Special Weather Statement issued December 29 at 10:25AM EST by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
Light snow showers will continue through the day today. Visibility will be reduced at times with this snow shower activity. In addition, with falling temperatures, isolated slick spots will be possible.
Wind Advisory issued December 29 at 2:00AM EST until December 29 at 6:00PM EST by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. * WHERE...Portions of east central and southeast Indiana, northeast and northern Kentucky, and central, south central, southwest, and west central Ohio. * WHEN...Until 6 PM EST this evening. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
The Lake Improvement Association (LIA) last week mailed petitions containing almost 2,000 signatures to candidates for Ohio governor, Ken Blackwell and Ted Strickland, about the plight of Grand Lake.
"Hopefully, we will make our voices heard," said membership chairwoman Gayle Sachs, upon reporting during Saturday's LIA meeting that the petitions had been mailed. [More]
It was appropriate that two Mercer County teams would battle it out for the championship of the Mercer Health Volleyball Invitational in Celina on Saturday.
In the end, Marion Local captured the championship by beating the host Bulldogs 25-19 and 25-15, winning the tournament over the Bulldogs for a second straight year. [More]
Gail M. Rutschilling, 49, 309 E. College St., Coldwater, died Sept. 1, 2006, at Mercer County Community Hospital, Coldwater. Death was due to natural causes. [More]
Pearl E. Schmidt, 84, of Rockford, died at 8:58 p.m. Sept. 2, 2006, at The Laurels of Shane Hill, Rockford, where she had been a patient since Aug. 29. [More]
Paul Billerman, an outspoken critic of plans to build a new county jail, had an opportunity to see the inside of the old one after being arrested for telecommunications harassment Sunday afternoon.
A Celina man died Friday afternoon at his home, the victim of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.
Mercer County Sheriff's deputies responded to 3505 state Route 705 around 4 p.m. after relatives found the body of John W. Tonkin, 59, lying on the seat of his pickup truck.
A meeting on a USDA program that pays landowners to plant habitat along the edges of farm fields for bobwhite quail and other wildlife will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 13 at the Mercer County Central Services Building.
A number of area teams traveled to Greenville on Saturday to take part in the Treaty City Invitational, which brought a number of top cross country squads from both the northwest and southwest districts to compete.
