Category: Community

Divine Mercy Spelling Bee Winners

Divine Mercy Catholic School recently held their annual spelling bee. Kaden Sutton, Grade 5, son of Kylie Folsum and Mitch Sutton won the spelling bee by spelling the word obsidian correctly. Kenadie Daeger, Grade 5, daughter of Jeremy & Michele Daeger came in second place.

Jayde Garcia Wins WT Payne Elem Spelling Bee

The annual Spelling Bee competition was held at Payne Elementary on January 10, 2014.  Sixth grade student Jayde Garcia (left) was the winner correctly spelling “bolide”.  Sydney Coyne (right) finished as runner-up.  Jayde will represent Payne Elementary at the Paulding County Spelling Bee on January 27.

Real Ribbon Cutting for Real Waste

You’ve seen the bright pink trash totes if you have travelled through Paulding County in the last few years. These were put in place by a small startup company known as Real Waste LLC. It was started in September of 2010 in the small town of Broughton. Since then, it has relocated to Oakwood. In…

Grover Hill Announces Spelling Bee Winners!

Wayne Trace Grover Hill Elementary held the annual Spelling Bee on Friday, January 10th, 2014.  After fifteen rounds, first place winner is fourth grader Lauren Walls, daughter of Bill and Kim Walls.  She spelled “hermitage” correctly to win the Bee.  Second place runner up is sixth grader Andrew Sinn, son of Steve and Joy Sinn.  All…

Biologists Propose Removing Bobcats from Ohio’s Threatened Species List

Traditional hunting dates proposed for 2014-2015 seasonThe Ohio Wildlife Council received proposed changes to several species designations, including bobcats, as well as potential dates for the upcoming fall hunting seasons on Wednesday, Jan. 8, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The ODNR Division of Wildlife biologists submitted a proposal to remove the…

New Haven Wrestling Invitational Team Results

New Haven takes 3rd while Woodlan places 5th.New Haven hosted their annual Wrestling Invitation on Saturday, December 11. Team Results: Penn: 235 Wayne: 205 New Haven: 176 South Adams 150.5 Woodlan 141.5 Eastside 135.5 Harrison (W. Lafayette) 69 The rest of the results will be published later. More pictures here.

Raider Girls Slam Edon

The first game was canceled for the Lady Raiders and rescheduled for Saturday, January 11. Edon came to the Raider gym and and the game took place in the early afternoon. There was virtually no contest for the Raiders in the JV match who took the game 40-6 Varsity started soft and the first quarter…

Woodlan Girls Top Antwerp at Home

Woodlan has shown it’s strong abilities once again.The Lady Archers travelled to Woodlan for their latest matchup on Saturday, January 11. The Warrior basketball team was prepared to take on the guest team. Woodlan dominated each quarter from the start with Senior Brooke Gerbers and Freshman Rain Hinton leading the charge for the home team.…

Wayne Trace Takes Another Win vs Holgate Boys

Holgate travelled to the Welch Stadium near Haviland on Thursday, January 9. The Raiders and the Tigers both struggled early in the basketball game with a slow start as the ball didn’t want to dive through the hoop. Later in the first quarter Wayne Trace started moving the ball more and the points started adding…

Antwerp Boys Fall to Tinora in Basketball

The poor weather didn’t stop Tinora from competing at the Antwerp gymnasium on Thursday, January 9. Unfortunately for Antwerp the Rams were ahead nearly double the entire game. The Archers looked good in the fourth quarter but still lost the game 79-53. Antwerp is now 5-4 for the season.

Herber and Taylor Take their Seats at School Board

The Antwerp Local School Board met for the first meeting of the year with addition of two new members: Robert Herber and Kipp Taylor. Anita Bok was reelected. The board nominated Dennis Recker and approved him as the new president. Mark Ryan was elected as the new vice president. Anita Bok also took on the…