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Friday, Apr. 19, 2024

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POSTED: 02/26/11 at 4:24 am. FILED UNDER: Law Enforcement

Editor’s note: This is the last article in a three-part series about economic development in the Van Wert community. This article provides a look at the current economic situation and how development officials plan to seize opportunities that arise as the economy improves. DAVE MOSIER/independent editor To area residents burdened with job losses, with unemployment […]

POSTED: 02/26/11 at 4:20 am. FILED UNDER: News

Van Wert independent/contributor content Van Wert County officials are crossing their fingers in hopes that the Federal Emergency Management Agency distributes additional funds to help needy county residents. “Whether Van Wert County will receive FEMA funds or not will be determined by Congress in the next couple of weeks,” states Deb Russell, local FEMA board […]

POSTED: 02/26/11 at 2:21 am. FILED UNDER: News

ANGELA SNYDER/VWCH Patient & Community Relations staff Stop to fill your gas tank and take a close look at the $3.25 per gallon or more.  Look at the ice covered, snow banked roads.  Then take a look at Van Wert County Hospital and know that you may not have to travel to Lima or Fort […]

POSTED: 02/26/11 at 2:20 am. FILED UNDER: News

POSTED: 02/26/11 at 2:15 am. FILED UNDER: News

DAVE MOSIER/independent sports The battles between Van Wert and Shawnee boys’ basketball teams have included some legendary match-ups and some good players. Friday’s game was no exception in the good player category, as the Cougars had to battle perhaps the best player they’ve seen all year: Shawnee’s Trey Howard. While Howard managed to score 36 […]

POSTED: 02/26/11 at 1:52 am. FILED UNDER: Sports

POSTED: 02/26/11 at 1:51 am. FILED UNDER: Sports

POSTED: 02/26/11 at 12:22 am. FILED UNDER: Youth

COLUMBUS – The Ohio Society of CPAs (OSCPA) recommends that Ohio taxpayers take advantage of tax-filing firsts that will allow Ohioans to invest their 2010 tax returns in brand new ways this year. The Ohio Department of Taxation now offers direct deposits of Ohio tax refunds into certain investment accounts as well as checking and […]

POSTED: 02/25/11 at 11:45 pm. FILED UNDER: Business

Peggy L. Fortney, 78, of Convoy, died at 11:53 p.m. Thursday, February 24, 2011, at Adams Memorial Hospital in Decatur, Ind. She was born May 26, 1932, in Culp, Ill., the daughter of the late Cyrus and Lula (Roberts) Cranor. On August 19, 1952, she married Harold B. Fortney, who survives in Convoy. Other survivors […]

POSTED: 02/25/11 at 4:31 pm. FILED UNDER: Obituaries