Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Celina
By Shelley Grieshop
The principal of Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Celina is leaving her post to accept a director's position at an expanding local family resource agency.
Kathy Mescher, who has worked at IC for 31 years - 18 as principal - was hired last week to head up OUR Home Family Resource Center. The agency recently announced a merger with Family Crisis Network, which offers similar services to individuals and families in the county. Both are located in the same building at 117 W. Fayette St. [More]
By Margie Wuebker
NEW BREMEN - The New Bremen-New Knoxville Rotary Club will kick off its Sunshine Project on Saturday, with a goal of helping special needs children and their families in Auglaize and Mercer counties.
Kristin Hough of St. Marys spearheaded the effort after the loss of her niece, Camryn Nicole Murgatroyd, on May 8, 2009. [More]
By Mark Ruschau
ST. HENRY - The 2010 Midwest Athletic Conference softball title is back in play as the St. Henry Redskins used two first inning scores, strong defense and a great pitching performance by senior Michelle Stout to defeat the Parkway Panthers 2-0 Wednesday afternoon at the Wally Post Athletic Complex. [More]
Obituaries on May 6th, 2010
Paul I. Garman, 90, 11279 East Drive, St. Marys, died at 8:03 p.m. May 4, 2010, at St. Marys Living Center. [More]
Local pictures on May 6th, 2010
Subscriber stories on May 6th, 2010
CELINA - The city is hoping to net more state money for downtown improvements.
Celina Downtown Manager Deb Borns told members of the Celina Merchants Association at a meeting this week that the city is applying for another $400,000 through the state's Comprehensive Downtown Revitalization Program.
Selling equipment
CELINA - Items discarded by Mercer County agencies will be sold privately to avoid expenses involved in organizing a public sale, officials said this week.
Wright State
CELINA - Standing in the new Dicke Auditorium at Wright State University-Lake Campus, Dean Jim Sayer called it the crown jewel of the recent renovation project. He spoke to St. Marys Rotarians who met at the campus Wednesday for their weekly luncheon.
St. Marys City Schools
ST. MARYS - Bids for the school's new maintenance building came in Wednesday 4.6 percent under estimate.
Baumer Construction of Minster is the appa
Previous bid rejected for insufficient bond
CELINA - Bids for a new Mercer County ambulance again are being accepted after a previous bid was rejected.
The only bid previously received by com
WAPAKONETA - Don't mess with their mothers and know these are capricious women with a penchant for wildness and whiskey-guzzling.
Those are just a few of the warnings - or blunt assertions - sung by the refreshingly unpretentious and self-assured trio of women in Those Darlins.
NEW BREMEN - How Martin Holdren got his opportunity to head to Olivet College in Michigan is best described as a happy accident.
The New Bremen golfer was originally looking online for Olivet Nazarene University in Illinois, an NAIA college near Chicago.
One More Curtain Call
The dramatics of the afternoon could not have been scripted any more climactic for Hank Schwieterman and the Coldwater Cavalier girls' track and field team.
The long and winding road which the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series travels rolls into Eldora Speedway this Friday and Saturday night with a another tight point race shaping up.
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
Parkway gave up two runs in the top of the sixth, allowing St. John's to pick up a 3-1 win in a rare Wednesday Midwest Athletic Conference baseball matchup at Don Black Field in Rockford. The Panthers drop to 9-10 with the loss.