The Lincolnview Local Board of Education has scheduled a special meeting for 8 p.m. today in the district conference room. The agenda for the meeting includes an employee resignation.
POSTED: 07/19/12 at 5:29 am. FILED UNDER: News
Van Wert Police No new reports. Delphos Police No new reports.
POSTED: 07/19/12 at 4:42 am. FILED UNDER: Law Enforcement
By Rex Dolby “Military vehicles/patriotic” was the theme for the Wassenberg Camera Club’s competition in prints and slides Thursday, July 12, at the Wassenberg Art Center. Will Hawkins swept the print category with a winning picture of the Statue of Liberty and followed it with an image of flags waving in Rockefeller Center in New York City. […]
POSTED: 07/18/12 at 1:22 pm. FILED UNDER: Camera Club News
By Hope Wallace How many members of the Kardashian family can you name? How many famous artists? If you can name more Kardashians than artists you may want to lift your head out of the sand. What is brain drain? Also know as the hollowing out of America, this phenomenon is common in small communities […]
POSTED: 07/18/12 at 12:59 pm. FILED UNDER: What's Up at Wassenberg?
DAVE MOSIER/independent editor U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary Michael Scuse came to the area to look at drought-damaged crops. It was a sobering experience. “It was worse than what I had anticipated coming out here,” Scuse said while looking at a drought-stunted alfalfa field near Haviland owned by Roy Klopfenstein. “I knew it was […]
POSTED: 07/18/12 at 6:56 am. FILED UNDER: News
Van Wert Police July 14, 9:29 p.m. — Allen D. McMillen, 28, of 14396 Ohio 116 in Van Wert, was charged with obstructing official business after he tried to avoid arrest on a bond violation warrant while at the Comfort Inn, 840 N. Washington St. Officers said McMillen fled but was caught after a brief […]
POSTED: 07/18/12 at 5:38 am. FILED UNDER: Law Enforcement
Information submitted On July 27, the 2012 Miss West Central Ohio Scholarship Pageant will be held at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center in Van Wert. Co-hosted by 2012 Miss Ohio Elissa McCracken and 2009 Miss America Katie Stam, this pageant crowns two young women who advance to the Miss Ohio 2013 Pageant. The show begins […]
POSTED: 07/18/12 at 5:31 am. FILED UNDER: News
Children participating in this year’s Brumback Library Summer Reading Program were entertained Tuesday by a MadCap Puppet Theater production performed on the stage of the Marsh Foundation Auditorium. The story this year was that of Rapunzel. (Dave Mosier/Van Wert independent)
POSTED: 07/18/12 at 5:29 am. FILED UNDER: News
Red Cross information Most every one at some point in their lives will meet someone who has received blood products. “Blood is needed more than you think,” said Sharyn Whitman, CEO for the Indiana-Ohio Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross. “In fact, in the next two seconds, someone in America will need blood.” […]
POSTED: 07/18/12 at 5:19 am. FILED UNDER: News
VWCT information Van Wert Civic Theatre is pleased to announce the first show of its 2012-13 season. Wrong Window! is a tribute to the master of suspense: Alfred Hitchcock. This comedy whodunit is written by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. Directors Mary Ann Falk and Steve Lane will hold auditions on Wednesday, August 1, […]
POSTED: 07/18/12 at 5:18 am. FILED UNDER: News