Flood Warning issued September 18 at 12:21AM EDT until September 18 at 8:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues. * WHERE...Northwestern Auglaize County in west central Ohio... Mercer County in west central Ohio... * WHEN...Until 800 AM EDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Numerous roads remain closed due to flooding. Expect many areas of slow moving or standing water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 1218 AM EDT, radar indicated scattered thunderstorms developing which contain moderate to heavy rainfall. Flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the warned area. Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are possible in the warned area over the next hour or two. - Some locations that may experience flooding include... Celina, St. Marys, Coldwater, New Bremen, Rockford, Wabash, Mendon, Chickasaw, Montezuma, Tama, Neptune, Carthagena, Bulkhead, State Route 116 at State Route 197, Chattanooga and Kossuth.
Rosella F. "Sally" Monnier, 87, of Marker Road, Versailles, and formerly of Sawmill Road, Fort Loramie, died at 2:08 p.m. Friday at Wayne Hospital, Greenville. [More]
Todd Mangen, director of the Ohio State University Extension office in Mercer County, will be out of a job in May as a direct result of funding shortfalls at the state level. [More]
Several Mercer County bars, bowling alleys, clubs and their patrons dug into their pockets during tough times and helped collected nearly $5,000 recently for a St. Anthony soldier seriously injured Jan. 8 while serving in Afghanistan.
St. Marys senior Paul Lauth completed his high school wrestling career with a victory to earn Division II All-Ohio status at the 2009 State Wrestling Tournament at the Schottenstein Center on the campus of The Ohio State University on Saturday.
