Friday, April 17th, 2009
Carving by local artist Phil Wood will be unveiled on May 3
By William Kincaid
FORT RECOVERY - Armed with only a frying pan, "Red-Haired Nance" was one of only a few to survive Gen. Arthur St. Clair's devastating defeat by American Indians at Fort Recovery in 1791.
Now, the firebrand's image has been carved into a life-size wooden statue by 45-year-old Fort Recovery artist Phil Wood. [More]
By Mike Ernst
It started innocently enough with a short conversation in 2003 for Coldwater's Chuck Sanning and St. Henry's Bill Dues.
Sanning was going to help Maumee's Brian Ruhlman build a modified to race at Eldora Speedway. Sanning, who was on the crew that led ARCA driver Bob Brevak to the 1990 series championship, shared some of his ideas with Dues, who also had spent some time racing asphalt late models in the late '80s and early '90s. [More]
By Gary R. Rasberry
COLDWATER - Parkway batters took advantage of nine walks issued by Coldwater pitching and benefited from a four-hit pitching effort from Emily Crowell to open Midwest Athletic Conference play with an 8-1 win over the Cavaliers at Lady Cav Diamond.
The Panthers, coming off a pair of losses against two solid pitchers on Saturday, improve to 3-3 overall and 1-0 in the MAC while Coldwater drops to 5-3 on the season and 0-1 in league play. [More]
Obituaries on April 17th, 2009
George R. Hoenie, 86, of Celina, died at 9:27 a.m. April 16, 2009, at Mercer Co [More]
Marcella "Marcie" Katterheinrich, 96, 218 N. Main St., New Knoxville, died at 9:23 p.m. April 15, 2009, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys. [More]
Ruth E. Prescott, 83, of Ridgeville, Ind., died at 10:56 p.m. April 14, 2009, at Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie, Ind. [More]
L. Paul "Big P" Staugler, 55, 202 Washington St., Fort Recovery, died at 1:10 p.m. April 16, 2009, at his residence. Death was due to cancer. [More]
Local pictures on April 17th, 2009
Subscriber stories on April 17th, 2009
A petition drive is underway in Ohio to put an amendment on the November election ballot to allow casino gambling at four locations in the state.
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Wright State University-Lake Campus and the Grand Lake Law Enforcement Academy have forged a partnership leading to a new four-year criminal justice degree program at the campus.
Testing of the new emergency radio system is going well and officials hope to have the equipment ready to go online by the end of this month.
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ST. MARYS - Not all poems rhyme; and not all poets can be called troubadours as was the poet at the library Thursday night.
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Celina Police Department is now using its successful Radar Hot Spot program to help reduce traffic crashes within the city.
"Statistics show the program does have a positive effect on reducing the number of accidents," Chief Dave Slusser told The Daily Standard.
COLDWATER - The New Bremen baseball team was averaging nine runs per game this season, but that was before the Midwest Athletic Conference opener on Thursday at Veterans Field in Coldwater.
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Celina scored seven times in the top of the seventh to come back and beat Fort Recovery 8-3 on the road Thursday, moving the Bulldogs to 3-6 and Fort Recovery to 3-2 on the season.
MINSTER - New Bremen used extra-base power and solid defense to support a great pitching performance from senior Stacy Timmerman as the Cardinals opened Midwest Athletic Conference play with a 7-1 win over the Minster Wildcats on Thursday afternoon at Four Seasons Park.