By: Joe Shouse, Sportswriter HAVILAND – The Wayne Trace Lady Raiders have completed half their regular season and stand at 11-1, riding a 10 game winning streak. The team is having success because they play as a “team”. It’s not about any one player but a group of young ladies working together to continue the…
Both the junior high and high school wrestling squads for Antwerp competed over the weekend with great results coming from both teams. At Ayersville, the junior high squad placed 2 of their 5 wrestlers with 1 of them earning 1st place for the day. Narrowly missing 1st place honors was 8th grader Eli Reinhart in…
On Thursday, January 10 the Antwerp Archers hosted the Wayne Trace Raiders for the annual competition that takes place between these local rivals in high school boys basketball. It was a slow start to this match as Antwerp only scored four points in the first quarter with Wayne Trace responding with six. It was Ty…
By: Jen Stahl The Paulding NHS Chapter made Christmas cookies for the local nursing home on December 20th. The members are required to assemble a group of 5 and organize a service project. The chapter has its first service project of the 2018-2019 school year. The members made snickerdoodles and sugar cookies. They gave the…
The Advent Season at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, Antwerp was full of activity ! Youth of the congregation held a “pre-advent” Lock-In and along with food and fun created over 40 lap blankets for Antwerp Manor residents. Mt. Calvary women hosted a gathering that featured Jeanne and Bev of the Towpath Players who shared music…
Special Olympics is always an exciting time of year when it takes place in the winter. It’s been nearly 30 years that Paulding has hosted Special Olympics and the Paulding Knights of Columbus has been in charge and taking care of this incredibly fun day for these people. This year there were approximately 30 volunteers…
By: Joe Shouse, Sportswriter HAVILAND – It wasn’t easy but the Wayne Trace Raiders outlasted the deliberate play of Tinora in posting a seven point win over the Rams 40-33 to open Green Meadows Conference play. Playing at the Palace last Thursday, the slow-down play of Tinora kept the score low as indicated by a…
WOODBURN – Tied at 34-34 at the end of three quarters, the Woodlan Lady Warriors took control in the final period and outscored visiting Blackhawk 19-12 to post a 53-46 win over the Braves Thursday night. Woodlan held a slim 9-8 advantage after eight minutes of action before Blackhawk took a 20-19 lead into the…
WOODBURN – Four quarters of high school basketball wasn’t enough to decide a winner Saturday evening but Bluffton outscored Woodlan 14-8 in the extra session to post a 69-63 victory over the Warriors. Bluffton jumped in front 14-7 at the end of one quarter and the Tigers pushed the margin from there. Quarter number two…
Before winter break, fifth graders at Antwerp Elementary School used their coding skills to program Dash robots to move and play the xylophone. Here, Dylan Hahn watches as Dominic Laker changes the code on the iPad. Behind them, Tyler Palacios prepares the Dash robot.
On December 19, 2018, the Paulding County D.A.R.E. program had a DA.R.E. Graduation for the 5th graders of Payne Elementary. Graduation is a time for the kids to think back on what they have learned in D.A.R.E. and it’s a time to reward the kids for completing the 12 week program. At the end…
Oakwood Elementary Choir put on a Christmas program for the student body and again for parents and friends on Tuesday, Dec. 18th. The choir shared many beautiful Christmas songs and performed a couple of dances from “The Nutcracker”.
The students and staff of Woodburn Lutheran School recently presented the Christmas program, “Angels Say What?!” This years’ program featured the 3rd grade students with on stage performances by the preschool, kindergarten, first, and second grade students and singing by all students in preschool through eighth grade. In this program, the Christmas story was told…
