Seven of the eight potential championship foes for Rowles are ranked as well. The favorites to come out of the bottom half of ...

McIntosh of Portland, Lisa (Matt) Rudy of Babcock Ranch, Florida, Robert (Jinnie) Vance of Yorktown and Lana (Melvin) Hilty ...

Richard “Rick” Shirk, age 67, a former resident of Portland, passed away on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Charlotte, Michigan.

Lee scored 29 points to propel the Jay County Junior High eighth-grade boys basketball team to a 54-38 victory over the Hagerstown Tigers. The triumph improved the Patriots to a perfect 13-0 on the ...

Page after page was flipped, coffee was sipped, and the Christmas morning clock ticked along effortlessly. “Got it,” she said. And she was right. Our visitor was an Eastern towhee, a lovely, ...

Portland Board of Zoning Appeals approved a use variance request Tuesday for Randy and Karla Hopkins to operate the business out of their property at 863 S. 100 East. The board had jurisdiction over ...

Max Cervantes (center) performs as Billy Flynn along with the company of the national tour of “CHICAGO.” The tour will visit ...

Norman W. Alig, age 89, of St. Anthony, Ohio, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, at the Gardens at St. Henry.

Glen (Bud) L. Finch, age 89, passed away on Friday, Jan. 9, at Persimmon Ridge Healthcare in Portland, Indiana. He was born ...

County officials have withdrawn support for the project over the course of the last month, beginning with Jay County Council voting to “pull the plug” — inform consulting firm Rundell, Ernstberger and ...

Donald Earl Stafford Jr., age 57, a resident of Pennville, passed away on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, at the Marion VA Hospital in ...

Joan Raina Ruth, age 54, of Ridgeville passed away on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in St. Vincent Hospital in Winchester. She was ...