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Meraz Selected as Americanism State Winner

Olivia Meraz, a senior at Wayne Trace High School, has been selected as a State Winner of the 2023-2024 American Legion Americanism and Government Test program. Because Olivia is a State Winner, she has earned a trip to Washington D.C. sponsored by The American Legion Department of Ohio.  Olivia is the daughter of Saul and Lucinda…

Four Area Atudents Will Visit Washington, D.C. for Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives Youth Tour

Ashlyn Steury (Hicksville High School), Brooklyn Wright (Hicksville High School), Henry Ballard (Hicksville High School), and Braden Knippen (Fort Jennings High School) will be attending Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives’ Youth Tour to Washington, D.C. This annual program will be held June 17-23, and the students will be representing North Western Electric and Paulding Putnam Cooperatives. The…

First Lady Welcomes Ohio National Guard to Participate in Roundtable Discussion For Military Children

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Maj. Gen. John C. Harris Jr., Ohio adjutant general, and Ohio Army National Guard Maj. Andre Ballard and his daughter Veronica were invited to represent Ohio during a recent roundtable discussion in Washington, hosted by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, on ways to support National Guard children as part of the ongoing…

Stan’s Ramblings: The End of the Pentagon

By: Stan Jordan We finished using a story from Wikipedia about the big Pentagon in Washington D.C. it is considered the biggest office building in the world. Now we are going to do a story on the remodeling of the White House in Washington in the late 1940’s and 50’s when Harry S. Truman was…

Paulding FFA Members Attend Washington Leadership Conference

This past July, five Paulding FFA members attended the 2016 Washington Leadership Conference, the second-largest student experience that the National FFA Organization hosts each year. Created in 1969 and held annually in Washington, D.C.,they attended from July 19-24 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Since 1969, the National FFA Organization has hosted this student leadership event.…