2019-03-27

Golden Notes Of Archbold’s Memorable Past



Ten Years Ago Wednesday, April 1, 2009 Pam Sauder and her husband, Mike, were riding separate motorcycles on Henry Co. Rd. U, Wednesday, April 16, 2008, when the wind caught Pam’s bike and slammed it into a guardrail. The crash broke two bones in her lower leg. Almost a year after the crash, she still uses crutches to get around. […]

Blue Streak Baseball Beats Edgerton 9-1



Archbold scored four runs in the third inning on its way to a 9-1 non-league win over Edgerton, Monday, March 25, at Memorial Park, in the Blue Streaks’ season opener. Archbold led 6-0 after four innings and 8-0 after five. The Bulldogs (0-3) scored their only run in the top of the sixth. The Streaks scored one more run in […]

AHS Softball Opens Season With 13-1 Win



Archbold scored four runs in three on its way to a 13-1 five-inning victory over Liberty Benton, Monday, March 25, in their season opener at Memorial Park. The Eagles opened the game with a run in the top of the first inning, but that was all they scored. AHS scored four runs in the first, third, and fourth innings, and […]

Archbold Track Teams Open Season



The spring track season has opened, and Dina Gladieux, Archbold head coach, welcomes back 14 letterwinners on the boys team and 15 on the girls team. Gladieux is in her ninth year as AHS head coach; she spent 20 years as an assistant. The boys team finished third in the Northwest Ohio Athletic League last year. The girls placed fifth. […]

Frank Named Coach Of Year In Div. Iii



Joe Frank added to his list of accolades last week when he was named the Division III Boys Basketball Coach of the Year by the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association. In his first year as head coach, Frank guided Archbold as the Blue Streaks finished the regular season undefeated at 22-0 for the first time since the 1995-96 season. They won […]

Old Photo Corner



Zeno Miller, rural Pettisville, found this poster of an Archbold Christmas promotion, possibly from the 1960s. The promotion encouraged people to shop in Archbold for the holiday season. Notice the top prize was three ponies! Doesn’t every child want a pony?

Collision In Parking Lot



A two-vehicle collision occurred in the parking lot in front of the Savvy Dog Pet Boutique about 12:15 pm, Tuesday, March 12, an Archbold police report states. A sport utility vehicle, driven by Kim Kessler, 58, rural Fayette, was traveling north in the parking lot, with passenger Stacie Britsen, 43, Archbold, while a car, driven by Halie Starkey, 18, Napoleon, […]

Rover Pipeline Paid More Than $550,000 To Archbold Schools For Henry County Taxes



Rover Pipeline paid $550,034.07 in property taxes to Archbold Schools based on assets in Henry County alone. Combined with the $692,256.28 the company paid in Fulton County taxes to the school, the district received $1,242,290.35 in total revenue from the pipeline. The amounts are for money paid by Rover in taxes for Tax Year 2018, payable in 2019. The Archbold […]

Corrections



In last week’s issue of this newspaper, there was incorrect information in the Rover Pipeline article and the accompanying chart. The last paragraph of the article listed the benefit to the school district as $6.9 million. The figure is incorrect. Also, the chart listed a figure of $645,582.40. That figure is also incorrect. The Archbold School District is the largest […]

Gladieux, Sauder, Ahs Boys 4×100 Win Events At Early Bird Invite



Archbold’s Matthew Gladieux was a double winner in the boys discus and shot put, Kylie Sauder won the girls 800-meter race, and the boys 4×100-meter relay team won at the Napoleon Early Bird Track Invitational, Saturday, March 23. No team scores are kept at the invite. Also participating were Napoleon, Wauseon, Liberty Center, Evergreen, and St. Ursula Academy. Girls (Top […]