Midwest Electric information ST. MARYS – Midwest Electric members recently donated $13,649 to 14 west central Ohio charities and community projects through the cooperative’s Community Connection Fund. Since the program began in 1998, Midwest Electric’s Community Connection Fund has provided $687,042 to 499 area projects. Local charities included in this year’s donations are the 4-H […]
POSTED: 02/03/12 at 6:26 am. FILED UNDER: News
Robert S. Graham, 64, of Rockford, died at 5:55 p.m. Friday, January 27, 2012, at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center. He was born February 9, 1947, in Lima, the son of the late Wilbur and DeVota (Cummins) Graham. On August 23, 1969, he married Carol Baker, who survives in Rockford. Other survivors include […]
POSTED: 02/02/12 at 11:37 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
DAVE MOSIER/independent editor The final member of a trio of vandals accused of destroying a crane and other equipment used for installing wind turbines in July 2011 entered a guilty plea to related charges during a lighter than normal agenda in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday. Cody Edwards, 21, of Saginaw, Texas, […]
POSTED: 02/02/12 at 5:46 am. FILED UNDER: News
Van Wert independent/VWCS information COLUMBUS — The Van Wert High School Robotics Team competed in the Central Ohio FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics competition this past weekend in Columbus. Team members are students enrolled in the Project Lead Way pre-engineering courses, with Van Wert being the first Western Buckeye League school to start a robotics team. […]
POSTED: 02/02/12 at 5:23 am. FILED UNDER: News
Van Wert independent/Red Cross information Students today have more power than they think, and it’s a power that comes from within. By becoming involved with blood donation activities, students from elementary through high school have an opportunity to effect change by helping to save lives. “We want kids to know they can make a huge […]
POSTED: 02/02/12 at 5:11 am. FILED UNDER: News
Van Wert independent/YWCA information The Van Wert YWCA has scheduled its spring travel preview for Sunday, February 26, at 3 p.m. Complete information about this year’s travel schedule will be available during the preview, which is held at the YWCA, 408 E. Main St. in Van Wert. The public is invited to attend this free […]
POSTED: 02/02/12 at 5:08 am. FILED UNDER: News
U.S. News & World Report has given Wright State University’s online master’s in education degree program training teachers to be leaders in the field the No. 1 ranking in faculty credentials and training. Wright State’s score in the magazine’s “Top Online Graduate Education Programs” exceed that of schools such as Syracuse University and the University […]
POSTED: 02/02/12 at 5:06 am. FILED UNDER: Youth
Van Wert Police January 30, 12:39 p.m. — A Grover Hill man reported that his laptop computer was stolen from his car while it was parked in the Towne Center Shopping Center parking lot. January 31, 8:01 p.m. — Dale W. Wright Jr., 19, of 309 E. Main St., Apt. D, was charged with underage […]
POSTED: 02/02/12 at 5:05 am. FILED UNDER: Law Enforcement
Audrey B. Vandemark, 94, of Elida and formerly of Spencerville, died at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at Vancrest Health Care Center in Delphos. She was born May 14, 1917, in Spencerville, the daughter of the late William M. and Mildred (Bowers) Grunden. On November 8, 1934, she married Lawrence E. Vandemark, who preceded […]
POSTED: 02/02/12 at 4:59 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
Lillian G. Kline, 87, of rural Rockford, died at 11:25 a.m. Wednesday, February 1, 2012. She was born September 1, 1924, in Wren, the daughter of the late Ralph Lonice and Mamie Dale (Swartz) Royer. On June 29, 1946, at the Walnut Grove Church in Ohio City, she married D. Wayne Kline, who survives at […]
POSTED: 02/01/12 at 8:47 pm. FILED UNDER: Obituaries