Paulding County Senior Citizens Day

Paulding County Senior Citizens’ Day will be Thursday, May 16th, 2024 at Paulding County OSU Extension Office. This year’s event theme is SAFARI. Doors will open at 10:30 a.m. Lunch will be served as well as entertainment, raffle and door prizes. Guest entertainer is Mark’s Ark’s Exotic Animal Show. Stop by the Senior Center to…

Big fifth sends Wildcats over Panthers

PAULDING – A five-run fifth inning by visiting Kalida proved to be the difference as the Wildcats doubled up host Paulding 8-4 Monday night in high school baseball play. Leading 1-0 entering the fifth, Kalida plated five runs in the visitors half of the fifth to extend the margin to 6-0. Paulding did answer with…

Class of 2024 Top Scholars

Paulding Exempted Village Schools Malia Brooke Manz has been named Valedictorian for the Class of 2024 at Paulding High School. She earned a 4.45 GPA during her high school career. At age 13, Malia started her own non-profit organization named Prayer Buddies. She is also a part of the AC young group, is a volunteer…

Public Invited To Opening of U.S. 127 Bridge

Bridge over the Maumee River closed just over one year for reconstruction LIMA, Ohio –- (Saturday, May 11, 2024) The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), Defiance County Economic Development, and Paulding County Economic Development, Inc. invite the public to attend a ceremony to officially open the reconstructed bridge on U.S. 127 over the Maumee River…

MILITARY HISTORY IN PAULDING COUNTY 

By: Mark Holtsberry Verner Enoch Meek was born November 5, 1892 in Haviland, Ohio. The son of Enoch Leander born July 1859 in Ohio and Eatie E. (Everett) Meek born July 1867 in Ohio. She is the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Everett. Enoch and Eatie were married in 1884 in Ohio. By 1900, while…

THE LOVE OF FOOD

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker  Something we all like to do, including every species, is eat. I call myself a foodie cause I love to cook and eat.  Every place  we go and do, such as the fairs, restaurants, churches, schools and almost every event, there is food.  We can eat snacks, cakes, pies, potatoes, vegetables,…