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LIMA – St. John’s sixth-grader Grant Schwinnen is the 2025 Allen County Spelling Bee champion.

LIMA – St. John’s sixth-grader Grant Schwinnen is the 2025 Allen County Spelling Bee champion.

DELPHOS — Franklin Elementary continued celebrating its designation as a 5-star building by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce with the Delphos City Schools Board of Education Monday evening.

ARCHBOLD — On Saturday, Feb. 22, the International Science and Engineering Northwest Ohio Regional Science Fair was held at Northwest State Community College in Archbold. Students from Northwest Ohio who had received top scores in their local or county science fairs were eligible to participate in the fair.
DELPHOS — This year – 2025 – Delphos Senior Citizens celebrates their 50th Anniversary! Next, we are starting two different sessions of a group called “The Sweet Life.” We will hopefully enjoy some lively conversation and lots of laughs! We’ll also start offering a monthly craft project led by office aide, Chris.

DELPHOS — For a second year, Delphos St. John’s senior Noah Slawinski was selected to sing in the Ohio Music Educators Association All-State Choir.

We are very excited that we will be celebrating 50 years in the community this year. We’ll be celebrating in a variety of ways throughout the year.

Students in Nicole Tobe’s first-grade class at Franklin Elementary include, front from left, Reigna Truman, Kaiden Ditto, Carly Knick, Larkyn Brenneman and Tyler Inkrott;; row two, Brookelynn Miles, Benjamin Norbeck, Riggs Hoersten, Claire Allen, Braylen Dills and Tate Kozentis; and back, Tobe, Donald Hickey, Cameron Leach, Evelyn Reynolds, Jaxon Hines, Nathan Gerdemann, Dalton Ford and student teacher Brielle Collier. (CherryRoad Media/Nancy Spencer)

Students in fifth grade science at Jefferson Middle School enjoyed hands-on science activities to wrap up their unit on Sound Energy. Rachel Smith from the SESA program put students through activities to test a sound’s pitch, frequency and volume. Above left: studen ts demonstrate how the sound of their voice produces vibrations that cause the salt on a bucket to dance. By changing the pitch in their voice, they could create fast and slow vibrations that made the salt dance at various speeds or frequencies on the top of the bucket. Above right: Students listened to sound waves travel through string using a hanger, string and Dixie cups. (Photos submitted)

Jefferson Middle School would like to say thank you to Paulding Putnam Electric’s Project Round-up for their generous donation $1,000 to support the middle school PBIS initiative. The funds will be used to take qualifying students to the Van Wert Cinemas. Shown receiving the check are, from left Bryar Suever, Kate Brinkman, Phoenix O’Dell, Braylon Wannemacher, Hanna He, Alayna Stokes and Samantha Stanton. (Photo submitted)

Students in Julane Stockwell’s first-grade class at Franklin Elementary include, front from left, Kennedy Garber, Max Hellman, Harmoni McGill, Avalon Richardson and Connor Smith; row two, Callie Bevington, Oliver Closson, Charlie Cunningham, Gunnar Nifty, Alex Riordan, Clayton York and Shannon Snyder; and back, Ian Walter, Keeley Suever, Lucille Gehr, Nova Smith, Max Trentman, Austin Koester and Stockwell. (CherryRoad Media/Nancy Spencer)