Crews from Gerken Paving of Napoleon, this week are finishing up the first of three paving projects in Bryan. Streets on the mend include Townline Road and portions of Beech, Lynn, Walnut, Maple and Butler streets in the city center. The cost is estimated at about $479,000 and is part …

A single issue, and no candidates, is on the county’s May 4 primary ballot. What is it?…a five-year, 3.8-mill additional levy for North Central Local Schools. If approved, it will raise $420,000 annually. The goal is to avoid an operating deficit. Only voters in North Central Schools’ five precincts….Pioneer village…Bridgewater …

The pretrial hearing for Thomas Smith, the Toledo man accused of stabbing a Montpelier woman to death in February 2020…has been pushed back for the eighth time. Smith’s pretrial conference in Lucas County…is now rescheduled for June 1. In March 2020, Smith pled not guilty to murder and more. He …

A deadly crash in Swanton Township, near Toledo Express Airport. Officials tell reporters a pickup, driven by 51-year-old Robert Murphy of Toledo, was stopped westbound at a traffic light in the right lane on Airport Highway at Terminal Parkway. Then…an SUV, driven by 69-year-old Vickie Luchini of Swanton, approaches…westbound on …

A Fort Wayne man dies when his SUV runs into the back of a trash truck on C.R. 68, in DeKalb County. Officials tell reporters the truck was parked in front of a home…as its driver…was out dumping a trash bin. Nicholas Chambers rear-ended it…he is instantly killed. A passenger…Philip …

A Columbia City woman is killed…when her vehicle goes into the path of a dump truck, along S.R. 3, at Waits Road, in Kendallville. They say Shelby McClellan was driving east on Waits…with two young children…when she failed to yield the right of way to the dump truck traveling north, …

Ohio’s legislative leaders are negotiating a potentially fast-moving constitutional amendment…that would allow September deadlines for making state political maps to be extended…because of pandemic-related delays in the 2020 Census.

Virginia “Ginnie” L. McMillen, 60, of Montpelier passed away Tuesday morning at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home in Montpelier.  She was born on November 17, 1960 in Fremont, Ohio to Richard and Barbara (Craig) Heichel.  Ginnie graduated from Clyde High School IN 1979.  On September 10, 2011 she married Reed James …

Randy L. Sweet, 61, of Hicksville, Ohio passed away on Monday, April 26, 2021 at Community Memorial Hospital – Hicksville.  Randy was born on February 2, 1960 in Hicksville, Ohio, the son of Wayne and Martha (Timbrook) Sweet.  He was a 1979 graduate of Hicksville High School and attended Four …

Nira M. Thiel, age 87, of Edgerton, Ohio, passed away at 4:55 A.M. on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, after an extended illness. Mrs. Thiel was a 1951graduate of Antwerp High School and was employed as a secretary by The Aro Corporation in Bryan and Fleetwood Industries in Edgerton and then …