Pauline D. Chambers, age 83, of Stryker, passed away on Sunday, June 14, 2015 at Evergreen Manor in Montpelier. Pauline was born in Defiance on January 24, 1932, the daughter of Barnie and Mary (Stevens-Harsch) Whetstone. Surviving are two sons, Gene Chambers of Stryker, Donald A. Stiver, Jr. of Michigan; …

Three sus­pects are still on the run, but a get­away vehi­cle has been recov­ered fol­low­ing the rob­bery of the Farm­ers State Bank in Ash­ley on Mon­day morn­ing. Accord­ing to the sheriff’s office, the sus­pects entered the bank, dis­played a hand­gun, demanded money from the tellers and got away in a …

Bryan Police made some arrests. Accord­ing to a report issued this morn­ing, 19 year old Dakota McNany of Bryan was arrested Sat­ur­day, and charged with con­sum­ing under­age, and pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana. He was released on his own recog­ni­zance. On Sat­ur­day, 20 year old Justin Antigo of Bryan, was arrested and …

Williams County Com­mis­sioner, 66 year old Al Word, announced Mon­day he will not seek re-election in 2016. Word had been cir­cu­lat­ing nom­i­nat­ing peti­tions and secur­ing sig­na­tures for re-election for the past cou­ple of months. On Mon­day, he sim­ply said he changed his mind. Word then said that he plans to …

It was back in April, that the com­mu­nity of Edon lost its fire depart­ment after a fire in one of the truck bays. No one was injured, but all the fire trucks and nearly all of the gear was destroyed. Now, Com­mu­nity Memo­r­ial Hos­pi­tal of Hicksville is spon­sor­ing a 5K …

Two Michi­gan res­i­dents were injured Mon­day morn­ing in a motor­cy­cle crash on I-69 at the Crooked Lake Exit. It hap­pened yes­ter­day morn­ing around 5:00am when the back tire appar­ently blew out on a motor­cy­cle dri­ven by 46-year-old Robert Lane of Flint, Michi­gan. Lane lost con­trol of the bike, which then …

James Thiel, age 78, of Blakeslee, Ohio, died at 1:05 A.M. on Sunday, June 14, 2015, at Lakeland Nursing Center in Angola, Indiana where he was a patient after a brief illness. Mr. Thiel was a 1954 graduate of Edon High School and was owner and operator of James Thiel …

Pauline N. Alpaugh, 80, of Bryan and formerly of Pioneer passed away late Friday night at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home in Montpelier.  She was born on November 17, 1934 in Putnam County, Ohio to Lewis P. and Bertha S. (Miller) Kirkendall.  On June 9, 1950 she married Dale M. Alpaugh in Alvordton …

A teenage girl left home early last Wednes­day. She hasn’t been seen since. 15 year old Zoe Belle Rhoads was last seen in McClure at her father’s home between 2–2:30 a.m. Wednes­day. She’s described as about 5-foot, three inches tall. Rhoads is a sopho­more Napoleon High School, and although she …

Although Bryan Police have remained very tight lipped about it, we do know that early on Sat­ur­day, they arrested a Bryan man on a drug charge. 19 year old Dakota McNany was charged with pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana. McNany was also charged with under­age con­sump­tion. McNany’s arrest came just after 1am …