Wapakoneta, Ohio

• Parsons: Setting budget a 'fantasy'
  

  By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor An agreement has been reached between the Wapakoneta City Schools Board of Education and the Wapakoneta Classified Association covering the next two years.

• Fisher COOL on U.S. labels
  

  By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor An agreement has been reached between the Wapakoneta City Schools Board of Education and the Wapakoneta Classified Association covering the next two years.

• Day of Caring date slated
  

  By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor With a grant expected to help with new sidewalk construction in 2010, Wapakoneta City Council members are expected to vote on an ordinance tonight to only replace existing sidewalks throughout the city next summer.

• Donations fill WHS lab
  

  By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor Through donations from Proctor and Gamble, Wapakoneta High School has a new computer lab as part of its renovations.

• Advocating agriculture: FFA honors top students
  

  By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor Of Ohio's 88 counties, Auglaize ranks as sixth most healthy.

• Blood clinics set for area
  

  By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor Through donations from Proctor and Gamble, Wapakoneta High School has a new computer lab as part of its renovations.

• Rate hike, fee in works: Wapak City Council Utilities Committee to recommend increases to sewer bill
  

  By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor Faced with no money in a emergency reserve fund coupled with a $17 million mandated sewer replacement project, residents are likely to see city sewer rates rise.

• C'ville works to hold onto history
  

  By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor Faced with no money in a emergency reserve fund coupled with a $17 million mandated sewer replacement project, residents are likely to see city sewer rates rise.

• Leadership remains the same: Campbell renamed director, Engle elected chair
  

  By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor Representatives from an international real estate firm talked with members of a local business organization about how they could help market Wapakoneta's Job Ready Sites manufacturing site.

• Elections, county work on contract for equipment
  

  By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor For the fourth consecutive year, Ohio earned Site Selection magazine's Governor's Cup Award and Wapakoneta ranked in the top 20 of micropolitans for new and expanded facilities in 2009.

• Sailing a top hobby for ED
  

  By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor For the fourth consecutive year, Ohio earned Site Selection magazine's Governor's Cup Award and Wapakoneta ranked in the top 20 of micropolitans for new and expanded facilities in 2009.

• Call to get real: WAEDC looks into using global real estate firm
  

  By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor Representatives from an international real estate firm talked with members of a local business organization about how they could help market Wapakoneta's Job Ready Sites manufacturing site.

• Murder, break-in likely not connected, sheriffs say
  

  By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor The new state-of-the-art $7 million Wapakoneta Water Plant is expected to go on-line later in the spring, city administrators say, are talks about a water rate hike should start soon.

• Upset Calif. woman stabs self
  

  Upset Calif. woman stabs self By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor A California woman upset over an alleged rape Saturday stabbed herself in the leg in Wapakoneta on Sunday.

• Steinke new city treasurer
  

  By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor After more than two weeks in the city treasurer's post, Wapakoneta's mayor says he has faith in the new city official fulfilling the position's duties.

• Dog warden to seek more dog tags
  

  By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor After more than two weeks in the city treasurer's post, Wapakoneta's mayor says he has faith in the new city official fulfilling the position's duties.

• Tsunami sets off panic but does little damage
  

  Kay Kunkleman, left, of Lima, Ohio, and Becky Jacobs, right, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, look over some pictures they took of themselves on a deserted Waikiki Beach in Honolulu on Saturday, Feb.

• Board approves candidate petitions
  

  By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor Severance plans for 17 eligible employees were accepted Tuesday by the Wapakoneta City Schools Board of Education members.

• Sheriff Probes Armed Robbery In Union Township
  

  Wednesday, 24 February 2010 By KAREN CAMPBELL Staff Writer WAPAKONETA - Deputies and detectives with the Auglaize County Sheriff's Office continue to investigate today an armed robbery and home invasion which occurred late Tuesday morning in Union Township.

City Description

Wapakoneta (pronounced /ˌwɑːpɑːkəˈnɛtə/, WAH-pah-kə-NET-tə) is a city in and the county seat of Auglaize County, Ohio, United States with a population of 9,474 as of the 2000 U.S. census. It is the principal city of and is included in the Wapakoneta, Ohio Micropolitan S A, which is included in the Lima-Van Wert-Wapakoneta, Ohio CSA. The community is served by the Wapakoneta City School District. The city is the birthplace of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon; the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum is located in Wapakoneta. Oscar-winning screenwriter Dudley Nichols and romance novel writer Jennifer Crusie were also born in the city. Wapakoneta is a sister city to Lengerich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Wapakoneta was an important site to the Ottawa Native Americans prior to leaving Ohio. By 1798, the Shawnee Native Americans had made Wapakoneta their headquarters. By 1808, there were reports of more than five hundred Shawnees, Senecas, and Mingo Native Americans living at Wapakoneta, including Black Hoof. The Native Americans of Wapakoneta adopted the agricultural methods that the missionaries from the Society of Friends had introduced to them. The Native

City Contained By:

• Auglaize County
• Ohio

City Contains:

• Auglaize County Courthouse
• St. Joseph Catholic Church and School

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 14.7629322289 km squared

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