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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Fall sports is easily the busiest tine of year for the dedicated sports department here at the Defender, and 2024 was no ...

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

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