Wednesday, August 9th, 2023
Civil War letters inspire play
By William Kincaid
ST. MARYS - The riveting tale of a St. Marys Union Army soldier who survived a deplorable prisoner of war camp only to die shortly after on the Sultana steamboat disaster will be brought to the stage by a cast of local actors.
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By Gary R. Rasberry
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
Coldwater was paced by two sub-80 scores and four rounds of 91 or less to repeat as Mercer County boys golf champions, winning the county invitational at Celina Lynx on Tuesday.
The Cavaliers finished the tournament with a 328, 24 strokes ahead of runner-up Marion Local. St. Henry (363) edged Fort Recovery (365) for third place with host Celina (368) and Parkway (383) rounding out the varsity leaderboard. [More]
Obituaries on August 9th, 2023
Elaine L. Evans, 74, of St. Marys, OH died 8:07 a.m. Sunday August 6, 2023 at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, OH. [More]
Our beautiful and elegant Mother, Carolyn Hemmelgarn (81) of Fort Recovery, peacefully passed away on August 7, 2023. [More]
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Special election a November preview
Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state's constitution, s
CELINA - Mercer County commissioners on Tuesday heard concerns from U.S. Department of Agriculture officials about whether the Farm Service Agency office being built in the county's new ag center will meet federal requirements.
ST. MARYS - St. Marys SummerFest will kick off its 40th year Thursday through Sunday at Skip Baughman Stadium.
This year's festival has upped the a
COLDWATER - Coldwater school board members on Tuesday updated the monetary value of items in which the district central office tracks inventory.
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ROCKFORD - Village councilors on Tuesday moved to sell a handful of new lots near the north water tower.
Councilors approved an ordinance authorizi
ROCKFORD - Parkway school board members on Tuesday evening heard the high school main entrance sign project should be finished by the first day of school.
ST. MARYS - The origin of the city's industrial sector is directly tied to the emergence of the Miami-Erie Canal, the area's first mode of mass transportation beginning around the mid-19th century.
St. Marys doesn't need an apostrophe
ST. MARYS - Once and for all, is it St. Marys, St. Mary's, Saint Marys or Saint Mary's? The answer is: it's complicated.
The sunny, bright city in Auglaize County has quite a few spellings, but they're all synonymous.
ST. MARYS - Before Charles Murray founded St. Marys in 1823, James Girty established Girty's Town in 1782.
Nestled at the junction of the three branches of the St. Marys River and just south of Fort St. Marys, Girty opened a trading post for which the St. Marys area was known for nearly 40 years.