CELINA - The thrill of airborne dogs, kids wrestling livestock and a frog-hopping competition awaits visitors to this year's Mercer County Fair.
The 162nd annual event kicks off Friday and continues though Aug. 14 at the fairgrounds in Celina. About two dozen new events and entertainers will debut, fair manager Cara Muhlenkamp said. [More]
ST. MARYS - Local OSU Extension officials are using an area farm to test a different technique for planting winter cover crops.
On Wednesday morning, farmer Stanley Brown used his seed drill to plant cover crops in wheat stubble on his farm along state Route 364, southwest of St. Marys. Later in the afternoon, VanTilburg Farms officials used a seeder with 90-foot-wide booms to plant cover crops in rows of 8-foot-tall corn on the farm. [More]
CELINA - A Putnam County man received a lifetime commercial driving license suspension for a traffic accident last fall that claimed the life of a Portland, Ind., man.
KETTERING - A rotating cast of former superstars rolled into the Fraze Pavilion Wednesday night, giving a decidedly long-in-the-tooth crowd exactly what it came for: a barrage of booty-shaking, guitar-fueled hits from the golden age of rock radio.
