PAULDING, OH: Kenneth “Kenny” “Mike” Barnes, age 69 went home to be with his Lord and Savior on February 26, 2018. He was born April 19, 1948 in Lima to Kenneth E. and Cuba L. (Hartzog) Barnes. He grew up in Van Wert, Ohio, and graduated from Van Wert High School in 1966. Kenneth proudly…
Letter to the Editor Small Business Saturday is Saturday, November 25th. Please save a few items from your Black Friday shopping list to purchase from your local businesses. Those businesses not only have what you need, when you need it but give back to their community. As I browsed the Westbend newspaper this week, I…
Too Much Whine Why are dimms the only ones who feel they can spew out outrageous insults to whomever they please when incidences do not coincide with their political beliefs ? We have a group of fascists showing up to quell someone’s free speech and these fascists come ready for battle. They bring bottles filled…
When Johnny comes marching home again I’ve been listening to the news again and wouldn’t you know it? The far right and the far left clashed in CharlotteSville, Virginia. Three died, six critical, and a dozen or more injured seriously. They want a statue of Robert E. Lee sitting atop his horse, Traveler,…
Well here it is August sixth, the anniversary of our dropping the first atomic bomb during wartime. Now we have been getting threats from Japan’s neighbor to the northwest. The little fat dude in the pantsuit and a lousy haircut. He has been threatening the United States with a nuclear strike. For those readers who…
AIN’T GETTING ANY BETTER Try as we might, we just can’t get along. All the saber rattling by the moron in N. Korea. He has this fixation on weapons. It matters not if it’s a 45 cal. pistol or a nuclear bomb, he just has this unction to kill something or someone, I believe he…
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