A vehi­cle fire at Green Acres Trailer Court on Ohio 66, destroyed a Jeep and dam­aged a mobile home. It hap­pened Wednes­day morn­ing around 11, and the flames were quickly put out by Defi­ance fire­fight­ers. A woman and child liv­ing in the mobile home were checked out by Defi­ance EMS, …

Bryan Police on Thurs­day evening, arrested 24 year old Kristin Way of Hills­dale, Michi­gan on a charge of Com­plic­ity to Com­mit Theft… or Shoplift­ing. She was taken toCCNO. Police did not release the loca­tion of that arrest or any other details. Also last evening, 25 year old Adam Reese, also …

William E. Mavis, 75 years, of Alvordton, passed away Tuesday, August 25, 2015, in his residence. William was born on September 27, 1939, to the late Robert A.J. and Irene Marie (Stahl) Mavis in Farmer, Ohio. He was a 1957 graduate of Farmer High School. William married Shirley L. Armbruster …

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 …