Howard A. “Skeeter” Koch, age 51, died at 6:55 A.M. on Friday, June 26, 2015, in his home. Mr. Koch was formally employed by Chassix in Edon. Howard A. “Skeeter” Koch was born on November 1, 1963, in Bryan, Ohio, the son of Howard A. and Carolyn S. (Lytle) Koch. …

The National Weather Ser­vice has extended Flood Warn­ings for north­east Indi­ana, north­west Ohio and south­ern Michi­gan into this morn­ing after emer­gency man­age­ment reported wide­spread flood­ing across much of the area on Sun­day night. Two to five inches of rain fell on our area Sat­ur­day, which led to wide­spread flood­ing. Major …

Two peo­ple were arrested and taken into cus­tody by Bryan Police recently. It was on Thurs­day that police nabbed 45 year old Michael Walker of Mont­pe­lier, who was arrested on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ing to appear. He was taken to CCNO. Then on Sat­ur­day, …

Local county courts are now bound by last week’s Supreme Court rul­ing on same sex mar­riage, how­ever they may not be able to accom­mo­date same-sex mar­riage license requests right away. For now, the Ohio Pro­bate Judges’ Asso­ci­a­tion has a com­mit­tee that hastily began to review the Supreme Court’s deci­sion before …

Last week’s flood waters have caused a part of the Napoleon Munic­i­pal Golf Course to be closed down. Napoleon Parks and Rec Direc­tor Tony Cot­ter told the Cres­cent News that when the river level rises seven feet or more, it causes flood­ing in the creek run­ning along the west and …

The LaGrange County Sheriff’s Depart­ment is on the hunt for a man who they say failed to reg­is­ter as a sex or vio­lent offender. Accord­ing to their Face­book page, the LaGrange County Sheriff’s Depart­ment is search­ing for 27-year-old Clay­ton Rugg, who is wanted on a war­rant out of LaGrange Cir­cuit …

Williams County is soon get­ting a new pros­e­cu­tor. Kirk Yosick has resigned, effec­tive next Thurs­day, July 2nd. Yosick cites the rea­son for leav­ing as the fact that he will be work­ing as a gen­eral coun­sel for a com­pany in Toledo. His term was set to expire at the end of …

On Sat­ur­day, all res­i­dents of Williams County will receive free admis­sion to the his­toric Sauder Vil­lage as part of Williams County Com­mu­nity Appre­ci­a­tion Day. Free admis­sion is being offered to all Williams County res­i­dents as a way to say thank you for their sup­port. On Williams County Day guests also …

Michael L. Degler, Sr. age 53, of Tedrow, Ohio died early Wednesday morning, June 24, 2015 in his home surrounded by his family. He was born May 21, 1962 in Napoleon, Ohio to Melvin L. and Patsy (Spitler) Degler. He married Peggy Ferreira and she survives. He was a member …

A man has been arrested in con­nec­tion to a bomb threat at Kalida Man­u­fac­tur­ing on Wednes­day. The arrest came fol­low­ing a call that was made to the Put­nam County Sheriff’s Office, yes­ter­day morn­ing, in which the caller said there was a hostage sit­u­a­tion and a bomb at KMI. Upon fur­ther …