Flood Warning issued September 19 at 9:56PM EDT until September 20 at 6:00PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers... St. Marys River at Rockford. * WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast. * WHERE...St. Marys River at Rockford. * WHEN...Until Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...At 13.0 feet, State Route 117 near Route 118 north of Rockford is water-covered and closed. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 9:40 PM EDT Saturday the stage was 13.1 feet. - Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 13.2 feet just after midnight tonight. It will then fall below flood stage early tomorrow afternoon. - Flood stage is 13.0 feet.
Good bass fishing apparently has returned to Grand Lake and so has a major national bass fishing tournament, members of the private Lake Development Corporation (LDC) learned at their meeting Monday.
Brian Miller, assistant manager of Grand Lake St. Marys State Park, said the two-day Wal-Mart BFL Tournament will return to the lake in 2008, after it was dropped this year. [More]
An experiment using barley straw in a dead-end channel of Grand Lake to curtail blue-green algae growth is underway, members of the nonprofit Lake Improvement Association (LIA) learned at their meeting Saturday.
COLDWATER - Membership in the Coldwater Fire Department jumped from 22 to 25 after village councilors on Monday approved an amendment to the department's by-laws that would increase membership.
MINSTER - Thad Colbeck, co-president of the Minster Education Association and social studies teacher at Minster High School, has resigned to take a job with an association that represents all teachers in Ohio.
