Both sides look to ratify deal during Wednesday meeting
By Margie Wuebker
Minster Local Schools board of education and the Minster Teachers Association reached a tentative agreement on a new contract Thursday night during a lengthy negotiating session at the high school.
Both sides sat down at 4:30 p.m. to resume talks on the contract, which expired June 30. The tentative agreement came hours later with team members leaving around 10 p.m. [More]
FORT RECOVERY - Camp fires billowed from rings, beagles barked and beer was drunk on the eve of the annual three-day Traders Day Festival at the Ohio Progressive Sportsman Club.
"As you can see, we got a pretty good turnout already," club Secretary Don Wehrkamp said on Thursday evening. [More]
COLDWATER - The ongoing drama that is the local cross country season continued Thursday afternoon as 26 teams gathered at Memorial Park and Cavalier Stadium for the 2008 Gene Weber Memorial Lions Invitational.
The day was highlighted by a much-anticipated boys race. Going in, as many as nine teams had a shot at the team title and the race did not disappoint as Minster won the title with 86 points. [More]
St. Marys native David J. McEvoy, 53, of Lakeview, died at 6:35 p.m. Oct. 1, 2008, at Mary Rutan Hospital, Bellefontaine. Death was due to cancer. [More]
60-something lawyer from St. Marys keeps winning national ski titles
ST. MARYS - The guy is 60-something and still winning national water ski competitions - for trick skiing, no less. And he's already qualified for next year's slalom competition in Florida.
Local and state candidates discussed challenges facing agriculture in Mercer County during the monthly agriculture breakfast meeting held in Celina on Thursday.
A Parkway Local School fifth-grader found with a hit list naming other students was reported to the Mercer County Sheriff's office Wednesday afternoon, as is required by school policy.
Four Minster residents were injured in a four-car accident at the intersection of state Route 364 and Minster-Fort Recovery Road at 3:28 p.m. Sept. 29, according to a report from the Wapakoneta post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
ST. HENRY - The Rev. Tom Hemm is bringing his experience as a missionary priest in South America to his new role as senior pastor of the St. Henry Catholic cluster.
FORT RECOVERY - The Marion Local Flyers kept themselves on track for a chance to defend their Midwest Athletic Conference volleyball title with a four-game win over the Fort Recovery Indians on Thursday night at Fort Site Fieldhouse.
The Celina girls tennis team will send its two doubles teams back to district for the second straight year after both teams qualified for Saturday's Division I sectional semifinals at the King Horn Center on the campus of Ohio Northern University.
The Minster boys golf team will head to state next week at Foxfire Golf Club after placing second at the Division III District Tournament at Stone Ridge in Bowling Green on Thursday.
