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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
Toxin level remains high
Scum on Grand Lake shoreline makes unusual appearance
By Nancy Allen
GRAND LAKE - The lake doesn't look good.
Blue-green algae toxin levels recorded in recent weeks were the highest they've been all year, and much of the Celina shoreline was coated with slimy growth on Tuesday.
Ohio EPA spokeswoman Dina Pierce said toxin levels may have doubled in October due to algae dying off as temperatures dropped. [More]
Process begins to fire teacher
Fort Recovery man collects antique lights
By William Kincaid
FORT RECOVERY - Board of education members took steps Tuesday night to fire a high school teacher indicted on three counts of sexual battery involving a former student.
Superintendent Shelly Vaughn recommended the termination of Christopher Alan Summers, 32, 671 Woodland Ave., St. Henry, for sexual conduct involving a student and for insubordination. [More]
Entrepreneurs show their work
By Christine Henderson
CELINA - Students had the opportunity to meet and network with local business people at a recent expo.
Chambers of commerce for Celina, Fort Recovery, Rockford, St. Henry, St. Marys and Southwest Auglaize County sponsored the expo Nov. 14 at the Galleria in Celina. About 240 students from New Knoxville, New Bremen, Marion and Parkway schools attended the morning session. Jeff Monfort of McDonald's restaurant spoke, and students learned about various career paths. [More]
Obituaries on November 21st, 2012
Pennie Sheets-Sanderson
Pennie Lynn Sheets-Sanderson, 47, Rockford, died at 1:54 a.m. Nov. 20, 2012, at the James Cancer Center, Ohio State University. [More]
Barbara Dameron
Barbara M. Dameron, 75, Coldwater, died Nov. 19, 2012, at the Gardens, Celina.
She was born April 26, 1937, in Celina to Edward and Odelia Bomholt Smelser. [More]
Rickey Isbell
Rickey Isbell, 45, St. Marys, died at 3:05 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012, in the emergency [More]
William Now
William F. Now, 84, Rockford, died Nov. 20, 2012, at Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wa [More]
Local pictures on November 21st, 2012
Subscriber stories on November 21st, 2012
Gasoline not cheap for holiday travelers
Local residents may have lots of things to be thankful for this year, but cheap gasoline isn't one of them.
Ohio's Thanksgiving Day travelers are the only ones in the country paying about 8 cents per gallon more at the pump than last month and nearly 20 cents more than a year ago.
Local man $1 million richer after scratching winning lottery ticket
ROCKFORD - Life will likely change a bit for a Motor Inn truck stop regular who scratched off a winning $1 million lottery ticket during a recent visit.
Murder suspect still on the run
ROCKFORD - Authorities continue to search for a 40-year-old Rockford man who allegedly murdered his girlfriend.
Daniel C. Martin, 509 W. North St., is wanted in connection with the Nov. 8 shooting of 26-year-old Melinda "Mindi" S. Shinn.
Appeals court upholds grandson's murder conviction
VAN WERT - An Ohio appeals court this week upheld the conviction of a Van Wert man who was sentenced more than a year ago for murdering his grandmother.
Auto business transfers ownership, county loan
A Coldwater business and the county loan it received two years ago are changing hands.
Mercer County Commissioners on Tuesday approved the transfer
Students taught goodwill through program
FORT RECOVERY - Middle school students continue to export goodwill to Africa through the seventh annual Operation Christmas Child program.
Students filled 116 shoe boxes with practical gifts such as toothbrushes and sent them to North Carolina, where they will be shipped over the Atlantic Ocean.
Village finishing repair work from June storm
MINSTER - The last repair work following a June storm is under way at Four Seasons Park.
Village administrator Don Harrod told council members that park department employees are working with Rural Iron Fence Company to replace damaged poles and backstops at Diamond V.
Rockford council cancels meeting
ROCKFORD - The regular Rockford Village Council meeting was canceled Tuesday due to the lack of a quorum.
Council members Steve Gehle, Gary Hodge a
Chicago concert blows audience away
TROY - With only a few buttons of his black dress shirt snugged into place and his collar flipped-up, 65-year-old trombonist and founding member of jazz-rock band Chicago James Pankow hasn't let age impede his swagger.
McComb standing in the way of Flyers returning to state title game
Tim Goodwin admitted that getting ready for this week's playoff game has been fun.
For the first time since Week 11, the Flyers will be facing a new team as Blanchard Valley Conference champion McComb will be the opponent in this week's Division VI state semifinal at Harmon Field in Wapakoneta.
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