Flood Warning issued September 18 at 12:21AM EDT until September 18 at 8:00AM 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 800 AM EDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Numerous roads remain closed due to flooding. Expect many areas of slow moving or standing water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 1218 AM EDT, radar indicated scattered thunderstorms developing which contain moderate to heavy rainfall. Flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the warned area. Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are possible in the warned area over the next hour or two. - 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.
CELINA - A disaster recovery center has been opened in St. Marys to assist Grand Lake region residents who suffered property damage during the March 14 tornadoes.
Situated in the Fairbanks Center at 272 Jack Oak Point Road, St. Marys, the disaster recovery center is staffed by Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Small Business Administration specialists. [More]
COLDWATER - Coldwater schools treasurer Jenn McCoy is projecting deficit spending of $336,022 in fiscal year 2024, which ends June 30.
However, McCoy anticipates spending will return to the black in fiscal year 2025 with a net balance of $232,909 before dwindling to $27,234 in fiscal year 2028, according to her five-year forecast presented at Tuesday night's regular school board meeting. [More]
WAPAKONETA - Western Buckeye League and Midwest Athletic Conference coaches came together to host the area's first football scouting combine for 109 players on Monday.
Seventeen of the WBL and MAC schools were represented, with coaches including St. Marys' Bo Frye and Coldwater's Chip Otten running the players through drills for scouts from an estimated 30 colleges. [More]
Claris E. Aller, 89, of Lawton, Oklahoma and formerly of Celina, Ohio passed away peacefully Monday, May 13, 2024 in a Wichita Falls, Texas hospital. [More]
CELINA - Winans Coffee and Chocolate plans to open its newest franchise location in downtown Celina in August, offering customers its exquisite line of handcrafted chocolates, freshly roasted coffees, smoothies and seasonal gifts.
CELINA - A New Paris man was arraigned on 10 charges in Mercer County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday, including vehicular homicide and OVI, stemming from a Dec. 23 accident involving a horse-drawn buggy that killed a 1-year-old girl and injured others.
WAPAKONETA - Early detection, medication and counseling are the best ways to treat mental illness, a public health crisis affecting more than a million Ohioans, Auglaize County Board of Health members learned on Tuesday.
MARIA STEIN - Marion Local Schools Treasurer Amy Reineke presented a favorable updated five-year financial forecast at this week's school board meeting.
WAPAKONETA - Auglaize County commissioners on Tuesday awarded a $446,000 contract to H&S Asphalt LLC of Bellefontaine for the 2024 Meadowbrook Subdivision road project.
Parkway softball got into the third inning of its Division III district semifinal with Van Buren at Bath High School before heavy rain forced the game to be suspended.
Fort Recovery pitcher Alex Dues signed a national letter of intent on Monday to play at Marietta College.
Dues, who is thinking of majoring in business, said he first heard from Marietta at the end of last summer and got to visit a couple of times over the course of the year.
