As you read this column, a busload of Chinese performers will be heading out of town to their next destination. Those of you fortunate enough to have witnessed their show, Cirque Shangai: Bai Xi, were certainly entertained beyond belief! One of the special rewards of this show that many are not aware of is that a […]
POSTED: 03/02/11 at 12:00 am. FILED UNDER: News
The Van Wert Solid Waste District has announced the township recycling schedule for March. The hours for the township drop-off service are from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Residents and businesses can also deliver clean recyclable materials to the recycling drive-thru located at the Van Wert Recycling Center on U.S. 127 (Washington Street, north of U.S. 30). […]
POSTED: 03/01/11 at 11:28 pm. FILED UNDER: News
R. Joan Gauvey, 83, of Payne, died at 3:35 a.m. Friday, February 25, 2011, at Dallas Lamb Foundation Home in Payne. She was born February 21, 1928, in Paulding County, the daughter of the late Clarence and Ana (Parady) Harp. She first married Lloyd Sutton, who died in 1973. She then married Rex T. Gauvey, […]
POSTED: 03/01/11 at 1:52 pm. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
Van Wert Police February 26, 3:01 a.m. — Shane A. Carroll, 20, of 711 E. Main St., was in a lot of trouble as he was first charged with assault in connection with a fight and later with disorderly conduct and obstructing official business when he reportedly got an attitude with police officers investigating the […]
POSTED: 03/01/11 at 5:01 am. FILED UNDER: Law Enforcement
DAVE MOSIER/independent editor Van Wert City Council members aren’t just beating a dead horse when it comes to the request to sell beer at the Van Wert County Regional Airport, they’ve entered it in the Kentucky Derby. After the Airport Authority board voted 4-2 against allowing the sale of beer on the airport grounds, a […]
POSTED: 03/01/11 at 4:53 am. FILED UNDER: News
Investigators from the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, as well as specially trained officers from the Van Wert Police Department, to process a semi tractor-trailer rig believed to a mobile methamphetamine laboratory. Troopers from the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Van Wert Post were the first to suspect that something was not […]
POSTED: 03/01/11 at 3:59 am. FILED UNDER: News
This weekend, St. Mary of the Assumption Church and School will hold their annual fundraising auction. The auction will be held Saturday, March 5, at 5 p.m. in the school gymnasium. Several valuable items will be auctioned off to support St. Mary’s. Greve Chrysler, Dodge & Jeep has donated a red 1999 Chrysler 300M. The […]
POSTED: 03/01/11 at 3:47 am. FILED UNDER: News
Bernice Charlene Huffine, 90, of Hicksville and formerly of Van Wert, died at 5:25 a.m. Sunday, February 27, 2011, at Hicksville Community Memorial Hospital. She was born July 10, 1920, in Spencerville, the daughter of the late James Sylvester and Zelma Miller. She married the Rev. Albert Paul Huffine, who preceded her in death on […]
POSTED: 03/01/11 at 12:30 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
Alice Mae Exline, 88, of Van Wert, died at 8 a.m. Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Van Wert Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born August 30, 1922, in Van Wert County, the daughter of the late Ben and Mary (Reidel) Handwerk. On April 12, 1947, she married Warren Exline, who survives. A daughter, Connie […]
POSTED: 03/01/11 at 12:20 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
Helen Joan McDonough, 75, of Rockford, died suddenly Monday morning, February 28, 2011, at Van Wert County Hospital in Van Wert. She was born June 8, 1935, in Rockford, the daughter of the late Russell and Voyla (Rickard) Fleming. On January 19, 1957, she married James McDonough, who survives in Rockford. Other survivors include two […]
POSTED: 03/01/11 at 12:16 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries