Van Wert independent sports The Monday Mailbag will return next Monday, April 19. In the meantime, if you have a sports question or comment for the next edition, please send it via email to sports@thewvwindependent.com.
POSTED: 04/12/21 at 8:18 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
Staff and submitted information With the success of 2020 efforts, local residents Nick and Val Steyer are again asking the Van Wert County community to help members of Navajo tribes living on a reservation near Tuba City, Arizona. Last summer, Val Steyer saw a “Today” show segment showing the poverty that highlighted the poverty of […]
POSTED: 04/11/21 at 11:19 pm. FILED UNDER: News
Staff and submitted information CONVOY — Van Wert County Emergency Management Director Rick McCoy will speak at the Convoy Opera House on Sunday, April 18, starting at 2 p.m. McCoy will be speaking on being “Tornado Ready” to help Van Wert County residents be prepared as the county approaches the tornado season. He will share […]
POSTED: 04/11/21 at 11:15 pm. FILED UNDER: News
Submitted information COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost called on Twitter, eBay, and Shopify to act immediately to prevent people from selling fraudulent CDC vaccination cards on their platforms. “Fraudulent vaccine cards simply don’t have a place in the marketplace,” Yost said. “Vaccines are more readily available across Ohio than ever before – don’t […]
POSTED: 04/11/21 at 11:14 pm. FILED UNDER: News
Staff and submitted information LIMA — The following construction projects are anticipated to affect highways in Van Wert County this week. All outlined work is weather permitting. U.S. 30 at U.S. 224, both directions, will have lane restrictions beginning Monday, April 12, for finish work. The project increases vertical clearance of the overhead, improves drainage, replaces […]
POSTED: 04/11/21 at 11:11 pm. FILED UNDER: News
Staff and submitted information Van Wert Mayor Ken Markward has signed an application for a Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area (DORA) in Van Wert and has presented this application to Van Wert City Council. The application will be voted on for approval or denial by City Council no earlier than 30 days and no later than […]
POSTED: 04/11/21 at 11:09 pm. FILED UNDER: News
Mark S. Price, 65, of Payne, completed his dash at 3:03 a.m. Friday, April 9, 2021, at St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mark was born November 11, 1955, in Van Wert, the son of Harold Price and Myrna Young, who both preceded him in death. He married the former Penny McMillan, who survives […]
POSTED: 04/11/21 at 4:26 pm. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
Van Wert independent sports Softball Lincolnview 20 Continental 0 (five innings) CONTINENTAL — Destiny Coil and Taylor Post each hit a home run to lead Lincolnview to a 20-0 win over Continental on Friday. Post finished with a pair of hits and five RBIs, while Coil tallied two hits and three RBIs. Addysen Stevens had […]
POSTED: 04/10/21 at 5:46 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
Van Wert independent sports LIMA — Van Wert’s boys won the team title at the 12-team Bath High School Ehresman Invitational, while the girls finished third out of 11 teams, behind Kalida and Ottawa-Glandorf. The 4×800 relay team of Gage Wannamacher, Trey Laudick, Gage Springer and Hunter Sherer took first place with a time of […]
POSTED: 04/10/21 at 5:45 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
DAVE MOSIER/independent editor The Van Wert Forward downtown development project is still… um… moving forward, with the exciting news that major work is tentatively set to begin on buildings in Phase 1 this August. On Friday, those Van Wert County Foundation (VWCF) staff members actively working on the downtown project — Executive Secretary Seth Baker, […]
POSTED: 04/10/21 at 2:57 am. FILED UNDER: News