EDON – The Antwerp football team gave it everything they had Saturday night in Division VII football action at Edon as the host Bombers needed a late score to rally for a 26-21 victory. Following a scoreless first quarter, Edon got on the board on a one yard touchdown run from Drew Gallehue for a…
The shop class from Paulding High School let a hand to Habitat for Humanity recently. Pictured here is the team putting up the walls for the Habitat house (l-r) Logan Vance, Dylan Kuckuck, Wyatt Beckman, John Kennedy, Christian Bauer, Alana Eddings, Janae Pease, Nick Manz. Nice work!
The Woodburn Business and Community Decorated Pumpkin Contests were put together by the Woodburn Main Street Organization. Reliance I/O sponsored these contests. The Chop Shop in Woodburn donated the pumpkins to the business for this contest. Our organization would like to give a special shout out to the Woodlan Service Club and Nevaeh Whitaker who did an amazing…
Wayne Trace Payne Elementary is pleased to announce the October students of the month. They are the following: Front row: Maylee Stoller, Mary Gerardot, Clara DeWaard, Elise Steffen, Briana Rupp, River Rittenhouse, Dylainee Carr, Londyn Dargenson. Back Row: Cerenity Seibert, Zander Lelonek, Kohen Fore, Kiptyn Mills, Jenna Kipfer, Kaiden Creighton-Smith, Nora Wenninger
During the month of October, the junior high student council from Wayne Trace led a sock drive with the goal of collecting at least 500 pairs of socks. The junior high students exceeded that goal, and the socks will be donated to local charities who can disperse the socks to those in need. The school appreciates all the…
Oakwood Elementary School is planning a Veteran’s Day Parade for all area veterans on Thursday, November 11th from 10:15-10:35 in front of the school. Mackenzie Leatherman is shown placing a flag in front of the school for last year’s parade. We encourage veterans young and old to come and drive through our patriotic parade and…
Ann’s Bright Beginners made mummies for Halloween and talked about real and fantasy. We know that things that people dress up for at Halloween time are not real, but we can have fun pretending when we dress up! Shown here with their mummies are: Harper Snyder, Owen Gamble, Mylann Good, Nathan Sizemore and Kyla Barajas. …
By: Nancy Whitaker One certain meat product I had forgotten about was good old canned Spam. I posed the question on social media about Spam and I was surprised how much people like it. Spam always came in a square-like can with a key. You had to take the key and hook it onto a…
By: Mark Holtsberry Morris Homer Spriggs is the highest ranking naval officer to come from Paulding County. He was born April 18, 1892, in Paulding, Ohio, the son of Frank and Margaret (Petty) Spriggs. Frank Spriggs was born in Noble County in 1863 and studied law in his brother’s law office in Caldwell, Ohio. He…
The Paulding County Economic Development Board of Directors has announced the date for their upcoming Business & Industry Appreciation Banquet. The banquet will take place on November 9 at Grant’s Catering in Antwerp. This will be the 21st annual event hosted by the PCED office, although last year was cancelled due to the pandemic. “This…
On Saturday, October 23rd members of the Paulding Middle School seventh grade class volunteered at the Caring and Sharing food pantry. Shown in the picture from left to right are: Mrs. Jill Hatcher, Jayla Griffith, Audrey Stoller, and Silas Foltz.
On October 11th, the Antwerp volleyball team organized a Volley for the Cure game against Van wert for breast cancer awareness. Through a lot of fundraising and great support of the Antwerp and Van Wert communities they raised over $1,500 for the Francine’s Friends organization. The employees from Breast Diagnostic Center, Madison Derickson, Sue Fowler,…
The Woodburn Lions Club and The Woodlan Service Club did some maintenance at the Woodburn Park on Ootober 23. Their main focus was on trimming the Crab appble trees and hauling away brush to the Woodburn compost site.
