Flood Warning issued September 17 at 4:22PM EDT until September 17 at 10:45PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...Northwestern Auglaize County in west central Ohio... Mercer County in west central Ohio...
* WHEN...Until 1045 PM EDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Numerous roads remain closed due to flooding. Expect many areas of slow moving or standing water.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 421 PM EDT, local law enforcement reported flooding in the warned area, with numerous roads remaining closed due to high water. Between 2.5 and 3.5 inches of rain have fallen. Flooding impacts will continue, but no additional rainfall is expected. - Some locations that may experience flooding include... Celina, St. Marys, Coldwater, New Bremen, Rockford, Wabash, Mendon, Chickasaw, Montezuma, Tama, Neptune, Carthagena, Bulkhead, State Route 116 at State Route 197, Chattanooga and Kossuth.
Today 83° Today 83° likely 67° 67° slight chance chance Tomorrow 77° Tomorrow 77° 62° 62°
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
By Margie Wuebker
A 12-year-old Mendon boy died at his home over the weekend, the victim of an apparent suicide by hanging, according to Mercer County Sheriff's Office reports.
Raymond Whetsel, 12, 204 W. Walnut St., was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 7:30 a.m. Sunday. [More]
By William Kincaid
FORT RECOVERY - Students at the Fort Recovery Elementary/Middle School are into technology for learning like never before in the school's history, according to various officials.
The school's computer lab was completed at the beginning of the school year with the help of a $182,126 Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) grant. [More]
By Gary R. Rasberry
Solid shooting from Minster golfers Ben Hogenkamp and Adam Sherman allowed the Wildcats to run the table in the Midwest Athletic Conference, capturing the conference boys golf tournament on Saturday at The Fox's Den to go along with a 9-0 regular season record. [More]
Obituaries on September 22nd, 2008
Former Minster, Russia, and St. Marys resident Rev. David Heinl died at 4:40 a. [More]
Owen Weaver, 94, of Celina died early morning Sept. 22, 2008.
Services are pe [More]
Raymond Whetsel, 12, 204 W. Walnut St., Mendon, was found dead Sept. 21, 2008, [More]
Cleo A. Willmann, 84, 3690 state Route 49, Fort Recovery, died at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 19, 2008, at Heritage Manor Nursing Center, Minster. [More]
Local pictures on September 22nd, 2008
Subscriber stories on September 22nd, 2008
ST. MARYS - Finding builders for the little houses recently placed in Heritage Park happened while Mary Maurer was under the hair dryer at a local beauty shop.
MARIA STEIN - For the last time, Rosemary Moeller checks the black residential mailbox labeled "Maria Stein News" outside her breezeway door, only to find it empty.
MARIA STEIN - Highly-anticipated matchups don't always live up to their hype, but Saturday's showdown in prime time between the state's top two ranked teams in Division IV volleyball certainly did.
In just three years, the St. Henry girls golf team has made it to the summit.
The Redskins capped off a spectacular regular season where they went
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
It went down to the wire for two local boys cross country teams as Minster, New Bremen, Coldwater and St. Marys went to the Van Wert County Hospital Cross Country Invitational on Saturday.
ROSSBURG - J.J. Yeley in midgets, Brad Sweet in sprints and Dave Darland in Silver Crown captured the three USAC features on Saturday night of the Eldora Speedway Four Crown Nationals. Joey Saldana won the World of Outlaws portion of the event on Friday night.