Blue Creek Township – The Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Van Wert Post is investigating a serious injury crash that occurred at approximately 3:10 PM Thursday afternoon on US Route 127 near County Road 60, in Paulding County. A 2003 Pontiac Montana, driven by Linda R. Ross, 51, of Paulding, Ohio, was traveling northbound on US…
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Paulding Putnam Electric Co-op To Host 2015 Annual Meeting
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Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative (PPEC) will hold its annual business meeting on Saturday, March 21st, at PPEC’s headquarters located at 401 McDonald Pike, Paulding, Ohio. The doors open at 9:00 a.m. with the business meeting beginning promptly at 10:00 a.m. Members will be treated to a free lunch and will hear an update on the…
Antwerp High School Drama Department presents Little Women
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Antwerp School presents the musical Little Women on March 20-21, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in the Antwerp Local Schools Auditeria. “Based on Louisa May Alcott’s life, Little Women follows the adventures of sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March. Jo is trying to sell her stories for publication, but the publishers are not interested. Her…
Three Paulding Putnam Electric Employees Receive Hometown Hero Awards
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The quick action of three Paulding Putnam Electric (PPEC) employees saved the life of a contracted employee nearly three weeks ago and on Friday, March 13th those three employees were recognized for their heroism. Linemen Zak Kauser and Josh Smith noticed a contractor wasn’t feeling good as he was sitting down in the warehouse…
Village says No Stops are dangerous; ODOT Implies, “Too Bad!”
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Monday March 9th the Village of Payne and Ohio Department of Transportation’s District 1 Deputy Director Kirk Slusher squared off in a debate of the Village’s right to replace the downtown traffic signals. It is ODOT’s position that the intersection of SR 49 and Townline (SR 613) should no longer have any lighted traffic control…
Paulding HS students participate in FCCLA Reginal Meeting & Rally
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Paulding High School FCCLA members recently attended the FCCLA Regional Meeting at Vantage Career Center and the FCCLA Regional Rally at Van Wert High School. February 10th Paulding FCCLA members attended the FCCLA Regional Meeting at Vantage Career Center. Five members earned their Power of One degrees. These five members are pictured with FCCLA State…
Edgerton Concedes District Championship to Wayne Trace
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Regional game at Bowling Green on Tuesday, March 17 at 6:15pm.On Friday, March 13 the Wayne Trace Raiders and the Edgerton Bulldogs competed for the District Championship title at Van Wert High School. The game came after the Bulldogs won a hotly contest match against Hicksville and the Raiders winning against Antwerp. This match started…
13th Annual Health, Business & Industry Fair at PC Senior Center
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The Paulding County Senior Center is hosting their 13th annual Health, Business and Industry Fair on Wednesday, March 18th from 11 am – 2 pm. The event is held at the Paulding County Extension Building on Fairground Dr. The Fair will feature approximately 50 vendor booths, food, door prizes and lots of helpful information. This…
Panthers End Season in Districts
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The teams says goodbye and good luck to seniors Brad Crawford, Ben Heilshorn, Treston Gonzales, and Christian Burtch.Boys Basketball teams, Paulding and Ottawa-Glandorf, competed for the opportunity to play in the District Championship game. This tournament game took place on Thursday, March 12 at the Anthony Wayne High School in Whitehouse, Ohio. Previously Paulding won…
Edgerton to Compete in District Championship
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The game tied and went into overtime against the AcesThe Den at Van Wert High School played host on Tuesday, March 10 to the OHSAA District games between the Sectional Champions from the first week of March. Oddly enough, they were all from the Green Meadows Conference. The first game was between the Hicksville Aces…
1st grade Dental visit
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To celebrate Dental Health Month, Melinda Rhonehouse and Jill Adams from Dr. Mott’s dental office in Paulding, visited the Oakwood first grade classrooms. The students learned about staying healthy and the importance of clean teeth. Shown with Melinda and Jill are two first-grade students, Makena and Logan.
Exhausted Archers Pass Victory to Raiders.
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The Antwerp Archers Boys basketball team came off the Stryker sectional victory all fired up and ready to play the Wayne Trace Raiders. The game followed the intense match between Hicksville and Edgerton at the Van Wert High School Facility. The game began with Antwerp’s Matt Jones grabbing the tipoff, dribbling down court and shooting…
Hostetler signs with Taylor University
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Olivia Hostetler, a senior at Woodlan Jr/Sr High School, recently signed her letter of intent to continue her softball career at Taylor Univeristy located in Upland, IN. Seated around Olivia are her parents Mary and current Woodlan varsity head coach Heath Hostetler, Taylor head coach Brad Bowser, former Woodlan head coach and current Taylor assistant…
