Category: Entertainment

Raiders Base Running Help WT Defeat Archers By A Run

By: Joe Shouse, Sportswriter ANTWERP – Last Monday the Wayne Trace Raiders baseball squad traveled to Antwerp for a non-league contest. The game was originally scheduled as a Raider home game but due to field conditions the game was moved to Antwerp. The Raiders prevailed 6-5 to move their record to 2-1 while the Archers…

County Bookmobile Celebrates National Bookmobile Day

Starting with horse-drawn vehicles sending boxes of books to general stores and post offices more than a century ago, libraries have used bookmobiles to deliver information, technology and resources for lifelong learning to Americans of all walks of life. On Wednesday, April 10, as part of National Library Week, National Bookmobile Day is celebrated, recognizing…

Free Family Fun Day at Nature Center

By: Patrick Troyer, Paulding SWCD Are you and your family ready to get out of the house and enjoy some nice spring weather? Are you wanting to find some way to also give back to your community? Look no further than some great spring family fun coming to the Black Swamp Nature Center on Saturday,…

Antwerp manor assisted living welcomes you

Welcome to Antwerp Manor Assisted Living located at 204 Archer Drive in Antwerp, Ohio.  If you are not familiar with our facility, stop in and meet our residents.  They are a fun group of people who enjoy all sorts of activities.  You might even find them playing a lively game of Euchre. If you are…

Devices are listening!

By: Bryce Steiner Do you wonder if your phone is listening to you?  You open your phone up and you see something come up on Facebook that you just talked about and you start to question if you searched for it or something recently? A conversation with a friend and now a youtube video pops…

Monroeville Park Groundbreaking!

Monroeville City Council, along with the New Allen Alliance (NAA), announced their grant starting the process of re-building the Monroeville Community Park by starting the Strategic Plan by the Alliance. The groundbreaking took place on Monday, March 25 at the community park. The New Allen Alliance is a partnership of communities in the Allen County…

Archers improve to 5-0

Antwerp improved to 5-0 on the season with a 10-0 blanking of county rival Paulding in high school varsity softball action last week. Carlie Hanes paced the way for the Lady Archers with 13 strikeouts in the complete game effort. The Panthers drew three walks and finished with two hits. Morgan Iler recorded a double…

Track season begins in Antwerp!

On March 28th, Antwerp hosted an early season track tri-meet with Tinora and Wayne Trace. BOYS: Team results – 1 Wayne Trace 79; 2 Antwerp 55; Tinora 38 Event Results: Discus – 1 Mohr, WT, 100’3”; 2 Showalter, WT, 100’2”; 3 Lang, A, 93’4”; 4 Huffine, WT, 93’3” Shot put – 1 Mohr, WT, 43’3”;…

Woodlan battles Eastside in Track

Woodlan boys and girls track hosted a meet against Eastside on Wednesday, March 27th — a pleasant spring afternoon for an outdoor sporting event. Woodlan athletes all competed well against the Blazers.  Boys Track: Eastside 43, Woodlan 85 Girls Track: Eastside 42, Woodlan 89 (individual events results were unavailable at the time of publication)

Fort Jennings overtakes Wayne Trace

On March 26th, Wayne Trace and Fort Jennings competed in high school baseball action. The first half of the innings were a stalemate until the Raiders stole a run in the bottom of the 4th. They took another in the 5th. The Musketeers rallied in the 6th and one upped the Raiders by adding 2…

March Madness at Antwerp Elementary

This year the first graders at Antwerp Elementary School had their own version of March Madness… but with read aloud books. Students filled out brackets, listened to the read alouds, and then voted on their favorites. Bentley Taylor filled out the winning bracket and received the winning book Shhh, We Have a Plan as his…

Buddy project at wayne trace payne elementary

For her principal internship, Mrs. Teresa Pfeiffer implemented the “Arthur Interactive Media (AIM) Buddy Project” which is a cross-grade buddy program between the fourth and first grade students at Wayne Trace Payne Elementary School in order to promote social, emotional, and character development and to build school unity.