Other county departments remain on wage freeze for second consecutive year
Despite a countywide wage freeze, the Mercer County health department staff will get raises next year.
Following an executive session Wednesday, the Mercer County-Celina City Health Department approved a 1 1/2 percent cost of living adjustment for all employees.
COLDWATER - Watershed coordinator Laura Walker is looking for groups to adopt floating wetlands being used to restore Grand Lake.
Aquatic wetland plants absorb phosphorous, the main food source of the lake's toxic blue-green algae which plagued the lake the past two summers.
The Rev. Armin Russi walked into the Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics with a smile on his face.
"It's like being home," said the Benedictine monk from Switzerland who arrived at the local facility this week during his year-long stay in the U.S.
ST. ROSE - A St. Rose parish farm wife joined some neighborhood wives 40 years ago in monthly adoration at the Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics, and at the age of 91, she still attends when her health permits.
MARIA STEIN - Marion Local girls basketball coach Treva Fortkamp called it a typical Minster-Marion Local girls basketball matchup.
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Celina opened the Western Buckeye League girls basketball season with a thriller at the Supreme Court in Ottawa, as the Bulldogs edged Ottawa-Glandorf 35-32 on Thursday night.
ST. HENRY - It's early in the season, and New Knoxville girls basketball head coach Tim Hegemier has the right to be concerned about the continuing development of his young squad.
NEW BREMEN - Youth versus experience is always a tough matchup for the youngsters, but when the veterans toss in some smothering pressure defense, things get a lot worse.
A 36-year-old Middle Point man, who escaped from a Van Wert County Sheriff's deputy and was located at the home of a Mendon-area relative on Thanksgiving Day, has been indicted on charges of rape and escape.
