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Thursday, Mar. 28, 2024

The Van Wert Rotary Club enjoyed special entertainment during its weekly meeting on October 16, as students from the Crestview High School drama department performed song and dance selections from their upcoming production, A Year with Frog and Toad. Under the direction of Danille Hancock, 10 students performed as a group and then featured individual […]

POSTED: 10/30/12 at 5:51 am. FILED UNDER: News

Information submitted Bee Gee Realty, along with The Salvation Army and Northwest Ohio Community Action Commission, is taking donations for “Coats for Kids”. There are donation barrels in the following locations: Bee Gee Realty, 122 N. Washington St.; NOCAC office in the County Annex building; YWCA and at the Main Street Market.  Coats for Kinds […]

POSTED: 10/30/12 at 5:46 am. FILED UNDER: News

Information submitted REYNOLDSBURG — The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) announces the Dangerous and Restricted Animals Advisory Board will meet for the first time on Wednesday, October 31, at 9 a.m. at the Ohio Department of Agriculture’s Bromfield Administration Building, Auditorium A & B, 8995 E. Main St. in Reynoldsburg. The purpose of the meeting […]

POSTED: 10/30/12 at 5:46 am. FILED UNDER: News

Cougar golf information The Van Wert golf team recently met to review and celebrate a very successful season. The highlights for the Cougars included winning two invitationals, sweeping both the Western Buckeye League regular season and the tournament to take a league leading 10th title in its history. The Cougars also won the 12-team sectional […]

POSTED: 10/30/12 at 5:37 am. FILED UNDER: Sports

Elks information Van Wert Elks Lodge 1197 wants to remind all boys and girls ages 8-13 of the upcoming Hoop Shoot Free Throw Contest, which will be held this Saturday, November 3, at the S.F. Goedde Building (old high school) on West Crawford Street in Van Wert.  Boys’ registration will be held at 8:30 a.m. […]

POSTED: 10/30/12 at 5:35 am. FILED UNDER: Sports

Van Wert Police October 28, 8:24 p.m. — Dakota Hesler, 16, a resident of The Marsh Foundation, was arrested on charges of criminal trespass and theft after she ran away from the Marsh and was found riding a bicycle she allegedly stole off a porch of a residence in the 100 block of Boyd Avenue. […]

POSTED: 10/30/12 at 5:08 am. FILED UNDER: Law Enforcement

Jean E. Stuart of Paulding died Saturday, October 27, 2012, at the Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born January 17, 1927, in Paulding, the daughter of the late John C. and Nettie L. (Ankney) Deisler. Survivors include two sons, Daniel (Cindy) Stuart of Fort Wayne, Ind., and Thomas (Kelli) Stuart of Leo, Ind.; […]

POSTED: 10/29/12 at 8:37 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries

DAVE MOSIER/independent editor This year’s Harvest Moon Festival downtown included some great memories for the many local residents who remember seeing (or being) one of Judy Geary’s Halloween “creatures.” With some good-natured prodding from Larry Mengerink of Mengerink’s Source for Sports, Geary refurbished a number of the amazing costumes she began making more than four […]

POSTED: 10/29/12 at 7:57 am. FILED UNDER: News

Van Wert independent sports Five local runners will be heading to the state track meet in Hebron this coming Saturday after qualifying during regional track meets held at Tiffin’s Hedges Boyar Park this past weekend. Van Wert High School will be sending four runners to the state track meet following the Division II regional track […]

POSTED: 10/29/12 at 6:58 am. FILED UNDER: Sports

BARB THOMPSON/special to The Van Wert independent Van Wert High School’s Drama Club is fast-approaching the time for its autumn stage production and feels that, this year, the VWHS actors would like to do things a little differently. They’ve decided to familiarize their faithful theatre-going fanson what they can actually look forward to in mid-November, […]

POSTED: 10/29/12 at 6:34 am. FILED UNDER: News