Van Wert

[van wurt]

noun

1. a city in NW Ohio.

Example Sentences

On Nov. 15, currently unknown culprits attacked a mink farm known as Lion Farms USA in Van Wert County, Ohio.

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Van Wert County is a flat, rural area with many farms.

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The owner of the Lion Farms USA mink farm in Hoaglin Township, which is about 150 miles north of Cincinnati and near Ohio’s border with Indiana, told the Van Wert County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday morning that someone had broken into the farm and opened cages that held somewhere between 25,000 to 40,000 mink.

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Sheriff Thomas Riggenbach of Van Wert County said that by Tuesday afternoon, farm employees had corralled most of the mink, but he advised residents that there were still about 10,000 mink unaccounted for.

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The manager of the mink farm in Van Wert County, Eddie Meyer, could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.

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