Ottawa County’s Special Olympics basketball team had a great first season for the 2011–2012 year. We spent a lot of time learning to be a team on and off the court. We started meeting weekly for practices and the players chose to be the Ottawa County Rockets with blue and white as our colors. During practice, […]
Sixteen year old Emily McLargin of Genoa, Ohio has clinched the 2011/2012 state title! On Saturday, March 31, 2012, level 8 gymnasts from all over the state gathered in Heath, Ohio to compete for the title. Emily placed 1st on vault, 1st on beam, and 2nd on floor. She did not place in the top 5 […]
By Yaneek Smith Sports Writer For nearly everyone, the Olympic Games are merely a spectator sport. During the 18 days the sporting events take place, people across the world watch as some of the greatest athletes on the planet compete in a bevy of sports, only dreaming that one day it might be them on stage with […]
A total of forty-four Oak Harbor DECA members qualified to compete at the Ohio DECA Career Development Conference held on March 16th and 17th at the Columbus Convention Center. Over two-thousand DECA members from 111 schools across the state competed at this event. The Oak Harbor chapter is a satellite program of Penta Career Center. […]
By Yaneek Smith Sports Writer Oak Harbor 9, Woodmore 6 After Woodmore took a 1–0 lead in the top-half of the first inning, Oak Harbor responded with two runs to take the lead for good before adding one run apiece in the third and fifth innings to go up, 4–1, before claiming the 9–6 victory. The […]
At the regular board meeting on Tuesday night, district officials honored three State Qualifiers in Wrestling and one State Qualifier in Diving, the three state wrestlers were Alex Bergman, Luke Cramer and Jared Chambers and the state diver is Bryce Buderer. Board President Dornbusch presented to the attendees a presentation on the current state of […]
(AP) OAK HARBOR, Ohio — Faced with the prospect of closing, a small Catholic elementary school has come up with a plan — and the cash — to keep operating. Supporters of St. Boniface School in Oak Harbor, which has just 34 children in grades K-5, raised more than $100,000 in two months and devised a […]
The Oak Harbor/Penta FFA Agriculture Sales Team placed 3rd at the State Agricultural Sales Career Development Event on Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 in the Agriculture Administration Building in Columbus, Ohio. The sales team consisted of Ashley Buhrow, Micah Mensing, Logan Bahnsen, and Austin Schimming. The Career Development Event is composed of an objective test, sales demonstration, and […]