­son. Miller’s announce­ment came after the Blue Streaks had …