ANTWERP – Amanda Addington score a dozen points and the Ayersville Pilots rallied from an early fourth quarter deficit for a 43-37 victory over Antwerp Friday night in Green Meadows Conference basketball action. The Lady Pilots improve to 6-8 overall and 2-1 in the conference with the victory while Antwerp drops 3- in all games…
WOODBURN – After falling behind by six entering the fourth quarter, Woodlan put forth a valiant effort but came up short to fall 63-61 to Prairie Heights in boys basketball action last week. The Warriors then played their second game of the week on Friday where Woodlan dropped a 56-39 decision at Heritage. Against the…
The Defiance Youth for Christ recently received a grant in the amount of $1,000.00 to offset costs of YFC camp for 6 – 8th graders attending Paulding and Wayne Trace Schools. The grant was made possible by the Paulding County Area Foundation.
Oakwood Elementary kindergarten students in Mrs. Kylee Miller’s class painted snowmen in class recently. After the snowmen were painted, the students measured the height of the snowmen using blocks as their measuring tool.
The Paulding K of C Free Throw Championship was held Saturday, January 12th, at the Paulding High School gym. Winners advance to the District Championship to be held on February 9th at Van Wert St. Mary’s at 12 p.m. All winners are pictured with plaques.
The Paulding Chamber of Commerce held their annual cook-off at Branch Christian Fellowship on Friday, January 11th. It was a perfect day for a hot bowl of chili. With 12 pots of chili to choose from the competition was steep, but with 105 votes the First Presbyterian Church claimed the traveling trophy for the second…
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…
