An Edon woman was arrested Tues­day night by Williams County Sheriff’s Deputies. 27 year old Angela Townsend was picked up on a Bryan Munic­i­pal Court bench war­rant for fail­ure to appear in court on an orig­i­nal charge of dri­ving under sus­pen­sion, improper lane change, and expired license plates. Townsend was …

Ohio’s pop­u­la­tion of those 65 and older is grow­ing. Newly released data from the U.S. Cen­sus Bureau shows that the north­west cor­ner of the state is no excep­tion to that find­ing. The lat­est fig­ures show that Defi­ance County’s 65+ pop­u­la­tion grew by 1.8 per­cent between 2010 and 2014 — from …

Arch­bold Area Schools’ super­in­ten­dent will stick around and head up the dis­trict for five more years. A Mon­day night vote by the Arch­bold Area Board of Edu­ca­tion approved a new five-year con­tract for super­in­ten­dent Aaron Rex effec­tive Aug. 1, 2016.

John E. Bacon, age 95, of Bryan, Ohio, and formerly a longtime resident of Fayette, Ohio, died on Monday, July 13, 2015, in his home. Service arrangements are pending with Krill Funeral Service, 860 West Mulberry Street, Bryan.

Patsy Mae Koerner, age 80, of rural Edgerton, Ohio, passed away on Monday, July 13, 2015, at the Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born on January 3, 1935, in Rolla, Missouri, the fifth child of William and Ebba Lukrofka. She was a 1953 graduate of Rolla High School, …

Rita Carol Gaddis, 58 years, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away Monday, July 13, 2015 at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home, Montpelier. Rita was born March 6, 1957 in Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of Roy M. and Sue E. (Kemp) Gaddis. She was a 1975 graduate of Eminence High School. Rita worked …

A Fre­mont man was in Steuben Supe­rior Court on Mon­day, where he pleaded guilty to felony charges of deal­ing in Metham­phet­a­mine. 23-year-old Jere­miah Bates was arrested in April. Bates and 28-year-old co-defendant Christo­pher Hen­kle allegedly sold meth to a con­fi­den­tial infor­mant for $1,050 last Decem­ber. The plea deal reached yes­ter­day, …

An Arch­bold man was in Ful­ton County Court on Mon­day, where he was sen­tenced for his part in a theft. 32 year old Tyler Gray will spend 2 years under com­mu­nity con­trol after plead­ing guilty. Gray was found guilty of steal­ing and then and reselling grain from April of 2013 …

An 18 year old from Bryan is get­ting some­thing very spe­cial from a very spe­cial orga­ni­za­tion. Devin Rum­mell is bat­tling bone can­cer. It was in 2012, after two years of knee pain, that Devin first received his diag­no­sis. The Rum­mels had been tak­ing ATV off-roading trips together with dozens of …

Two peo­ple escaped with only minor injuries when their car rolled over on Sun­day after­noon on Ohio 66, north of Defi­ance. 19 year old Amelia Del­gado of Hol­gate lost con­trol of the vehi­cle Sun­day after­noon just before 1 o’clock, ran into a ditch and then rolled over. Del­gado was treated …