It's a mournful tune, Taps. Played over a deceased loved one, it rarely fails to bring a tear.
It's significance is well rooted in history as are almost all modern funeral customs: mourners in black, placing a sheet over the deceased's body, funeral dinners, offering floral arrangements.
Celina city officials are moving forward with plans to go through a legal process to dispel lingering legal questions about a proposed lakefront walkway. [More]
WAPAKONETA - Funeral home directors will have to use a specialized computer program to complete death certificates beginning in January, a new mandate from the Ohio Department of Health says.
NEW BREMEN - The Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (MR/DD) issued six citations to the Auglaize County adult group home during a recent licensure review.
NEW BREMEN - If at first you don't succeed, try again could very well be the motto for New Bremen village councilors as they pursue another source of funding for the proposed Centennial Park project.
COLDWATER - Kinder-garten Coordinator Susan Georg told board members meeting Tuesday night that the new all-day, everyday kindergarten class is going really well.
COLDWATER - Coldwater Exempted Village Schools will pay for refinishing the floors in the Palace, the main gymnasium at the high school.
School board members meeting Tuesday unanimously approved paying Majestic Floors, Celina, $18,950 for refinishing the floors. The work was done last month.
Local couple's BioKleen products can be used to wash boats right in the water
Spray on, wipe off and watch it trickle harmlessly from the boat into the lake.
It's that easy, Richard and Angela Leis say about their new, biodegradable boat cleaning agent that packs a powerful, non-caustic punch - leaving both surfaces and the environment undefiled.
ST. HENRY - As most local volleyball fans know the perennial power the St. Henry Redskins have stumbled out of the gates to start the 2006 season losing five of the first nine, albeit four of the five losses have come against Division I teams. [More]
ANNA - With both teams undefeated and ranked number one in their respective divisions, the Marion Local-Anna volleyball match on Tuesday had the makings of an all-out barnburner. [More]
St. Henry earned its spot to battle for the final unbeaten spot in Midwest Athletic Conference girls golf after beating Coldwater in an unusual tri-match on Tuesday at Northmoor.
ST. MARYS - The Minster Wildcats were looking to jump start their season after a sluggish start, while the home-standing St. Marys Roughriders were hoping to build on their momentum gained from their first win of the season last night against Lima Senior.
