Here is the bracket for the upcoming ACME Baseball State Tournament. Van Wert and Indian Lake will open the tournament at 11 a.m. Saturday and all games will be played at Wally Post Athletic Complex in St. Henry.
POSTED: 07/13/22 at 3:48 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
SCOTT TRUXELL/independent editor She had two job offers on the same day many years ago – one to be a children’s librarian at Brumback Library and the other to become a deputy clerk at Van Wert County Probate and Juvenile Court. Lynn Simson chose the latter and has stuck with it ever since. On Tuesday, […]
POSTED: 07/13/22 at 3:40 am. FILED UNDER: News
VW independent news COLUMBUS — Ohio’s sales tax holiday will be held the first weekend in August. State lawmakers approved the annual event to provide additional tax relief for Ohioans during back-to-school season. Between 12 a.m. Friday, August 5, and 11:59 p.m. Sunday, August 7, the following items will be exempt from sales tax: Any […]
POSTED: 07/13/22 at 3:40 am. FILED UNDER: News
Vicki Williams is all smiles after winning the $1,000 grand prize from the Duck Egg Drop during Saturday’s Main St. Van Wert Block Party. Numbered ping-pong balls served as duck eggs and sailed along Town Creek to the finish line. Pictured with Williams is MSVW Executive Director Joe Dray. Photo provided
POSTED: 07/13/22 at 3:39 am. FILED UNDER: News
West Ohio Food Bank, a United Way of Van Wert County agency, will be distributing shelf stable food and produce at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. or until food is gone on Tuesday, July 26. The mobile food drive will be a drive-thru event through the Balyeat Rd. entrance. […]
POSTED: 07/13/22 at 3:39 am. FILED UNDER: News
Submitted information Votes have been tallied and the People’s Choice Awards winners for the recent Old Fashioned Farmers Days Quilt and Needle Arts Show are as follows: Favorite Hand Quilted Bed Quilt 1st – Lisa Merkle; 2nd – Susan Gunsett; 3rd – Susan Gunsett Favorite Machine Quilted Bed Quilt 1st – Janice Heath; 2nd – […]
POSTED: 07/13/22 at 3:38 am. FILED UNDER: News
Richard G. Burdge Jr. of Van Wert passed away Friday, July 8, 2022, at Brookview Healthcare Center in Defiance. He was born September 26, 1957, in South Bend, Indiana, to Richard G. Burdge Sr and Geraldine L Minker, who both preceded him in death. He married Cheryl Tarlton December 8, 1998, and she survives in […]
POSTED: 07/12/22 at 11:01 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
Monday July 11, 2022 3:12 a.m. – Dispatched Van Wert EMS to a residence in the City of Van Wert for a subject with difficulty breathing. 6:38 a.m. – Deputies responded to a residential alarm in Washington Township. 7:47 a.m. – Dispatched Wren and Van Wert EMS to a residence in the Village of Willshire for a subject […]
POSTED: 07/12/22 at 8:12 am. FILED UNDER: Law Enforcement
Van Wert Police Sunday, July 3, 1:07 a.m. – investigated a miscellaneous drug offense in the 300 block of Towne Center Blvd. Sunday, July 3, 11:21 a.m. – investigated a report of a robbery was reported at Walmart. It remains under investigation. Sunday, July 3, 12:10 p.m. – received a 911 call from a female […]
POSTED: 07/12/22 at 6:58 am. FILED UNDER: Law Enforcement
SCOTT TRUXELL/independent editor A partisan or non-partisan city council and administration? That’s the question voters in the city of Van Wert will decide in November. Currently, anyone who runs for a Van Wert council seat or administrative post such as mayor appears as a Democrat, Republican or Independent on the May primary ballot and the […]
POSTED: 07/12/22 at 3:44 am. FILED UNDER: News