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Christena Lyn Newland, 56, of Montpelier, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 8, 2024 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice in Defiance, Ohio. She was born on April 15, 1967 in Fort Wayne, Indiana to James and Jeanne (Jones) Mudrack. Christena had achieved her associates degree in administration and was currently …
Read More »Laura G. Helf, 70
Laura G. Helf, age 70, of West Unity, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at Evergreen Healthcare Center, Montpelier, Ohio. Laura worked in the offices of several area businesses over the years. She retired from KAMCO in West Unity. She was an animal lover and would take in …
Read More »Doris (Thompson) Eckhardt, 100
Doris Hutchinson Eckhardt (Thompson) passed away peacefully in her sleep on March 7, 2024 in Villa Hills, KY, at the age of 100. Doris was born on September 14, 1924. Born and raised during the great depression, in Pocahontas, AR, she came from dirt poor beginnings. After graduating high school …
Read More »Patricia E. Watson, 73
Patricia E. Watson, age 73, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at Laurels of Defiance, Defiance, Ohio. Following her retirement from Allied Moulded, Patricia worked as a retail clerk at CVS. She was a member of the Bryan Eagles #2233 and the Bryan Loyal Order of …
Read More »Bargainers for union representing workers at Kroger stores in Ohio reach tentative agreement with grocery chain on a contract.
Bargainers for a union representing workers at 38 Kroger stores in Ohio and two other states reached a tentative agreement with the grocery chain on a contract. The announcement comes a week after members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 400 rejected a previous contract offer and …
Read More »Norfolk Southern alone responsible for paying for cleanup after last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio.
Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup after last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio, a federal judge rules. The decision throws out the railroad’s claim that the companies that made chemicals that spilled and owned tank cars that ruptured should share the cost of …
Read More »NTSB updates Congress on East Palestine decisions.
The decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside them after a freight train derailed in Eastern Ohio last year wasn’t justified, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board tells Congress. But she said the key decision-makers who feared those tank cars were going …
Read More »Three-way Republican primary for Senate seat in Ohio.
A fractious, three-way Republican primary for the chance to unseat Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown this November is culminating in Ohio, where candidates are divided more over their pasts than their policy positions. Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno, Secretary of State Frank LaRose and state Sen. Matt Dolan all favor some level …
Read More »Bryan Board of Public Affairs approves request for service to the police department.
The Bryan Board of Public Affairs approves a request for service to the police department, and learned the cause of a small outage. Bryan Police Capt. Jamie Mendez made the request for free service that would allow two new traffic cameras to be installed on city electric poles and draw …
Read More »Ohio University pauses awarding of race-based diversity scholarships.
Ohio University has paused the awarding of race-based diversity scholarships following the Supreme Court’s decision last summer to strike down affirmative action in college admissions. The university, one of Ohio’s largest, with about 20,000 undergraduates at its main campus in Athens, announced its plans in a statement recently by officials …
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