Montpelier Village Council approves two bids for upgrades to the Randolph Street Pump Station. The project will take all the sanitary sewage from the south side of the railroad tracks and push it out to the wastewater treatment plant. $402 thousand dollars in all, for the project. Peterson Construction and …

The body of a missing 18-year-old boater is found at Hamilton Lake in Steuben County. Crews searched for Mason Shuey of Ottawa. Indiana conservation officers are investigating the incident. Responders searched the lake in the area the boater was last seen using SONAR, aircraft, divers, and search and rescue dogs. …

Gov., DeWine should be impeached over his handling of the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Cincinnati Rep. John Becker, a conservative GOP House lawmaker, says he has drafted 10 articles of impeachment against the first-term governor, in an effort currently backed by two other conservative House lawmakers. Becker accuses …

Pauline Lenore Oxenrider, 94 years, of Bryan, passed away Sunday evening, August 23, 2020, at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home, Montpelier.  She was the widow of Jack A. Oxenrider, who preceded her in death on February 1, 2019. Arrangements are pending with Oberlin-Turnbull Funeral Home, 206 North Lynn Street, Bryan, Ohio.  …

Carol Ann Pilarski, age 84, of Stryker, Ohio, passed away on Monday, August 24, 2020, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance. Over the years Carol worked at the Bryan Nursing Home, Custom Cleaners and Hillside Country Living. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Bryan …

Vern H. Hootman, age 85, of Edgerton, Ohio, passed away at 12:10 A.M. on Friday, August 21, 2020, in his home after a brief illness.  Mr. Hootman was a 1952 graduate of Edgerton High School and had been employed by Dana Corporation in Auburn, Indiana, as a machine repairman, retiring …

Betty L. Bostater Clark, 90 years, of West Unity, Ohio peacefully passed away Monday, August 24, 2020 at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice Center, Defiance. Betty was born March 24, 1930, the daughter of the late Glenn and Milbert (Mosier) Phelps. She was a 1948 graduate of Huntsville High School, …

Susie Irene Phillips, 97 years, of Hicksville, passed away Friday, August 21, 2020 at Hickory Creek at Hicksville. Susie was born June 25, 1923 in Mark Center, Ohio, the youngest daughter of the late George Walter and Bessie (Ostrander) Rohn. She was a 1939 graduate of Mark Center High School …

Ohio Attorney General, Dave Yost praises Bryan police for their efforts in the prison sentence for Leslie Tietje. The Napoleon man was indicted on sex crimes by a Williams County grand jury in April. He was arrested the next day in Indiana. Bryan police started their investigation after Tietje was …

Williams County deputies get their man. We reported officers were on the lookout for Timothy Heinze back in July. This, after he eluded officers in a car chase through Steuben County. The pursuit began when they tried to serve a felony warrant on Heinze in Nettle Lake. After the chase …