Katherine J. Williamson, 90 years, of Bryan, passed away Friday, December 6, 2013 at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center, where she had been a resident.  Katherine was born July 10, 1923 in Huntington, West Virginia, the daughter of the late Leonard and Annie (Clark) Hazelett.  She was a graduate of Guyan Valley High School …

Nancy A. Gimson, 65 years, of Pioneer, passed away Saturday, December 7, 2013 at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home.  Nancy was born March 5, 1948 in Bryan, the daughter of the late Theodore and Leota (Rosendaul) Cronk.  She was a graduate of Bryan High School.  She married Virgil E. Gimson, Jr., on March 28, …

Charles J. VanderHorst, Sr., age 91, of Alvordton, Ohio, died at 10:20 P.M. on Thursday, December 5, 2013, at Evergreen Manor Care Center in Montpelier, Ohio, where he was a resident. Mr. VanderHorst attended Libby High School in Toledo, Ohio, and was a veteran of the United States Army, serving …

Leo E. Rickard, 91 years, of Bryan, passed away Thursday, December 5, 2013 at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center, Bryan, Ohio.  Leo was born on October 30, 1922 to Sherman and Floy Rickard at their home in Pioneer, Ohio.  He graduated from Pioneer High School in 1940.  Leo married Bernice L. Welch on December 26, …

A Mont­pe­lier woman is get­ting national atten­tion… from the NRA. Phyl­lis Her­ring­ton has been named recip­i­ent of this year’s Mar­ion P. Ham­mer Woman of Dis­tinc­tion Award by the National Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion. This award is named after the first woman pres­i­dent of the NRA. Her­ring­ton has worked at the Camp Perry …

North­west Town­ship has issued a press release regard­ing snow poli­cies. Accord­ing to the release, only mail­boxes that have actu­ally been hit by a town­ship truck or plow will be repaired or replaced by the town­ship. Repair of mail­boxes dam­aged by fly­ing snow or slush dur­ing plow­ing will be the owner’s …

A pro­posal now being con­sid­ered in Wash­ing­ton which would decrease the amount of ethanol in the nation’s fuel sup­ply has once again heated debates about ethanol across the nation and here in our area too. The Renew­able Fuel Stan­dard was cre­ated under the Energy Pol­icy Act of 2005. In 2007, …

Lib­erty Cen­ter Local Board of Edu­ca­tion will hold a spe­cial meet­ing this evening at 6:30 to decide the site of the pro­posed new pre-kindergarten through grade 12 school. So far, the board’s site dis­cus­sions have cen­tered on two major options — Option Black, a one-story build­ing located on an unde­ter­mined …

Bryan Police report that on Fri­day after­noon, they arrested 42 year old Rod­ney R. Walker and charged him with hav­ing an Open Con­tainer and Dis­or­derly Con­duct. Walker was locked up in CCNO. Also on Fri­day, Bryan Police arrested 18 year old Cia­r­ria Mahaf­fey of Cherry Street in Bryan on a …

It’s gonna be a big week­end in our area for Christ­mas parades… Santa will be in Defi­ance today, in Napoleon’s Christ­mas parade on Sat­ur­day morn­ing and in Hicksville’s parade Sat­ur­day after­noon. Santa is all set to touch­down in down­town Defi­ance this after­noon start­ing at 4 with spe­cial events hap­pen­ing in …