Winter Weather Advisory issued February 8 at 3:44AM EST until February 9 at 12:00AM EST by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Freezing rain expected. Total ice accumulations one to two tenths of an inch. * WHERE...Auglaize, Hardin, Logan, Mercer, and Shelby Counties. * WHEN...From 11 AM this morning to midnight EST tonight. * IMPACTS...Roads, and especially bridges and overpasses, will likely become slick and hazardous. Plan on slippery road conditions.
Five Mercer County schools have been recognized as the most efficient in the state in providing non-instructional services.
Coldwater, Fort Recovery, Marion Local, Parkway and St. Henry school districts were selected for efficiency in various non-instructional categories by Ohio Education Matters, a non-partisan state public policy research organization that reviewed data from the 2009-2010 academic year. [More]
With efficiency of schools, superintendents do not see merger in Mercer County's future
Ohio Gov. John Kasich believes shared services are a means for improving the state's education system. However, three local superintendents don't think area school districts will consolidate anytime soon.
GRAND LAKE - The mud is flying along West Bank Road.
The Eagle - a traveling unit in the statewide dredging program - this week began pumping muck from Coldwater Creek into a new spoil site along West Bank Road.
Two livestock farms in Mercer County have been issued violation notices after manure from their operations polluted state waters in February during a large snow melt.
Employees at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park have received the state park system's Gazelle Award for their response to last year's toxic blue-green algae blooms on the lake.
MINSTER - Last year, the final event of the Midwest Athletic Conference Track Meet saw a tense race with the Minster, Versailles and New Bremen boys 4x400-meter relay teams finishing neck-and-neck and all breaking the old MAC record.
Bryce Bedwell scored the game-winning run on a wild play in the bottom of the seventh as Parkway knocked another team from a share of the MAC baseball lead in beating Versailles 4-3 on Friday at Don Black Field.
