Vantage Career Center’s open house on Monday included a tour (above) provided by students in the Junior Builders program, which allows students in building trades classes to shadow Gilbane Construction workers on Vantage’s facilities project. The open house also included information booths (below) representing several area colleges and technical schools, as well as a meal […]
POSTED: 02/07/12 at 3:42 am. FILED UNDER: News
Van Wert independent/OSHP information A year ago troopers were asked one simple question under the Patrol’s new mantra, Trooper Shield: What are you going to do today to contribute to a safer Ohio? And troopers answered. They answered with hard work that translated into increased OVI arrests and drug seizures and a decrease in the […]
POSTED: 02/07/12 at 3:03 am. FILED UNDER: News
Van Wert independent/Crestview information CONVOY — Parents or guardians residing in the Crestview School District having a child 5 years of age on or before August 1 may register the child for kindergarten for the 2012-2013 school year. Parents or guardians requesting open enrollment for their kindergarten student to the Crestview School District should also […]
POSTED: 02/07/12 at 3:01 am. FILED UNDER: News
The following pets are available for adoption through The Animal Protective League: Cats Earl, a 2-year-old male gray tabby; neutered. Pepper, a 7-year-old female; declawed, black and white. A 1-year-old black male. Kittens Penny, a 6-month-old gray and white female. Dogs Fat Boy, a 3-year-old male Husky-German shepherd mix; one brown and one blue eye. […]
POSTED: 02/07/12 at 2:46 am. FILED UNDER: News
HAVILAND — Monday night in freshman boys’ basketball action the Crestview Knights traveled to Wayne Trace to take on the Raiders. Down 6 points at the end of the third quarter the Knights came out strong in the fourth and outscored the Raiders 18-3 in the last stanza to bring home the victory by a […]
POSTED: 02/07/12 at 2:18 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
The Crestview Knights fifth grade basketball team recently traveled to Defiance to participate in the Defiance Roundball Tournament Classic. The Knights beat Tinora in the finals to bring home the championship. Team members are (front row, from the left) Griffin Painter, Josh Gibson, Colten Lautzenheiser, Derek Dealey, Drew Kline; (back row) Javin Etzler, Austin Sheets, Brant Richardson, […]
POSTED: 02/07/12 at 2:17 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
DAVE MOSIER/independent editor Rod Hardesty has spent more than two decades managing other people’s restaurants and bars, but now he’s nearly ready to open his own restaurant in the heart of Van Wert. Hardesty’s new restaurant, Black Swamp Bistro, will be located in what used to be the Stagecoach restaurant and later, the Good Tymes […]
POSTED: 02/06/12 at 6:08 am. FILED UNDER: News
Van Wert independent/OSHP Lima information OTTOVILLE – Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a single-car accident that killed a Rockford teenager late Saturday night. Brianna Coon, 17, a junior whose home school was Parkway, but who attended Vantage Career Center, was killed when her car slid off the road and into a pond on […]
POSTED: 02/06/12 at 5:09 am. FILED UNDER: News
Van Wert independent/contributor content A new Van Wert company, Metals Recycling Technology LLC, announces its grand opening celebration featuring special incentives now through Friday, February 10. During its grand opening week, MRT is offering an extra $10 per ton for steel grades and an extra 5 cents per pound for copper and aluminum, plus free […]
POSTED: 02/06/12 at 5:07 am. FILED UNDER: News
On Wednesday, February 8, Buckeye Youth members and the public are invited to attend and make Valentines to be distributed to disabled veterans at the Veterans Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind. The event will be held from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5803 on Jackson Street (across from the YMCA […]
POSTED: 02/06/12 at 4:57 am. FILED UNDER: News