Van Wert independent sports/submitted information DEFIANCE — Longtime Crestview High School baseball coach Jim Wharton was inducted into the ACME baseball Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Defiance on Sunday. Wharton, along with fellow inductee and current Lima Shawnee Head baseball coach Chad Spencer were the guests of honor and were joined by friends […]
POSTED: 07/25/18 at 5:54 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
Dozens of youngters in kindergarten through eighth grade have been taking part in this week’s Van Wert Cougar Youth Football camp at Van Wert High School. As shown above, future Cougars are being shown how to properly block defenders. Other drills include passing and catching, kicking, defensive skills and more. Video by Scott Truxell/Van Wert […]
POSTED: 07/25/18 at 5:54 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
Van Wert independent sports DEFIANCE — Bryan defeated two time defending state champion Archbold 3-0 to win the ACME Baseball state championship on Tuesday. It’s Bryan’s first ACME state championship since 1996.
POSTED: 07/25/18 at 5:53 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
SCOTT TRUXELL/independent writer It’s become a summer tradition in Van Wert – the Railroad Heritage Weekend Model Railroad Show and Swap at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds. The event has grown and expanded each year and spokesman Chuck White noted the 2018 show may be the biggest one yet. “We have about 44 vendors and […]
POSTED: 07/25/18 at 5:21 am. FILED UNDER: News
SCOTT TRUXELL/independent writer Van Wert County’s unemployment rate rose from 3.2 percent in May to 4.1 percent in June, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Numbers from ODJFS show Van Wert County had 14,200 people employed last month, while 600 reported being unemployed, an increase of […]
POSTED: 07/25/18 at 5:20 am. FILED UNDER: News
Van Wert independent news The 2018 Ohio State Fair is underway in Columbus and one of the main attractions is this year’s butter sculpture, which honors the 1983 classic movie “A Christmas Story.” Some of the movie was filmed in Ohio. It took sculptors about 400 hours in a 46 degree cooler to create the […]
POSTED: 07/25/18 at 5:20 am. FILED UNDER: News
Submitted information Sometimes opportunities only come along once in a lifetime. In the case of Wee Care Learning Center, that opportunity is here and ready to be realized. Central Mutual Insurance has committed up to $250,000 in matching community funds to be used for the benefit of Wee Care, namely in the form of ongoing […]
POSTED: 07/25/18 at 5:18 am. FILED UNDER: News
Submitted information COLUMBUS — The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) reported on Tuesday that the state’s first human West Nile virus case in 2018, a 71-year-old Lake County man who required hospitalization. So far this year, 20 Ohio counties have reported West Nile virus activity in mosquitoes collected and tested as part of statewide surveillance. […]
POSTED: 07/25/18 at 5:17 am. FILED UNDER: News
Shirley Ann Taylor, 89, of Ohio City, passed away Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born August 28, 1928, in Van Wert, the daughter of Bernice Evelyn (DeWitt) Scarpelli and George Scarpelli, who both preceded her in death. On January 1, 1950, she married Maurice Calvert Taylor, […]
POSTED: 07/24/18 at 3:32 pm. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
Ronald D. Neate, 74, of Van Wert, passed away Saturday, July 21, 2018, at Van Wert Health. He was born January 27, 1944, in Van Wert, the son of Harry T. and Helen L. (Ault) Neate, who both preceded him in death. He was a member of Trinity Friends Church, Moose Lodge 1320 and Elks […]
POSTED: 07/24/18 at 2:31 pm. FILED UNDER: Obituaries