Frank William Dever Sr., 82, of Manchester passed away peacefully on Friday, January 10, 2025 at the Ohio Valley Hospice of ...

Each week, The People’s Defender will profile an Adams County senior student/athlete so our community and readers can get to ...

There is a foot of melting snow and slush surrounding my home, the Bengals didn’t make the playoffs and I couldn’t be more ...

Naylor, age 93, passed from this earth early in the morning January 10, 2025 at the Legacy Hillsboro Skilled Nursing facility ...

Brenda Lee Staten, 73, of West Union, Ohio, died January 11, 2025 at Clermont Mercy Hospital in Batavia. She was born August 9,1951 in Cherry Fork. She was preceded in death by parents Fred ...

The Adams County Community Foundation recently celebrated its five-year anniversary. The David Worley Memorial Fund is the ...

Each week, The People’s Defender will profile an Adams County senior student/athlete so our community and readers can get to ...

Here in Adams County, there was plenty of news also. Here, in no particular order, are the Defender’s top stories of 2024.

The National High School Sports Record Book, first published by the NFHS in 1979 and now housed online at www.nfhs.org, ...

Save the day at Superheroes Storytime at the Manchester Library on Wednesday, January 15 at 11 a.m. or Thursday, January 16 ...

Meadowview Regional Medical Center rang in 2025 with the year’s first birth. Weighing 7 pounds and 6 ounces and measuring 20 ...

As Winter Storm Blair continues its march across the United States, its effects are being strongly felt in Ohio, especially ...