This week’s edition of Random Thoughts centers around an eye-popping projection, an amazing first start, two unbeatens, a scare, a streak, and the Battle of Ohio. Kenton quarterback Xavier Hammons ...

Week No. 4 is here and that means all area high school football teams, except for Lima Sr., will be playing league or conference games. There are a handful of games on the schedule that could go ...

More Ohio students are being homeschooled now than during the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of Ohio students being homeschooled was trending upward pre-pandemic, spiked to about 51,500 students during ...

Week No. 3 of the high school football season is here. It’s the final week of non-conference games for teams in the Northwest Conference and Green Meadows Conference. The Midwest Athletic Conference ...

COLUMBUS — Week No. 2 of the 2025 high school football season is in the books. Football players from all over Ohio put up some amazing performances on opening night of the season. Here, the Ohio Prep ...

COLUMBUS GROVE — In a race that featured some of the state’s top small school cross country teams, the Crestview Knights finished second out of 18 teams in the Gray Division of the Columbus Grove ...

This week’s Monday Mailbag, a day late due to the Labor Day holiday, features a question about Saturday’s Ohio State vs. Texas game, the Midwest Athletic Conference, and a comment and explanation of ...

It won’t be much longer before street paving begins in Van Wert. S. Tyler St., between Main St. and Spencer St. is one of the streets on this year’s paving list. Scott Truxell/Van Wert independent ...

The latest installment of Random Thoughts includes fun facts, a not so fun fact, close games involving a WBL team, 8-man to 11-man football, college football and the Micah Parsons saga. There are four ...

A local woman charged in connection with a fatal accident made her first appearance in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday. Barbara Nickles, 66, of Van Wert, entered a not guilty plea to ...

It hasn’t necessarily been pretty, but Van Wert enters the first home game of the 2025 season 2-0 (1-0 WBL). The Cougars struggled offensively for the better part of the first half but picked up the ...