Legislation could be introduced this year or next to set rules on farmers applying manufactured fertilizer to fields. Details of the rules are unknown.
Local farmers have wondered why the Grand Lake Watershed was designated distressed while the Lake Erie Western Basin Watershed was not. Both have suffered phosphorous-fed toxic algae blooms in recent years.
A group of doctors and scientists recently released a study claiming sugar is as addictive and unhealthy as tobacco and alcohol. Therefore, the government should regulate and tax sugar just like it does tobacco and alcohol to protect public health, the authors say.
A Celina man who earns a living doing farm work for others was sentenced to community control sanctions Wednesday afternoon in Mercer County Common Pleas Court for his role in rustling pigs from several area hog barns. [More]
When the two teams met for the first time, one could see the shyness between them.
For Parkway's softball team, it was a new experience in meeting the softball team from the Ohio School for the Deaf, where communication was done through sign language. [More]
Beneath an ideal backdrop of a sunny sky and the occasional spring breeze, Marion Local's head coach Bill Cheslock and his Flyers piled out of the school bus at Veterans Field Park in Coldwater during the spring of 1997 with full certainty of the wall they were about to plow into.
COLDWATER - Charles Fella was a key contributor to Coldwater's state championship boys' bowling team this past winter.
Now, the Cavaliers' senior will look to help the University of Northwestern Ohio's bowling team after signing a letter-of-intent with the NAIA school on Wednesday.
