Category: School

Three Students Take Home $4,200 in Scholarships

Eric Thornell (Antwerp), Kiersten Cline (Hicksville), and EricaRae (Swanton) each won $1,400 scholarships in the Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives scholarship competition held April 13, 2021. The three winners took top honors in their individual co-op’s scholarship competition before moving to the statewide level. Eric, the son of Garrett and Amy Thornell, was sponsored by Paulding Putnam…

Paulding FFA Holds Country Olympics Event

By: Jaylyn McCloud, Assistant Reporter Paulding FFA The Paulding FFA hosted their annual Country Olympics with the entire high school in attendance. The students competed in a wide variety of games and competitions with their house in order to be crowned the winning house. These games consisted of straw stacking, stick horse races, tug of…

Fairview’s Mavis Wins Scholarship


By: Carrie Zeedyk and Gracie Willitzer Cassie Mavis, Fairview FFA Chapter Vice President, applied for and won the Ohio FFA Dr. Earl ‘Doc’ Kantner Scholarship. Cassie will be receiving $2,500 to go towards her schooling. Cassie will be attending the Ohio State University majoring in Agribusiness. 

Six Local Students Win $6,000 in Scholarships From North Western Electric Cooperative


North Western Electric Cooperative (NWEC) is proud to present $6,000  in scholarships to six local seniors through three scholarship opportunities. A panel of Defiance College judges selected Riley Krill and Kiersten Cline both of Fairview High School as the first-place winners of the Children of Members Scholarship. Each senior was awarded a $1,500 scholarship from…

LIVE TO GIVE


The second grade students at Oakwood Elementary spent the afternoon on Tuesday, March 30th cleaning up part of the school yard. This was a “Live to Give” activity to go along with the Seven Mindsets they have been learning about all school year. The students did a wonderful job and enjoyed making their school yard…

PCSO Deputies and Their K-9’s Do Demo for Oakwood Elementary 3rd Graders

On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Paulding County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Nick Cunningham (right) and his K-9 Veteran and Deputy/SRO Bill Lyons and his K-9 Duke (left) visited Oakwood Elementary.  The Deputies spoke with and explained to 3rd grade teachers Beth Thornell and Erin Schroeder’s students’ on their duties and their dogs capabilities. Each student received…

Kindergartners Live to Give

PEVS is working on the 7 Mindsets Curriculum this year.  We have been working on the Live to Give Mindset.  We’re learning about how it doesn’t take much to make a big difference.  Oakwood Kindergarten started collecting pennies to give to a local food pantry.  Together Mrs. Miller & Mrs. Roehrig’s classes collected 5,786 pennies…