Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
Levy expected to be placed on ballot next year
By Claire Giesige
NEW BREMEN - School district officials have selected a site for a potential new K-8 building.
They're seeking to connect a new building onto the high school. The estimated local share for the plan is $13.9 million. Now that a site has been selected, officials will discuss square footage, design, function and curriculum to make more detailed plans. Plan must be finalized by November or December, treasurer Deb Meyer said. [More]
By Ed Gebert
CELINA - Officials have identified the motorcyclist whose body was found Tuesday in a wheat field near state Route 29 as John William Lehmkuhle Jr., 59, of Delphos.
A Celina police investigation concluded the probable time of death as the early morning hours of June 11, 10 days before his body was discovered along the north side of the highway between Staeger and Havemann roads. [More]
Obituaries on June 23rd, 2016
Yale E. Goodwin, 27, St. Marys, OH died Monday June 13, 2016 at his residence.
He was born March 5, 1989 in Tampa, FL to Yale A. and Jeanette (Zagar) Goodwin. [More]
William J. Bollinger, 93, Celina, died at 9:03 a.m. June 22, 2016, at Otterbein [More]
Rose Ann (Brock) Kinnison, 88, Celina, died on June 23, 2016, at Lutheran Hospi [More]
Local pictures on June 23rd, 2016
Subscriber stories on June 23rd, 2016
ST. MARYS - Ohio State Highway Patrol officers have a person of interest in the June 8 hit-and-run accident that killed 14-year-old Emily Rempe on county Road 33A.
MENDON - Jim's Harley-Davidson was a stop on a cross-country tour to raise money for veterans on Wednesday.
Adam Sandoval and his fellow riders rod
Frankly, Isaac Wilker's first job out of college is unusual.
Wilker, a St. Sebastian native and the son of Herb and Doris Wilker, drives one of six
Coldwater facility named one of the top 100 community hospitals in the country
COLDWATER - Two national groups have praised Mercer County Community Hospital for the care doctors and staff provide to patients.
Chief executive o
WAPAKONETA - The Auglaize County Department of Health announced that the office may experience temporary telephone, network and internet service disr
COLUMBUS - Every little thing they did was magic. Big time. A sledgehammer of a concert.
Peter Gabriel and Sting launched their joint summer tour -
ST. HENRY - With a love of the game rooted in the lore of late Major League Baseball star Wally Post and the community's heritage of outstanding high school teams, people in St. Henry take their baseball seriously.
Ford fires another complete game for Parkway in 4-3 victory
COLDWATER - Carson Ford on the mound has been a winning recipe for Parkway.
It was the case again on Wednesday.
Ford needed just 101 pitches to
Wednesday's Roundup
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
Grand Lake needed a four-run eighth inning and two-run ninth inning to hold off Richmond for a 15-11 win over the Jazz on Wednesday night at McBride Stadium in Indiana.
WAPAKONETA - For more than two decades, Dale Watson has tramped down the dusty backroads of country music, finding inspiration in outlaw minstrels -