PAULDING – The Paulding County History Museum will host its 23rd ATHS Vintage Truck Show, featuring antique, classic and special interest vehicles, on Sunday, Sept. 22, during the annual Flat Rock Creek Fall Festival.
More than 1,200 students are enrolled in Wayne Trace schools for 1984-85. A big increase was reported in kindergarten students – 63 at Payne and 57 at Grover Hill.
Students in Wayne Trace’s Art Technology program have been busy again this fall creating products for their STEAM Store which debuted this past weekend at Mercer Landmark’s AGrow Expo. Look for even more artwork created using their CNC machine, laser cutters and engravers, UV printers and other machines to be featured at Homecoming on October 4 when the Wayne Trace STEAM Store and center has an Open House from 5 to 7pm.
INFORMATION SUBMITTED Congratulations go out to Wayne Trace seniors Aiden Lee and Bella Knowles who competed in the Black Swamp Arts Festival’s Chalk Walk this past weekend in Bowling Green. Aiden and Bella’s Mardi Gras-themed design won them the “Best Use of Media” award in this annual contest sponsored by the BG Rotary.
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio (September 12, 2024) – Soil & Water Conservation Districts, land trusts, and city, township, and county entities are invited to apply to the Ohio Department of Agriculture’s Office of Farmland Preservation for local sponsor certification from September 16-October 18, 2024. Local sponsors that complete the certification application and qualify will be allocated a portion of the funding available in Local Agricultural Easement Purchase Program 2025 funds.
INFORMATION SUBMITTED FORT WAYNE, Indiana — Tuesday’s groundbreaking ceremony on the campus of Purdue University Fort Wayne was capped off with some big news. The university’s $25 million, 26,000-square-foot facility that’s scheduled to open in time for the fall 2026 semester will be called the Surack – Sweetwater Music Industry Building.
INFORMATION SUBMITTED COLUMBUS- House Bill 661, legislation that regulates imitation meat and egg products, has been introduced by State Representative Roy Klopfenstein (R- Haviland) and State Representative Jack Daniels (R- New Franklin). With meat and egg alternatives on the rise, the bill will ensure that corporations within the imitation meat and egg products industry clearly define the difference between an agricultural food animal product and manufactured protein food products.
INFORMATION SUBMITTED U.S. 24 pavement rehabilitation: The U.S. 24 pavement rehabilitation project began in May 2024 and is expected to continue through September 2025. The project will crack and seat the concrete pavement and resurface with asphalt on U.S. 24 in both directions between U.S. 127 and Baltimore Street. A slope erosion repair along the U.S. 127 eastbound entrance ramp is also included in the project scope.
INFORMATION SUBMITTED VAN WERT – The Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is currently investigating a semi rollover crash on US127 at Wren Landeck Road, Liberty Township, at approximately 7:43 A.M. on September 12, 2024.
