SIDNEY - Christopher Lee Harris showed no emotion as he entered Shelby County Common Pleas Court on Thursday afternoon and pleaded guilty to the April 5 kidnapping, rape and murder of an elderly Fort Loramie woman.
Don't plant seeds until after the apple trees bloom. Peas should be planted as near to 12 noon as possible. Gardens do better if seeds are planted on the even-numbered days of the month. Wood cut on light nights will burn hotter.
Those are some of roughly a gazillion old weather lore sayings lurking around on the Internet and more often than not somewhere in your own or your neighbor's ancestry. [More]
The weather might not be hospitable to softball, but local players have been getting some playing time in.
One player who has started her college career off right is former Celina product Melanie Heyne, now that she's made the move to Lake Land College in Illinois. [More]
Celina will apply for up to $500,000 in Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) grant money to add enhancements to the planned reconstruction of several blocks of West Market Street.
More money needed to make conservation financially attractive
Local agriculture and watershed officials want additional funds to increase farmer participation in a USDA program to improve water quality in the Grand Lake and Wabash River watersheds.
Theresa May was hired Thursday as a technician for the Mercer County Soil and Water Conservation District following an almost 90-minute executive session conducted by SWCD board members.
NEW BREMEN - Mayor Jeff Pape had reason to smile as he recounted achievements of the past year during the annual New Bremen Community Improvement Corp. luncheon Thursday afternoon.
Mercer County commissioners accepted the lowest of three bids Thursday for removal of logjams in a 10-mile stretch of the St. Marys River from Frysinger Road to the Mercer-Van Wert County line.
A new area ministry is expected to help feed a wide variety of local people in need of a helping hand.
Angel Food Ministries, a national non-profit program that began 11 years ago in Georgia, was started several months ago in Celina as a test program and was deemed successful.
With other sporting events called off by wind, cold and rain that eventually turned into snow and sleet, Celina's track team braved the elements to hold their regularly scheduled meet on Thursday.
