PCBW Guest: Patriot Rail Company

Hear it here! This week on PCBW we will learn from James Kornas, Vice President of Commercial Development, Mergers & Acquisitions for the Patriot Rail Company. The Patriot Rail recently purchased the Napoleon, Defiance and Western short rail line that goes from Woodburn, IN through Paulding County all the way to Campbells Soup facility in Napoleon,…

Military History in Paulding County

By: Mark Holtsberry Phaon Franklin Craft was born in Paulding County, Ohio October 31, 1882. The son of Wallace A., born January 16, 1838 in Ohio, and Sarah D.(Doering) Craft, born March 10, 1850 in Ohio. The daughter of Joseph and Eliza J. Doering. This couple was married April 24, 1870 in Paulding. By 1880,…

ARM CHAIR DETECTIVE

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Ada and the doctor One of the stations I absolutely love to watch is Discovery’s ID Channel. I could sit in my chair and play arm chair detective all day. The stories on the ID channel are all true and include such shows as: Joe Kenda, Homicide Detective;…

MATT’S  MISHAPS

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” —Matt  SEASON FOR EVERY BUG During those first few really hot days in the spring, everything comes to life in Indiana – or maybe better said, becomes active. Ants seem…

The Left Turn

By: Ron Burt The Great Lakes Traditional Sprints returned to Limaland Motorsports Park last Friday evening. Thomas Meseraull passed the leaders on lap 5 of the 25-lap feature after a caution. Ricky Lewis would do a side job on the leader and would pass Meseraull on lap 12. On lap 20, Meseraull began to reel…

Wolcott’s Mills (part 1)

Rachel Bontrager  was almost 18 and considered by many the prettiest girl in Lagrange County. She enjoyed being Amish and was engaged to a handsome Amish boy Amos Hostetler. Her only problem was that they were not allowed to read novels, so she had to hide her Gene Stratton Porter books. On the evening of…