Paul Hoverman, executive director of the Van Wert Area Performing Arts Foundation, receives a $5,000 contribution from Craig Bell and Jane Jones, both representing the US Bank Foundation. The generous support provides assistance in securing national acts that will appear on the Niswonger Performing Arts Center stage for the 2013-14 season. The financial support also […]
POSTED: 08/08/13 at 7:14 am. FILED UNDER: News
The Van Wert independent The Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce helped a local family cut the ribbon on its firearms business located in downtown Van Wert. On Wednesday afternoon, Rick Smith and his son, Nathan, cut the ribbon on their business, Smith and Sons Firearms, located on the corner of Main and Market streets […]
POSTED: 08/08/13 at 7:13 am. FILED UNDER: News
Hilda K. McGrath, 98, of Paulding, died Tuesday, August 6, 2013, at the Gardens of Paulding. She was born May 19, 1915, in Paulding County, the daughter of the late Elba and Celia (Grine) Bercaw. On April 30, 1935, she married Leo William McGrath, who preceded her in death on December 27, 2002. Survivors include […]
POSTED: 08/07/13 at 11:25 pm. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
Justin M. Bragg and Kristin N. Bragg to Lori Lynne Boyd, inlot 1276, Van Wert. Ruth Ann Fogle Brickner and R.A. Fogle-Brickner to T. Charles Brickner and Thomas Charles Brickner, inlots 877, 878, Van Wert. Ruth Brickner, Ruth Ann Fogle Brickner and R.A. Fogle-Brickner to Thomas C. Brickner and Thomas Charles Brickner, inlots 950, 951, […]
POSTED: 08/07/13 at 2:34 pm. FILED UNDER: Real Estate Transfers
By Rex Dolby “Vegetables” will be the competition theme in prints and slides when the Wassenberg Camera Club meets in the front gallery, Thursday, August 8, at 7 p.m. at the Wassenberg Art Center. It should be an interesting event, with visitors and potential club members always welcome to attend. The deadline for fair photography […]
POSTED: 08/07/13 at 1:09 pm. FILED UNDER: Camera Club News
By Hope Wallace The main gallery is crammed with people who have signed on to take watercolorist Tom Lynch’s four-day intensive painting workshop. Lynch has the process of creating flowing, well-constructed watercolor down to a science and provides concrete tools and techniques to students who can then use the knowledge in their own work. The […]
POSTED: 08/07/13 at 1:04 pm. FILED UNDER: What's Up at Wassenberg?
DAVE MOSIER/independent editor Tuesday was a busy day for the Van Wert County Board of Commissioners, with meetings on old Community Action Commission business, as well as meetings with a group promoting broadband access in Ohio and one on fiber optic cable installation and a drainage dispute along the Kline Ditch. The commissioners first met […]
POSTED: 08/07/13 at 7:58 am. FILED UNDER: News
Midwest Electric news ST. MARYS — Members of Midwest Electric Inc. recently donated $12,240 to 15 west-central Ohio charities and community projects through the cooperative’s Community Connection Fund. Since the program began in 1998, the Midwest Electric Community Connection Fund has provided $767,423 to 595 area projects. The recent fund recipients include the following: Columbus […]
POSTED: 08/07/13 at 7:54 am. FILED UNDER: News
Family Health Care news Family Health Care’s Board of Directors and Staff have changed the date for its “31” Bag Bingo on being held at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 425 Woodland Ave. in Van Wert. Because of a scheduling conflict, the fundraiser is now scheduled for Tuesday, August 13. Doors open at 5 p.m., […]
POSTED: 08/07/13 at 7:48 am. FILED UNDER: News
Van Wert High School news Van Wert High School has announced the schedule pick-up for the 2013-2014 school year. Seniors will pick up their schedules on Friday, August 16, while juniors can get their schedules on Monday, August 19, sophomores on Tuesday, August 20, and freshmen and new students on Wednesday, August 21, during an […]
POSTED: 08/07/13 at 7:44 am. FILED UNDER: News