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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Reed ends coaching career
By Gary R. Rasberry
COLDWATER - The successful career of head football coach John Reed is ending.
Reed has been battling esophageal cancer since he was diagnosed shortly before the Cavaliers began their playoff football run this past season. The Coldwater Exempted Village Schools board of education plans to accept his resignation tonight. [More]
Celina looks to sell land for business expansion
Grand Lake Warehousing wants to buy 12.5 acres in city's industrial park
By William Kincaid
CELINA - The city of Celina may sell 12.5 acres of its industrial park land to Grand Lake Warehousing, a new business expansion of Celina Moving & Storage.
Celina City Council members Monday night heard first reading of an ordinance detailing an agreement to sell land in the northeast corner of Grand Lake Industrial Park for $10,000 an acre. Council members Angie King, Myron Buxton, Mike Sovinski and June Scott all voted yes, while Bill Sell and Ed Jeffries voted no and Jeff Larmore abstained. [More]
Westrick steps down as Flyers' boy's coach
By Gary R. Rasberry
MARIA STEIN - If there is one word to describe the head boy's basketball coaching position at Marion Local, longevity would be it.
Keith Westrick stepped down as the Flyers' boy's coach on Monday at the Marion Local Board of Education meeting, serving 14 years as mentor of the Blue and Gold - and as an assistant coach for several years before that - and being just the third head coach for the program since 1973. [More]
Obituaries on April 13th, 2010
Edwin Oberlitner
Edwin Roy Oberlitner, 99, Hearth and Home, Van Wert, died at 4:50 p.m. April 10, 2010, at Van Wert Hospice-Inpatient Center. [More]
Robert Wendel
Robert J. Wendel, 85, 1543 Irmscher Blvd., Celina, died at 2 a.m. April 12, 2010, at Celina Manor Nursing Home. [More]
Charlotte Ann Wilson
Charlotte Ann Wilson, 73, 5550 Miller Road, Celina, died at 1:53 p.m. April 11, 2010, at St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima. [More]
Local pictures on April 13th, 2010
Subscriber stories on April 13th, 2010
Celina council has first reading on tax change
CELINA - More than 20 people filled city hall council chambers Monday night as council members approved first reading of an ordinance to rescind the city's 1-percent tax credit for Celina residents who work in other villages or cities.
Council OKs land swap to gain more greenspace
St. Marys
ST. MARYS - Council has approved trading spaces with a longtime city company in a land swap designed to increase greenspace.
Council members approved a resolution giving the go ahead on a trade of real estate between the city and the St. Marys Foundry.
Group meets to taste wine, bier
ST. MARYS - Wine, bier, cheese and chocolates, a St. Marys group is organizing a gourmet fundraiser all in the name of friendship and cultural understanding.
Trees to get axed
ST. HENRY - A row of evergreens near the village swimming pool are about to get the axe.
Village council members meeting Monday night gave the go-ahead to chop down the trees along Parkview Drive, which were deemed "dirty" and high-maintenance.
Man nets four years in prison for fatal crash
WAPAKONETA - A 22-year-old St. Marys man was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for supplying alcohol to an underage teen who died in a traffic accident in June.
Time running out to clean up rundown property
COLDWATER - Village council members have given the owner of a Main Street property a timeline to clean it up or face legal action.
Village Law Dire
Ring of thieves targeting several local counties
WAPAKONETA - A group of thieves are being blamed for numerous burglaries in the area, including several that occurred this past weekend in Auglaize County.
Rose delivers game-winning hit for Bulldogs
CELINA - Leah Rose's single with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning allowed Cassie Freeman to score the winning run as Celina won a Mercer County battle over Marion Local, 5-4, at Bill Feth Diamond on Monday night.
Parkway starts MAC schedule with a victory
FORT RECOVERY - There is an old adage in bat and ball sports: "Make contact with the ball, put it in play and good things will happen."
On Monday a
Stout nearly no-hits Tigers in MAC opener
Local Roundup
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
The St. Henry softball team held Versailles scoreless until the fifth inning and opened Midwest Athletic Conference play with a 12-1 win in five innings in Darke County.
Wheat acres down nationally, locally
A recently released USDA planting report predicts that U.S. farmers could plant record soybean acres this year, fewer corn acres than anticipated and even less soft red winter wheat.
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