Two resident pairs of bald eagles nesting on Grand Lake have hatched an undetermined number of young, reported volunteer eagle watcher Jill Bowers of St. Marys on Monday.
Bowers has recorded information on Grand Lake's eagles for a number of years for the Ohio Division of Wildlife. [More]
ST. HENRY - Six elementary students approached the school board Monday night in a quest to build a flower garden on school property.
The St. Henry fourth-grade students and their teacher, Sharon Chatwood, sought permission to build a 22-by-13-foot garden at the edge of the elementary building to use as a learning tool for all students at the school. [More]
Deb Eschmeyer trying to get locally grown food into school cafeterias
By Nancy Allen
Debra Eschmeyer remembers working in her family's garden as a little girl, hoeing weeds and eating ripe tomatoes and peas off the vine. The hoeing was hard work, she said, but the delicious, homegrown vegetables the work yielded were worth it.
Today she works at the fifth-generation Eschmeyer family farm in New Knoxville channeling her passion for homegrown food into a job that makes it available to more people. [More]
Celina Mayor Sharon LaRue on Monday night wanted an ordinance passed as an emergency that would have allowed her to hire and pay a local resident as much as $60,000 to become a downtown grant coordinator.
MINSTER - The Superintendent's Student Advisory Committee will host a State of the State meeting Wednesday night to update the community on how the state and the Minster Local Schools are preparing for the changes and challenges in education during the 21st century.
WAPAKONETA - The Auglaize County Health Board has terminated the tedious task of counting each pen, tape measure and other small items for inventory purposes.
COLDWATER - Councilors heard first reading of the village's three-year renewable contract with Klenke Trash Service LLC.
Klenke's, whose current contract with the village expires in May, collects and disposes of the village's garbage and other refuse, yard waste and recyclable material.
