MONTEZUMA - A site under construction along Prairie Creek is starting to resemble a nature-lover's paradise.
The 20-acre plot next to Aqua View Estates in Montezuma is a testing ground, of sorts, where phosphorus is being removed from the creek before it enters Grand Lake. Soon grasses and other plants - designed to absorb phosphorus that feeds the lake's harmful blue-green algae - will be planted throughout the landscape as part of the Prairie Creek Treatment Train. [More]
Area librarians are asking for patrons' patience as they transition to an updated computer system this month.
Mercer County District Public Library in Celina and its branches in Mendon, Chickasaw and St. Henry will be closed Thursday, when the system goes live, Celina librarian Liz Muether said. [More]
CELINA - It's that time of the year when Canada geese sojourn as they tend to their goslings and wait for new feathers before returning to regular flight.
FORT RECOVERY - Both high school foreign language teachers are leaving the district and school officials are scrambling to hire at least one instructor for next year.
Kelly Westgerdes generally makes her rounds collecting Avon orders from longtime customers. She has a new purpose in her steps these days as she prepares to participate in the 10th annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
Below the backdrop of the Great Smokey Mountains in Wears Valley, Tenn., Bev (Schumm) Barkley passes her summer afternoons spreading mulch, cutting grass and planting flowers beneath the 90-degree heat that continuously beats down throughout the Tennessee Valley.
