Frozen Celina pond offers inline hockey players a unique experience
By Nancy Allen
About 20 boys strapped on skates over the weekend for a few games of ice hockey in Celina.
Where's the ice rink in Celina you ask? It's on a pond behind Matt Berry's home in the Wheatland Acres housing subdivision.
Berry is one of several volunteers who oversees the Celina-based Wings-N-Wheels inline roller hockey league, which holds weekly practices at the Mercer County Junior Fair Building in town. [More]
Judge orders Jesse McDermitt to serve maximum sentence
By Shelley Grieshop
WAPAKONETA - A 19-year-old St. Marys man gave a brief apology Wednesday morning before a judge ordered him to serve four years in prison for placing a homemade bomb at a gas station 13 months ago.
Jesse McDermitt - described by the prosecution as "a danger to the community" - was given the maximum prison sentence allowed by law during the hearing in Auglaize County Common Pleas Court. He'll be eligible for parole after serving six months. [More]
George Kerns, 55, 523 Maple St., Celina, and formerly of Maine, California and Indiana, died at 10:25 a.m. Jan. 13, 2010, at his home. Death was due to cancer. [More]
ST. MARYS - Board members kicked off the new year with a full agenda Wednesday night and comments of unrest from several community members on a wide variety of matters, including location of the athletic facility and demolition of the present high school building.
FORT RECOVERY - The school district's technology department will reduce spending by nearly $10,000 in fiscal year 2010 by focusing its resources on a terminal server and related equipment.
NEW BREMEN - Voters will decide the fate of a 1-mill permanent improvement levy renewal in May as a result of action taken by the New Bremen Local Schools board of education Monday night.
A pair of teams playing their best basketball of the season will matchup at McBroom Gymnasium on Friday night as Grand Lake rivals Celina and St. Marys meet up in their annual Western Buckeye League tilt.
After hovering near the middle of the pack in the Midwest Athletic Conference for several seasons, the winter of 1992-1993 was remarkable for Fort Recovery boy's coach Jeff Roessner and his Indians, as they forged through the regular season with a 17-3 mark.
