The Van Wert County Courthouse

Friday, Sep. 26, 2025

By Hope Wallace Multiple programs continue at the Wassenberg Art Center and the paintings continue to arrive at a steady pace for our first 30 x 30 Art Fundraiser. As they parade by it’s impossible to not get excited at the vast array of colors and technique. I for one am going to be hard-pressed […]

POSTED: 05/16/12 at 12:59 pm. FILED UNDER: What's Up at Wassenberg?

POSTED: 05/16/12 at 12:46 pm. FILED UNDER: Lancer Lines

Alvin Willis Waldron and Marilyn Anne Waldron to Pamela S. Good, inlot 462, Convoy, lot 1-7, Convoy subdivision. Elizabeth L. Rose to Derek E. Sterling and Kellie M. Sterling, portion of inlots 859, 858, Delphos. Ralph Wein to Greggory J. Wein, portion of section 30, Tully  Township. Diane M. Clemons, Diane M. Mezuk and Ronald […]

POSTED: 05/16/12 at 12:31 pm. FILED UNDER: Real Estate Transfers

Eloise Finkhousen, 98, of Van Wert, died at 7:12 a.m. Monday, May 14, 2012, at Van Wert County Hospital in Van Wert. She was born November 14, 1913, in Champaign, Ill., the daughter of the late Charles and Chloe (Freeland) Tarlton. On October 15, 1940, she married Lester D. Finkhousen, who preceded her in death […]

POSTED: 05/16/12 at 6:34 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries

Van Wert Police May 12, 7:35 p.m. — Items were reportedly stolen from a garage at a residence in the 2oo block of North Race Street. May 13, 8:17 p.m. — Corey L. Robinson, 33, of 147 Blaine St., was arrested on charges of aggravated menacing and possession of a firearm while under a disability […]

POSTED: 05/16/12 at 6:29 am. FILED UNDER: Law Enforcement

DAVE MOSIER/independent editor The Lincolnview Local Board of Education honored three retiring teachers, approved a final five-year forecast, and learned that bids are being sought for new carpet and paint in several elementary classrooms during its May meeting held Tuesday evening. Superintendent Doug Fries and the board noted that retiring teachers Marilyn Donor, Jeri Lipp […]

POSTED: 05/16/12 at 6:21 am. FILED UNDER: News

Local couple Max and Linda Gamble were named this year’s Senior King and Queen during the Van Wert County Council on Aging’s annual luncheon, held Tuesday at the Council on Aging facility on Fox Road. (Dave Mosier/Van Wert independent)

POSTED: 05/16/12 at 5:26 am. FILED UNDER: News

Marsh Foundation information The Marsh Foundation “Marsh Grown” garden program will hold its spring plant sale on Saturday, May 19, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at The Marsh Foundation greenhouse. All proceeds go to the campus youth garden program. For sale will be beef maestro tomato plants, heirloom Cherokee purple (beefsteak) tomato plants, cucumber plants, wandering […]

POSTED: 05/16/12 at 5:21 am. FILED UNDER: News

The local Veterans of Foreign Wars Men’s Auxiliary presented a check to the YWCA Summer Food Program. Shown are (from the left) Weldon Adkins, Auxiliary senior vice president; YWCA Executive Director Stacy Looser and Tom Hoblet, VFW auxiliary president. (YMCA photo)

POSTED: 05/16/12 at 5:20 am. FILED UNDER: News

Two people appeared for hearings on Tuesday in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. Rodney Walker, 40, of Van Wert, entered a plea of guilty to a reduced charge of attempted trespass in a  habitation, a felony of the fifth degree. He was originally charged with trespass in a habitation, a fourth-degree felony. Walker’s bond […]

POSTED: 05/16/12 at 5:19 am. FILED UNDER: News