It's summer, and the Bruns family of Celina have taken their boat and crew on the road for another season of racing in the American Power Boat Association (APBA). The trips run from May to October
And although the Quantum Leap - a five-litter hydroplane boat - will race in this weekend's Governor's Cup Regatta on Grand Lake, Mike Bruns and his wife don't think they will make the finals because of the formidable competition. [More]
Twelve hours and half the world away in China, Mark Purdy is the Grand Lake area's man in China.
The Celina High School graduate is finishing up his work in covering the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics as a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. Purdy has sent back stories from events ranging from track and field and basketball to badminton and synchronized swimming. [More]
Keith D. Prowant, 44, of St. Marys, died at 7 a.m. Aug. 21, 2008, at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Dayton. Death was due to cancer. [More]
Couple wants to open a performing arts school in Celina
The Celina Planning Commission reluctantly approved Tim and Leslie Townsend's request to establish an apartment in their building on 311 S. Main Street, a structure that was never intended for residential use, Safety Service Director Jeff Hazel said.
Conditions have improved at two run-down properties on the north side of Grand Lake following a formal warning by local health officials to landowners in June.
The local health department is changing its immunization hours at the Celina office and may implement ways to update local physicians on their patients' vaccine records.
Local health sanitarians this week were given the power to close swimming pools or spas that are deemed a health nuisance or are not properly licensed.
Mercer County residents can drop off household chemicals, pesticides, oil-based paint, batteries, as well as steel and metal items, such as refrigerators, washers, lawn mowers and bicycles for recycling on Saturday at the Mercer County Fair grounds.
The Mercer County Elks was the center of high school golf in the area on Thursday as two Midwest Athletic Conference boys golf matches and one conference girls match dotted the course.
