Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
Pair will be inducted during basketball game on Friday
By Kathy Thompson
ST. HENRY - A pediatric heart doctor and a retired historian will join the St. Henry Schools Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame Friday night.
Dr. Douglas A. Balster, 42, who graduated in 1990 and now lives in California, and Dr. Allen W. Bernard, Ph.D., 70, a 1962 graduate now living in Cincinnati, will be honored between the boys junior varsity and varsity basketball games Friday. [More]
By Robb Hemmelgarn
As the Minster Wildcats prepare to host the New Bremen Cardinals in one of our area's historic basketball rivalries, the gymnasium inside Minster Middle School will be an understandably busy place tomorrow evening.
Diagonally across the parking lot however, the middle school gym's "little brother" will rest dark and vacant just as it has on Friday and Saturday nights during basketball season for more than a decade. [More]
Obituaries on January 22nd, 2015
Arlene Mary Bruns Dierker, Portland, Ore., and formerly of St. Henry and Hope, Idaho, died Jan. 8, 2015. [More]
Glenna G. Goewert, 91, Ansonia, passed away in the early morning of Jan. 21, 2015, at Mercer County Community Hospital, Coldwater. [More]
Denny Conner Howell's journey came to an end Jan. 20, 2015. He was 63 years old [More]
Mary Jane Roode, 91, New Knoxville, died at 11:38 p.m. Jan. 20, 2015, at Wilson Memorial Hospital, Sidney. [More]
Herman Hoying, 99, St. Henry, died the evening of Jan. 21, 2015, in Celina.
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Local pictures on January 22nd, 2015
Subscriber stories on January 22nd, 2015
Littin: Action would simplify hiring
CELINA - Health department officials may change the agency's job descriptions to make it easier to hire people in the future. The change also would result in a review of employees' current pay.
MINSTER - Village officials are asking the Third District Court of Appeals to uphold an Auglaize County Common Pleas judge's decision that a former police officer was properly terminated.
ODNR completed safety inspection in November
Wabash River Conservancy District officials expect good news from a state dam safety inspection performed last November.
"They do it every five yea
ST. MARYS - The recent purchase of a warehouse will allow a regional Rotary Club group to distribute medical supplies to more people.
The Rotary's
ST. MARYS - Local communities are coordinating their efforts to seek funding to improve the Miami-Erie Canal from Fort Loramie to Delphos.
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Authorities are looking into threats received at two area schools Wednesday.
At 12:11 p.m. St. Marys Police Department responded to a call of a student receiving a threatening text message while at Memorial High School.
NEW BREMEN - The University of Northwestern Ohio picked up a pair of New Bremen bowlers to add to its program as Kira Irick and Cody Springer signed with the Lima-based NAIA school on Wednesday. The pair became the first Cardinal bowlers to sign on to bowl at the collegiate level.
The first meeting between St. Henry and Marion Local was a good game.
The sequel could be even better.
When Friday night arrives, Redskin Gymn
Highlights & Insights
Timing is everything.
At this point in the swimming season, that statement couldn't be truer.
With the postseason on the horizon, peaking at t