VW independent staff/submitted information LIMA — The Ohio Department of Transportation District 1 has announced this year’s champions of its annual Paint-the-Plow program: Carey High School and Fort ...

Van Wert City Schools has revamped the shuttle bus system for the 2024-2025 school year (click here to visit the transportation webpage, including the complete shuttle bus schedule). School start and ...

SCOTT TRUXELL/independent sports DELPHOS — It was quite a finish to the 2024-2025 boys basketball regular season. Crestview, ranked No. 5 in Division VI by MaxPreps, used a Tommy Heffner layup at the ...

COLUMBUS — The 2025 Divisions I, II and III boys basketball All-Ohio teams were announced Thursday by the Ohio Prep Sports Media Association. The All-Ohio teams are based on nominations from the seven ...

CONVOY — Crestview High School recently held its senior convocation to recognize its seniors for their academic and athletic accomplishments with awards from the teaching staff, along with ...

SCOTT TRUXELL/independent editor Officials with the YWCA of Van Wert County, The Marsh Foundation and Mercy Health – Lima gathered Friday morning at the site of the YWCA’s future facility to unveil ...

If the deal goes through, a data center will be built on 220 acres of land known as the Mega Site in Van Wert. Van Wert Area Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Brent Stevens confirmed ...

DAVE MOSIER/for the Van Wert independent A Van Wert man arraigned on three drug-related counts and several other charges was among the 12 people who appeared this week in Van Wert County Common Pleas ...

50 years of the Peony Queen Pagaent – the Golden Jubilee – was celebrated Friday night at LifeHouse Church. Eight area high school senior girls competed for the coveted title and it wasn’t an easy ...

The Miami & Erie Canal and the Wabash & Erie Canal met in Paulding County at the town of Junction, which was planned in the early days of canal construction. Junction was one of the busiest canal ...

PAULDING — All aboard, as readers travel through a brief history of Paulding County’s railroads and some of the communities that sprang up beside them. Over time, the names of the railroad companies ...

There’s a lot of interest in Van Wert. That was the message given by Van Wert Area Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Brent Stevens during Monday night’s meeting of Van Wert City ...