Arthur W. Follett, 88, of Montpelier, passed away on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at Evergreen Healthcare Center in Montpelier. He was born on July 16, 1935 in Henry County, Ohio to Arthur G. and Mary F. (Parritt) Follett. Arthur graduated from Liberty Center High School in 1953. On May 29, …

Juan Roberto Martinez, age 77, of Bryan Ohio, passed away at 5:20 A.M. on Sunday, November 26, 2023, at Parkview Randallia Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, after an extended illness. Juan (John) was employed as an HR Manager at La Choy/Con Agra foods in Archbold and retired after 44 years …

Voters in most unincorporated areas of Williams County will vote in March on whether they want to allow electric aggregation to be available. The issue will not appear on the ballots for voters in Center and Springfield townships, however, as those areas have previously voted to allow electric aggregation. According …

Officials for the Village of Montpelier put an end to a series of projects spanning decades at the village council’s meeting. The village has been under a long-term control plan through the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for several decades in order to complete combined sewer overflow projects, which separates storm …

Rather than banning the sale and cultivation of adult use cannabis within the city limits, Bryan City Council seems poised to limit those actions. Council previously had two ordinances it was considering that would have banned the sale and cultivation of adult, recreational use marijuana, which was approved earlier this …

Abortion providers and a pregnancy resource center sought a preliminary injunction to broaden the scope of a health or life exception to Indiana’s near-total abortion ban and to expand the sites where the procedures can be performed. The ban outlaws abortion even in cases presenting a serious health risk and …

Ohio’s new constitutional protections for abortion access and other reproductive rights are supposed to take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them. That prospect seems increasingly uncertain. Existing abortion-related lawsuits are moving again through the courts now that voters have decided the issue, raising questions about how …

Galen A. Cornell, age 62, of Edon, Ohio, passed away at 11:37 A.M. on Friday, November 24, 2023, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, after a brief illness.    Mr. Cornell was a 1980 graduate of Edgerton High School and had been employed by Edgerton Forge, retiring …

Luella M. Rockey, 95 of Montpelier, passed away on Thursday, November 23, 2023 surrounded by her family.  She began and ended her journey in the same home that she lived in her entire life.  She was born on May 18, 1928 to Harvey and Clara (Henry) Scott, Sr.  In 1946 …

Frances I. “Fran” Platt, 75, of Hicksville, Ohio, passed away Friday, November 24, 2023, in her residence.  Fran was born March 1, 1948, in Bryan, Ohio, daughter of the late Charles F. and Nora J. (Moore) Koch.  She was a 1966 graduate of Bryan High School, and received an associate …