Ohio Department of Agriculture Director David Daniels (left) talks with Mark Hiegel of Cooper Farms during a tour Thursday of the Van Wert plant on U.S. 127. Daniels visited the local Cooked Meats plant and also toured Cooper Farms’ Hatchery and Feed and Animal Production facility as part of a celebration of Ohio Agriculture Week. (photo […]
POSTED: 03/14/14 at 6:00 am. FILED UNDER: News
ANNA RUSSELL/for the Van Wert independent Don’t Drink the Water, a farce written by Woody Allen in the 1960s and set behind the Iron Curtain, remains delightfully fresh today due to television shows such as FX’s “The Americans” and the current events in the Ukraine. The play takes place at an American Embassy during the […]
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American Red Cross information Get rooted in the Red Cross this spring. Donate blood and platelets and become part of its ever-growing family tree; joining about 3.3 million blood donors nationwide in a lifesaving cause. According to Tracy Fox, Communications Manager for the American Red Cross Indiana-Ohio Blood Services Region, “Every two seconds someone in […]
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The Peony Festival Committee is in search of nominations of women to honor as 2014 “Flowers in Full Bloom”. Van Wert County residents can nominate a special woman in their life or in the community that exemplifies the best in character, service, and dedication. Nominees must be at least 65 years of age and live […]
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Van Wert SWCD information The Van Wert Soil and Water Conservation District has extended its deadline to order tree seedlings until Friday, March 28. Species available include American arborvitae, Austrian pine, Colorado blue spruce, eastern red cedar, eastern white pine, Norway spruce, arrowwood, bald cypress, black chokeberry, common lilac, forsythia, pin oak, red maple, sawtooth […]
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Marjorie Helen Riley, 86, of Ohio City, died at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born March 12, 1928, in Van Wert, the daughter of the late Isaac and Amy (Carr) Pearson. On October 29, 1948, she married Ralph H. Riley, who survives in Ohio […]
POSTED: 03/13/14 at 5:32 pm. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
Mary E. Boroff, 98, of Rockford, died Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born January 20, 1916, in Ohio City, the daughter of the late Charles and Mary (Moore) Clouse. On December 5, 1933, she married Forrest Boroff, who preceded her in death on September 10, 1991. […]
POSTED: 03/13/14 at 5:32 pm. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
Van Wert independent Van Wert County residents could have thought spring had sprung with temperatures near 60 on Tuesday, but Mother Nature threw a monkey wrench into that thought Wednesday with yet another snowfall and fa bout of frigid temperatures. The temperature went from the 50s to the 20s as seven more inches of snow […]
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Van Wert Fire Captain Craig King was honored during Monday’s Van Wert City Council meeting for saving the life of a choking child while attending a training session in Boardman. King performed the Heimlich Manuever on the 4-year-old girl, who was in a vehicle in front of King’s vehicle. Here, Mayor Don Farmer congratulates King […]
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DAVE MOSIER/independent editor Ten people were arraigned and four sentenced in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday. Among those arraigned was Dirk Russell, 34, of Van Wert, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of corrupting another with drugs, a felony of the second degree. Russell was ordered held on a $10,000 cash […]
POSTED: 03/13/14 at 7:42 am. FILED UNDER: News