A key state official visited Defiance Tuesday afternoon to announce the award of more than $700,000 dollars for testing and cleanup of two former factory sites. Lydia Mihalik, director of the Ohio Department of Development, held a meeting in the county commissioners office in Defiance to detail two grants to …

Defiance County’s land bank discussed EPA approval of an environmental agreement on the former SK Hand Tool Corp. property, allowing the cleanup process to proceed. County Commissioner, David Kern…who chaired the land bank board’s monthly meeting…noted that the EPA has approved a report on soil samplings at the site…south of …

Phyllis Ann (Grisier) Reed, 72, of Centerville, passed away surrounded by her family on April 25, 2022 after a courageous battle with kidney disease. Phyllis was born August 17, 1949 in Wauseon, Ohio to the late William F. and Helen L. (Perkins) Grisier. Phyllis is preceded in death by her …

Geneva Irene White, 86, of Montpelier passed away Monday, April 26, 2022 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice.  She was born on September 17, 1935 in Alvordton, Ohio to Gaylord T. and Leona F. (Maneval) Landon.  Irene graduated from Alvordton High School in 1953. Irene was the owner / operator of …

Barbara “Barb” K. Kirkendall, 86, of Pioneer passed away early Monday morning. She was born Barbara Kay Miller on Jan. 31, 1936, in Marshall, Michigan, to George E. and Minerva Catherine (Heer) Miller. She was a 1954 graduate of North Central High School and on July 24 of that year …

Rosalea R. Mick, 90, of Montpelier passed away on Monday, April 25, 2022 at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan.  She was born on April 22, 1932 in Cass County, Indiana to John Park and Lillie Leona (Berkheiser) Britton.  Rosalea graduated in 1950 from Union Mills High School in …

Montpelier Police arrests two suspects…while another remains at large…after a trespassing call…then later a pursuit, on Tuesday. Officers respond to the call at the Family Dollar store on E. Main St. The officer identifies the suspect and a car…which leads to three people at the nearby McDonald’s. While the officer …

Work is underway to repave and improve the parking lot along the 100 block of South Walnut Street that serves downtown Bryan businesses along the east side of the square. The project…estimated at $150,000 dollars…is one example of the kind of ongoing infrastructure work funded by the city of Bryan’s …

More than three times as many people in Williams County are voting early in this primary than in the last mid-term election, in 2018. The ballot for the May 3 primary started the first week of April at the county elections office, on E. High St. Roughly 340 people have …

Jean Ann Guhl, age 75, passed away unexpectedly in her home on April 11, 2022. Prior to her retirement Jean had been a Registered Nurse, having served at Fairlawn Haven Nursing Home in Archbold and also at Northcrest Nursing Home in Napoleon as the Director of Nursing. Jean was born …