PAULDING – The Paulding Chamber of Commerce has hired a new executive director. Erica Noggle is in the midst of her transition period. She is presently working side by side with Mikayla Pieper until April 22 - Pieper’s last day.

PAULDING – Lindsey Manz, RN was recently hired as the new staff nurse for the Paulding County Health Department. Her duties include: managing the COVID vaccination clinic, follow up on positive COVID cases, administering vaccinations for children, administering the flu and pneumonia vaccinations and scheduling the vaccinations.

PAULDING – The Little Sprouts Early Education Center is hosting a fundraising dinner on Saturday, April 17 from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. at the Paulding Church of the Nazarene. It will be a pick-up dinner only.

PAULDING –Does your business or company have employees who wish to receive the COVID-19 Vaccine? Paulding County Hospital and Paulding County Health Department are ready and available to assist. Combined both entities have been able to vaccinate 4,897 essential workers and eligible Paulding County residents thus far.

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ANTWERP – The historical marker to be placed at the site of the 1887 Reservoir War will be dedicated on Saturday, April 24 at 10:30 a.m. Originally scheduled for April 2020, the dedication was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ceremony will take place east of Antwerp at the intersection of Canal Road (County Road 180) and High Road (Township Road 77) in Crane Township. The marker is being placed at the northeast corner of the former Six Mile Reservoir where 134 years ago locals, fed up with the disease-causing stagnant body of water, dynamited the banks of the reservoir, as well as some of the locks along the Wabash & Erie Canal, after earlier legal avenues to abandon the reservoir and canal were defeated.