Delphos News

Published: Saturday, July 4, 2009 On June 22, the Delphos FFA held its first summer FFA meeting with nearly 40 members in attendance.

As is common, he got involved with livestock when he saw family members having fun with it.

Published: Monday, June 29, 2009 How on earth did we go from "just celebrating Christmas" to getting all the sparklers and the fireworks ready for the Fourth of July? Me? Well, heck, I'm still trying to get the spring cleaning done - ! I think I get further behind each year and time is going faster and faster! But anyhow, when I took down the ...

Lauren Klausing, 18, has been singing along with her favorite country music star, Taylor Swift, for years, but it was meeting the performer that inspired her to write a song of her own.

Published: Saturday, June 27, 2009 Twelve-year-old Gage Seffernick, right, caught this 30 1/2-pound, 40 1/4-inch carp in the quarry behind the Delphos Coon and Sportmana s Club earlier this week.

Fiscal Officer Jeanne Wannemacher submitted the following itemized expenses: General: $620,760.19 Street Construction: $188,898.61 State Highway: $4,300 Permissive Tax: $21,000 Police: $18,605 Sinking Water: $1,403.90 Water: $107,676.57 Sewer: $234,820 Sewer Reserve: $50,000 Water Reserve: $45,000 Utility Deposit: $900 Total: $1,293,364.27 In other ...

Beginning next week, people in Delphos, St. Marys and Van Wert will have go to a new place to get their licenses renewed.

Published: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Dennis and Lois Osting of Delphos observed 30 years of marriage on June 16.

Mayor Jim Smith told council members Tuesday evening that a grant the village had been turned down for last year had received additional stimulus funds and with their permission, he would submit an application for the paving ofA village roadways including Fifth Street from Main to Charles Street; Charles Street from Oak to Fifth Street; St.

The Military Vehicle Preservation Association Convoy paraded through town, stopping for the night on their journey across the country - a journey which started in Washington D.C., and will end in San Francisco.

Published: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 The Delphos Soccer Association will hold one last soccer sign-up for the upcoming 2009 soccer season.

Published: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Homer and Jeanette Baumgartner celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary on June 7 with a family dinner.

Driven batty by bird droppings, a Delphos man fired several shotgun blasts into the sky Friday night in an attempt to scare the fowl away, police said.

Patrolman Ryan Kimmet was promoted to sergeant Thursday afternoon to fill the position left by now-Delphos Police Chief Kyle Fittro.

A recent Ohio Supreme Court ruling decided cities cannot require municipal employees to reside within a respective corporation limit.

With endorsements from Princes William and Harry of Great Britain, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and soccer sensation David Beckam, two cyclists from the Royal Air Force recently passed through Delphos while cycling from California to New York City.

The VFW supplies a color guard and its members provide graveside rites when some of our most patriotic residents pass on.

Published: Saturday, June 6, 2009 The Delphos Junior Catholic Daughters of America recently closed the 2008-09 year.

At a time of increasing drug use in town, the 11-year veteran who will take over as police chief at 4 p.m. Monday says heroine and Oxycontin are becoming a bigger problem.

When the Jefferson High School Class of 2009 considered the choices for its Honorary Wildcat, no debate was needed.