Friday, January 12th, 2018
Obituaries on January 12th, 2018
Lester Alfred Balster, age 82, passed away peacefully Wednesday, December 27, 2017 with his family by his side. [More]
Madgealine Edna Denney, 100, of St. Marys, OH died at 12:50 p.m. Wednesday January 10, 2018 at JTDM Hospital in St. Marys surrounded by her family. [More]
Lela Mae Williams, age 95, of Celina, Ohio passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018 at the Mercer County Community Hospital in Coldwater. [More]
Doris M. Hoffman, age 88, of Celina, Ohio, passed away at 3:50 pm on Wednesday, [More]
Cletus Hemmelgarn, 94, Burkettsville, died Dec. 11, 2018, at Briarwood Village, [More]
Stories on January 12th, 2018
A manure application found to have violated the Grand Lake Watershed's distressed watershed rules has been turned over to the state for possible enforcement action.
CELINA - Rapidly changing conditions left weather forecasters grasping at straws while they tried to predict the impact of today's storm.
Snow total predictions ranged from 20 inches earlier in the week to 1-3 inches more recently.
Illness 'widespread' in 46 states, health official says
WAPAKONETA - Flu season is hitting the area and the nation hard this year.
Nationally the flu is at its most serious classification, "widespread," [More]
ST. MARYS - Auglaize County Sheriff's deputies reportedly found drugs in a St. Marys home on Wednesday while executing a domestic-violence arrest warrant for a Coldwater man.
CELINA - Mercer County commissioners on Thursday transferred money from the general fund into accounts for the Soil and Water Conservation District, the Emergency Management Agency and community development department.
NEW BREMEN - A couple spurts of long range offense was all Fort Recovery needed to dominate New Bremen in defensive battle Thursday night at the Cardinal Gymnasium.
ST. HENRY - Minster was ranked the top team in the first Associated Press Division IV state poll.
Wendi Moorman and St. Henry won't argue with the pollsters after Thursday. [More]
CELINA - In the record book, Celina's 42-36 decision over Bath in wrestling will go down as a win.
The win will also go down as a Western Buckeye League victory for the Bulldogs, moving them to 4-0 in league duals.
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
Celina was shut out by Bath 3-0 in the third quarter and scored just eight points in the fourth quarter as the Wildkittens picked up the 45-23 win at the Tub in Bath Township in Thursday night WBL girls' basketball. The Bulldogs drop to 1-13 with the loss.
ST. ANTHONY - Modern newlyweds are putting their own spin onto some wedding traditions, and that trend can appear in surprising ways - even in how th
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