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Friday, April 25th, 2008
By Nancy Allen
Three Geotubes containing liquid hog manure were opened Thursday at a Maria Stein hog farm, but reports that will show whether the technology is economically feasible to use as a manure management tool won't be done until June.
Grand Lake/Wabash Watershed Alliance Coordinator Laura Walker reported the information Thursday during a meeting of the alliance's joint board of supervisors. [More]
By Nancy Allen
It will be a battle between students from St. Marys and Celina to see who can pick up the most trash during Saturday's annual cleanup around Grand Lake from 9 a.m. to noon.
The winner will win bragging rights and a traveling trophy that hopefully will be reused year after year, said Grand Lake St. Marys State Park Manager Craig Morton. [More]
By Robb Hemmelgarn
MINSTER - In a mid-week triangular meet featuring a trio of neighboring MAC schools, the Minster Wildcats played host to the Marion Local Flyers and the New Bremen Cardinals and sent their guests home with defeats on both the boys and girls side.
Although Minster's rosters were depleted, with most of their squads on a band trip to Florida, they were both still able to hold off their opponents to record the clean sweep. [More]
Obituaries on April 25th, 2008
Bartel Ahlers, 88, of Coldwater, died April 25, 2008, in Georgetown.
Arrangem [More]
Mary Rita Borger, 86, of St. Henry, died April 25, 2008, in Coldwater.
The time of Monday's funeral mass was not established by press time. [More]
Wilma Gertrude Deitsch, 94, 806 W. Market St., Celina, died at 12:25 a.m. April 23, 2008, at the Laurels of Shane Hill, Rockford. [More]
Former Mercer County resident Christine E. George, 57, of Houston, Texas, died March 25, 2008, in Houston. Death was due to natural causes. [More]
Linda J. Knox, 57, of Celina, died April 24, 2008 of natural causes, at Mercer [More]
Former Fort Recovery resident Ruth R. Matchett, 86, 842 Chestnut Circle, Greenv [More]
Paul E. Sanders, 79, of Celina, died April 24, 2008, at Otterbein-St. Marys Ret [More]
Local pictures on April 25th, 2008
Subscriber stories on April 25th, 2008
A St. Marys company is one of 55 statewide that have committed to a voluntary reduction of toxin releases, according to a press release this week from the Ohio EPA.
WAPAKONETA - Artist Anna Talei Fisher's country home is perched on a rise overlooking a meadow with a large pond. Through her kitchen window she watches spring brush away the remains of a long winter.
COLDWATER - Support staff at Mercer Health will receive a minimum 3 percent raise each year during the next three years following approval this month of their union contract with hospital board members.
COLDWATER - Olympic medalist and former world record holder Jim Ryun struggled with self-doubt as a boy and didn't find his gift of distance running until high school.
MINSTER - Concerns about several streets prompted discussion when village councilors met Wednesday night.
The state Route 66/Fourth Street improvem
Final permits to install a new hen house that can hold 375,000 additional birds at Ross-Medford Farms in Darke County has been approved by the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA).
NEW BREMEN - A recent mission trip to a poverty-stricken area of Grenada gave youth leader Robin Goettemoeller an idea.
Perhaps a group of youths w
St. Henry - The St. Henry Redskins continued a great week of baseball Thursday afternoon as they stayed alive in the Midwest Athletic Conference by defeating the Fort Recovery Indians 3-2 in conference play at the Wally Post Athletic Complex.
ROCKFORD - Marion Local continued its hot streak in softball, taking advantage of eight Parkway errors and strong pitching by Michelle Fleck to take a 11-0 win over the Panthers at Shane's Park.
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
St. Henry stayed perfect in MAC play as Michelle Stout flirted with a no-hitter as the Redskins downed Fort Recovery 6-0 on Thursday. The Redskins improve to 6-4 and 3-0 in the MAC. The Indians drop to 4-8 and 0-3.