Patrol Looks To Reduce Fatal Crashes This Thanksgiving Holiday

COLUMBUS – Traditionally, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is one of the busiest travel periods each year. As Ohioans and our visitors travel throughout the state, Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers will be enforcing safe driving. Troopers will be highly visible and cracking down on impaired drivers and those failing to wear a safety belt from Wednesday, November…

Cooper Family Foundation donates to OVFD

Oakwood Volunteer Fire Department extends it’s deepest gratitude to the Cooper Family Foundation for the funds donated to purchase 30 sections of 50 feet long, 2.5 inch hose, three 2.5 inch-to-2.5 inch Gated Wyes, and three 2.5 inch-to-1.5 inch Gated Wyes. This new hose & the Gated Wyes are made of durable, lightweight materials that…

Next PCBW Guest

This week on our show we get bonus coverage.  Meet Miranda Schlatter, owner of Maid to Achieve Cleaning Service and co-owner of Double Ds Dairy Bar in Melrose.  Meet Erika Dobbelaere, co-owner of Double Ds Dairy Bar and a graduate of the Panthers for Careers program at Paulding High School.  Hear how education, workforce, business,…

Oakwood EMS Gives Tour of New vehicle

Oakwood EMS invited Dianne Cooper and Mayor Brian Ripke out to see their return on investment. The Oakwood EMS team gave Dianne and Mayor Ripke a tour of the new Braun Chief XL that will be serving the village and surrounding townships for many years to come. Oakwood EMS Grant writer, Marie Gribble submitted a…

MILITARY HISTORY IN PAULDING COUNTY

By: Mark Holtsberry  Burton Rowland Hoaglin was born May 21, 1891 in Paulding, Ohio. The son of George McClellan, born July 23, 1861 in Van Wert, Ohio, and Geneva C. (Schnorf) Hoaglin, born March 5, 1870 in Preble County, Ohio. This couple was married March 28, 1889 in Paulding, Ohio.  By 1900, this couple along…

WWII Bat Bomb Fiasco

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker In another previous column, I wrote about different funny bat stories.  However, I did not know they were almost used in WW II. Any World War 11 veterans may recall what I am talking about.  After the devastating  Pearl Harbor attack, America was working on the atomic bomb,…