By Jamie Crawford COLUMBUS — With nearly 82 percent of Americans planning to travel this summer, the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Financial Institutions is urging Ohioans to be on the ...

SCOTT TRUXELL/independent editor Sunday afternoon officially marked the end of the high school careers of more than 140 Van Wert High School students. Those students, all seniors, graduated during the ...

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 ...

VW independent staff/submitted information DELPHOS — St. John the Evangelist Catholic School has announced the appointment of Kristin Gable as elementary principal. A news release said Gable was ...

Brenda and Greg Leeth were honored during Tuesday’s Lincolnview Local Schools Board of Education meeting. The husband and wife team are retiring after serving the district for a combined 59 years.

Board members also approved a three-year administative contract for Van Wert High School Athletic Director Trent Temple, which will run through July 31, 2028. In addition, the board agreed to hire ...

Crestview’s Ayden Hyitt recently signed a letter of intent to continue his studies and to play collegiate baseball at Indiana Tech, an NAIA school in Fort Wayne. Photo submitted ...

VW independent staff/submitted information PAULDING — An early Tuesday morning stabbing in Paulding County’s Latty Township left one man dead and another in jail. According to information provided by ...

Recent Van Wert High School graduate Keaton Foster has been awarded the highly competitive Presidential Scholarship from the University of Toledo, an elite merit-based scholarship given to only four ...

A late addition to the regular season schedule proofed to be a successful one for Van Wert, as the Cougars blanked state ranked Liberty-Benton (No. 6, Division V) 6-0 at Russell Fisher Field on ...

VW independent staff/submitted information COLUMBUS – Last spring and summer, more than 83,000 homes were sold across the state of Ohio, representing 63 percent of all 2024 sales. As the weather and ...

SCOTT TRUXELL/independent editor Newly filed court documents indicate a Rockford man’s request to withdraw his no contest plea to a local murder charge has been denied by a judge. According a ...