Van Wert independent sports Here are this week’s high school basketball broadcast schedules for 99.7FM WKSD and WERT 1220AM/104.3FM. All games will air live. Please note the schedule is subject to change because of COVID-19. WKSD Monday, December 28 – Hicksville at Antwerp Wednesday – December 30 – Woodlan (IN) at Wayne Trace Saturday, January […]
POSTED: 12/28/20 at 4:52 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
Editor’s note: This week, the Van Wert independent will be publishing its Top 10 stories of 2020. Articles featuring three stories each will be in Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with the top story being published on New Year’s Day. Today’s stories are Nos. 10, 9, and 8. DAVE MOSIER/independent editor Several of 2020’s top stories […]
POSTED: 12/28/20 at 1:55 am. FILED UNDER: News
VW independent/submitted information This year — 2020 — has not been an ordinary year. This meant that businesses and non-profit organizations alike have had to get creative in how they provide services and products. That is also true for The Marsh Foundation Foster Care and Adoption Center in Van Wert. “We have really had to […]
POSTED: 12/28/20 at 1:54 am. FILED UNDER: News
Bee Gee Realty & Auctioneers has pledged $1,500 to the Van Wert County Humane Society’s capital campaign. Shown (front row, from the left) are Humane Society board members Aimee Bassett and Deb Sealscott and realtors Kristi Gamble and Amy Johns; (back row) realtors DD Strickler, Dale Butler, Bill Moore, and Rob Gamble. Others interested in […]
POSTED: 12/28/20 at 1:54 am. FILED UNDER: News
VW independent/submitted information PAULDING — Paulding Putnam Electric (PPEC) members will see a lower electric bill around the holidays. That’s because PPEC’s Board of Trustees recently approved to return $2.2 million to the cooperative’s current and former members. Eligible members will see a credit on their December electric bill. The money is being returned to members in […]
POSTED: 12/26/20 at 12:58 am. FILED UNDER: Business
DAVE MOSIER/independent editor A recent grant of nearly a million dollars awarded to the local Alcohol Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) board will allow for the creation and expansion of innovative programs that focus on the needs of drug addicts. Sandy Goodwin, executive director of the Tri County ADAMHS Board, which provides services […]
POSTED: 12/26/20 at 12:53 am. FILED UNDER: News
Richard Eugene Evans, 90, of Van Wert, passed away at 5:26 p.m. Monday, December 21, 2020, at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Toledo following a brief illness. He was a very devoted and loving husband, father, and grandfather. Richard was born June 3, 1930, in Middle Point, the son of Russell Thomas Evans and Alice […]
POSTED: 12/24/20 at 9:09 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
VW independent/submitted information COLUMBUS — Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted provided the following updates Wednesday on Ohio’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Next vaccination phaseGovernor DeWine announced the goals of Phase 1B of COVID-19 vaccine distribution are to save lives and for schools to be fully open by March 1. “Ohioans […]
POSTED: 12/24/20 at 7:44 am. FILED UNDER: News
DAVE MOSIER/independent editor Four people appeared for criminal hearings in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court this week. Timothy Allerton, 41, of Berrien Springs, Michigan, was sentenced to 15 months in prison on one count of grand theft of a motor vehicle, a felony of the fourth degree; 12 months in prison on a charge […]
POSTED: 12/24/20 at 7:34 am. FILED UNDER: News
To the Editor: I would like to extend a sincere thank you to all of the kind friends and family who sent me birthday cards, called me on the phone, and those who sent the social media messages on my birthday. Thank you also to those who came through on my drive-thru birthday celebration at […]
POSTED: 12/24/20 at 7:30 am. FILED UNDER: Letters to the Editor