Paulding Cardinals Win Close Game Against WT Staff

A strong and spirited Paulding Cardinals basketball team traveled to The Palace on Friday, January 10 to take on the Wayne Trace staff in a much-anticipated game.  It had taken a number of years for the wounds of the staff to heal after the Cardinal’s last visit several years ago, but the Raiders felt that…

Bids Begin For Use of Allocated Paulding County Brownfield and Residential Blight Funds

The Paulding County Land Reutilization (Land Bank) committee met for the first time in the new year at the county commissioner’s office.     The meeting opened with Estee Blair, representing Maumee Valley Planning Organization (MVPO), sharing that all projects that were allocated funds from the Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) 2023-24 round of residential…

High School Winter Sports Round-Up

PANTHERS TAKE COUNTY RIVALRY MATCHUP The annual Paulding County rivalry matchup between Paulding and Antwerp took place Friday night in Green Meadows Conference boys basketball action with the visiting Panthers holding off the Archers for a 53-41 victory. The maroon and white held a slim 14-13 lead at the end of eight minutes of action…

MILITARY HISTORY IN PAULDING COUNTY

By: Mark Holtsberry Russell Erx Pease was born on July 1, 1899, in Latty Township, Paulding County, Ohio, the son of Joseph Edgar Pease and Cora Isabelle (Elston) Pease. Joseph was born in February 1863 in Ohio, and Cora was born in March 1870 in Ohio. The couple married in 1888. By 1900, Joseph and…