DAVE MOSIER/independent editor MIDDLE POINT – State Fire Marshal Larry Flowers was in Van Wert County on Thursday to perform one of his most enjoyable tasks: Give money to volunteer fire departments. Flowers, who began his career as a volunteer firefighter in Licking County, presented checks of $7,040 and $8,100, respectively, to the Middle Point […]
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Stuart Jewett of Be Scene Media (above) promotes Internet marketing to a group of business people listen during Thursday’s Business to Business Expo hosted by the Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds while a Black Swamp Bistro employee (below) prepares food for hungry expo attendees. (Dave Mosier/Van Wert independent)
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ODOT information COLUMBUS — For the second year in a row, Memorial Day has ranked second-deadliest out of the top six major holidays on Ohio’s roads. Of the 2,049 crashes during the 2011 Memorial Day holiday in Ohio, there were 884 injuries and 12 fatalities. “Nobody wants to see their holiday end in tragedy,” said […]
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Jon Amundson, president of the Van Wert County Historical Society, presented the 2012 Isaac Van Wart Business Award to Kacy Wagner, a representative of the Cooper Family Foundation. “The Cooper Family Foundation’s financial support of our museum and many other county institutions has certainly demonstrated the family’s commitment to being a true partner with the […]
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OSU Extension information Dates for livestock identification and weigh-ins have been announced! Exhibitors should read the material carefully as some of the procedures have changed from 2011. For more information, contact the Ohio State University Extension Office at 419.238.1214 or club/chapter leaders. Sheep, Goat & Dairy Feeder Weigh-in will be Saturday, June 2, at the […]
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CONVOY — StateWide Ford Lincoln, Crestview High School and members of the local community raised $4,600 for Crestview’s Knight Pride Club at a recent test-drive event, as part of Ford Motor Company’s “Drive One 4 UR School” program. More than 230 area residents test-drove a Ford vehicle at Crestview High School on April 21, and […]
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Get that fishing gear ready. The annual Peony Festival Fishing Derby is almost here! Thanks to sponsors Thatcher-Kulwicki Insurance and Walmart, this year’s Peony Festival Fishing Derby will be held at Camp Clay on Saturday, June 2, starting at 9 a.m. First-, second- and third-place prizes will be given away in each of three age […]
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Van Wert Police No new reports. Delphos Police May 21, 2 p.m. — Russell Gressner, 40, of Dayton, was charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal damaging, criminal endangering and operating a vehicle while impaired (OVI) as a result of an incident that occurred in the 300 block of Hunt Street.
POSTED: 05/25/12 at 5:04 am. FILED UNDER: Law Enforcement
Patricia L. Shrider, 82, of Rockford, died at 5:50 p.m. Thursday, May 24, 2012, at Colonial Nursing Center in Rockford. She was born September 18, 1929, in Van Wert, the daughter of the late Cloise and Frieda (Keith) Agler. On May 27, 1948, she married Richard G. Shrider, who preceded her in death on January […]
POSTED: 05/24/12 at 7:09 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
DAVE MOSIER/independent editor Four people arrested as part of the Operation Shield law enforcement initiative were arraigned in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, while a Van Wert teenager received a total of three years in prison for a theft spree that took place earlier this year. Arraigned were the following: Taylor Agler, […]
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