On July 11, a small delegation from Crane Township traveled to Hillsdale, Michigan, to meet Louise Van Aken Worms, a great-great-great-granddaughter of Oliver Crane, the township’s namesake and one of its earliest settlers.
The Paulding County History Museum, located across from the fairgrounds on Fairground Drive in Paulding, will hold an antique farm machinery show on Saturday, August 2 from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. The show replaces the museum’s annual chicken barbecue.
The Paulding Parents Club is sponsoring a car wash fundraiser on Saturday, July 19 in the parking lot of Chief’s in Paulding.
Paulding County Senior Center is seeing a need for more parking in the near future.
Ryan Huffman lives in Williams Center, Ohio, just to the North of Paulding County. In 1999 at the first Star Wars Celebration in Denver, Colorado, Huffman, then an engineering student at NSCC was enlightened to the world of R2 builders.
VAN WERT — A Van Wert 11-year-old with autism is in the running to win the title of the 2025 Jr. Ranger, along with a prize of $20,000, a chance to meet television star Jeff Corwin, and a feature in the National Wildlife Federation’s Ranger Rick Magazine, a popular print and online periodical that teaches young kids about nature and the environment.
John W. Lambert was an American automobile manufacturer pioneer and inventor. He is the inventor of the first practical American gasoline automobile. He is also the Father of the Gradual Transmission. In 1891, he built a working gasoline automobile and took it on the streets of Ohio City for experimental drives. On one occasion his vehicle, which was carrying Lambert and James Swoveland, hit a tree root causing the buggy to smash into a hitching post. Injuries from the accident were minor. This was the first recorded incident of an automobile wreck
OHIO CITY - The Village of Ohio City is proud to announce Don and Carolyn Walker as the 2025 Lambert Days Grand Marshals, honoring their deep roots in the community and decades of service and dedication to the town they’ve always called home.
Paulding County and the village of Paulding are named for John Paulding, one of three men who captured British spy Major John André. André was returning to British lines through American territory after Arnold offered the surrender of the fort at West Point, in New York.