Paulding Exempted Village Schools held their annual staff appreciation breakfast on May 14, 2025. During the breakfast, eleven retirees were recognized and given a personalized crock, handcrafted by Sandy Dobbelaere.
PAULDING - 2025 will mark the 40th year for Paulding County Relay for Life. Their Honorary Survivors embody the spirit shared by all cancer survivors. The event will take place on Friday, May 30, lasting from 6pm until midnight.
Mental health is now discussed more openly than it once was. Mental illness or issues that affected mental health used to be stigmatized, and many people suffered in silence and might not have gotten the help they needed.
Verena (Special friend Daniel Ray), age 27
CEDARVILLE, Ohio - Audrey Giesige of Paulding, was named to the Dean’s Honor List at Cedarville University for Spring 2025. This recognition requires the student to obtain a 3.75 GPA or higher for the semester and carry a minimum of 12 credit hours.
VAN WERT – Central’s Educational & Charitable Foundation has announced its 2025 Scholarship Program recipients.
A new report showed programs serving domestic violence survivors in Ohio are stretched thin, with hundreds of people who need help being turned away due to lack of shelter.
At its statewide conference and Awards Celebration, the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA), Ohio’s professional association for K-12 school librarians, will recognize the recipients of the 2025 READ On! Ohio Award for Children & Teens. The award celebrates enthusiastic readers nominated by school and public librarians in the following categories: primary (K-2); intermediate (3-5); middle (6-8); and high (9-12) and regions: SE, SW, NE, and NW. This year marks the eleventh year READ Onl Ohio has been awarded.
Dr. Mark Kleffner is the 2025 recipient of the Ohio State University at Lima’s Violet I. Meek Town and Gown Award. Kleffner will receive his award at a ceremony scheduled to begin at 5:15 p.m., Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in the G. Gilbert Cloyd Commons on the lower level of Galvin Hall.
The Kiwanis Club of Paulding County was privileged to have Charity Meuleman (Defiance/Paulding Consolidated Job & Family Services) as the guest speaker at the May 8, 2025 club meeting. Charity came at the invitation of Corey Walker (Director, Paulding County Carnegie Library). Charity spoke to the Kiwanians about the need for Foster Families in Defiance and Paulding County Ohio and how to become a foster parent. Charity discussed the importance of fostering and how it can be life changing for families in time of need and struggle.