Submitted information DEFIANCE — Van Wert’s swim team traveled to Ayersville High School for the Ohio High School Athletic Association Division II sectional tournament on Saturday. Jamie Burenga, Allie Etter, Octavius Tucker, Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker, Travis Francis, Tyra McClain and Gracie Mull earned qualifying times to compete in the district tournament. Girls […]
POSTED: 02/16/21 at 4:47 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
SCOTT TRUXELL/independent sports editor The latest edition of Random Thoughts centers around Van Wert basketball, league and conference championship races and tournament time for girls’ basketball teams and Van Wert bowlers. Kardiac Kids The 1980 Cleveland Browns were coined as the Kardiac Kids because many of their games went right down to the wire. We’re […]
POSTED: 02/16/21 at 4:47 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
Submitted information NWOHIO Basketball Club will have tryouts in early March. Northwest Ohio Basketball Club is an AAU summer traveling basketball team that travels to various NCAA sanctioned tournaments. The club has had over 20 years of success in winning tournaments. Tryouts boys in grades 4-8 will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, March […]
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Submitted information Registration is open for the AYBT Shooting Stars Invitational, March 6 and 7 in Van Wert. Teams are guaranteed four games for just $195. It’s open to any boys or girls teams in grades four, five or six. School teams and All Stars are welcome and awards will go to the top two teams. […]
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Van Wert independent sports Here are this week’s high school basketball broadcast schedules for 99.7 WKSD and WERT 1220AM/104.3FM. All games will air live. The schedules include boys regular season games and girls sectional tournament games. Schedules are subject to change due to weather and/or COVID-19. WKSD Tuesday, February 16 – Paulding at Hicksville (boys) […]
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Another 100-plus year-old Van Wert building is coming down. The former business and apartment building on the northwest corner of Crawford and Market streets was being demolished on Monday morning. The building was built in 1905, a year before the Home Guards Temple Building. photos by Bob Barnes/Van Wert independent
POSTED: 02/15/21 at 11:46 am. FILED UNDER: News
VW independent/submitted information Parent-teacher conferences at Van Wert High School scheduled for Monday have been canceled because of the weather and will be rescheduled for 4:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 23.
POSTED: 02/15/21 at 10:18 am. FILED UNDER: News
VW independent/submitted information With most of an 8-inch snowfall earlier in the month still on the ground, Van Wert County and the surrounding are now looking at a new storm that could be even worse. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the county for a storm that could result in […]
POSTED: 02/15/21 at 12:27 am. FILED UNDER: News
A ribbon-cutting event was held for the Convoy Dollar General store by the Convoy Business Association (CBA). Those shown at the ribbon-cutting include (from the left) CBA President Cindy Harting, Van Wert County Economic Development Director Stacey Adam, Dollar General Store Manager Diana Thomason, Dollar General District Manager Eric Forsyth, and Convoy Village Councilman Vickie […]
POSTED: 02/15/21 at 12:23 am. FILED UNDER: News
VW independent/submitted information As of 8:55 p.m. Sunday, the COVID-19 vaccination clinic scheduled for Monday, February 15, at the Van Wert County Council on Aging will still be held. County General Health District officials will continue to monitor the weather and ask that those scheduled for the clinic monitor social media, online media, and WERT Radio […]
POSTED: 02/15/21 at 12:20 am. FILED UNDER: News