Mendenhall new Lincolnview principal

DAVE MOSIER/independent editor For the second month in a row, Lincolnview Local Board of Education has hired a new principal. In June, the board approved a contract with Robbie Breese as the new Marsh School principal. This month, the board  approved a three-year limited administrative contract for Brad Mendenhall as the new principal of Lincolnview Junior […]

9 arraigned in VW Common Pleas Court

DAVE MOSIER/independent editor Nine people were arraigned on Tuesday as a result of a grand jury session held last Friday in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. Those arraigned included a Van Wert woman ordered held on a $5,000 cash bond after pleading to five felony counts. Ruth Ann Napier-Caldwell, 22, entered not guilty pleas […]

VW Boychoir to conduct summer camp

VW Boychoir information The Van Wert Boychoir will conduct its annual summer camp Tuesday through Thursday, July 29-31. The camp will begin each day at 1 p.m. and end at 4 each afternoon. The camp is open to all boys with unchanged voices (first grade up) and will be held at First United Methodist Church, […]

Record set in unclaimed funds returned

Ohio Dept. of Commerce information COLUMBUS — The Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Unclaimed Funds announced that during fiscal year 2014, a record $74,478,325 of unclaimed funds was returned to Ohioans.  This was a 7.6 percent increase over the previous fiscal year payment of $69.2 million. The average claim was for $1,561.49. Unclaimed funds […]

A history of Community Concert Assoc.

The idea of sharing this information with you came to me as I was preparing content for the soon-to-be Niswonger PAC website.  On our new website, which we hope to unveil sometime next month, we will have a lot of new information for everyone to browse about everything associated with the Niswonger.  One of those […]

Janice Lynn Lipp

Janice Lynn Lipp, 67, of Paulding, died Friday, July 11, 2014, of injuries she received in an automobile accident that occurred in May. She was born January 29, 1947, in Toledo, the daughter of the late Karl and Garland (Ritz) Werling. On December 27, 1969, she married her best friend, Gary Lipp, who survives. Janice […]

Helen B. Oakley

Helen B. “Bonnie” Oakley, 94, of Van Wert, died at 5:04 a.m. Tuesday, July 15, 2014, at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born February 4, 1920, in Van Wert, the daughter of the late Ansel and Emma Louise (Courtney) Fawcett. On August 28, 1940, she married Ferman A. Oakley, who preceded […]

127, Lincoln Hwy yard sales back together

LINDSAY McCOY/for the Van Wert independent Summer is flying by and the month of August is quickly approaching. August brings many exciting opportunities to Van Wert County: the Wrenway Wiffleball Tournament and Van Wert County Fair, for example. But before people can get their fill of these annual events, organizers are arduously preparing for the […]

City Council focus on economic develop.

DAVE MOSIER/independent editor Economic development was the focus of Monday night’s Van Wert City Council meeting as city economic development agencies provided updates on their activities. Cindy Leis and Darlene Myers of the Ohio State University Extension community development program spoke first about their respective activities. Leis first provided statistics from 2013 Business Retention & […]

3 hurt in 2-car Paulding County accident

Ohio State Highway Patrol information PAULDING COUNTY – Three people were injured in a two-car crash that occurred on Ohio 613 in Paulding County. The Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Van Wert Post is investigating a serious injury crash that occurred at 7:20 p.m. Sunday on Ohio 613 between the villages of Oakwood and Melrose. According […]