Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Obituaries on September 5th, 2006
Dorothy Ann Clark, 68, of Rockford, died at 6:43 a.m. Sept. 3, 2006, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys. [More]
Mary Darnell-Schneider, 73, 1245 S. Knoxville Ave., St. Marys, died at 8:10 p.m [More]
Bernard J. Dietz, 79, 8 S. Eastmoor Drive, New Bremen, died Sept. 2, 2006, at St. Marys Living Center, St. Marys. [More]
Marjorie A. "Marge" Klingshirn, 70, 604 Woodview Drive, Coldwater, died at 11:2 [More]
Paul May Jr., 56, 300 Bruns Ave., Celina, died at 2:30 a.m. Sept. 2, 2006, at Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton. Death was due to a massive stroke. [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]
Helen I. Stang, 96, formerly of Celina, died at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 2, 2006, at Otterbein St. Marys Retirement Community. [More]
Ralph U. Timmerman, 74, 417 S. Second St., Coldwater, died Sept. 3, 2006, at his residence. [More]
John Tonkin, 59, 3505 state route 703, Celina, died Sept. 1, 2006, at his resid [More]
Thomas H. Vagedes, 76, 807 W. Butler St., Coldwater, died Sept. 1, 2006, at his residence. [More]
Celina native Kathleen Schlarman Wangler, 48, of Lima, died the early morning o [More]
Stories on September 5th, 2006
Celina city officials plan to go through a legal process to validate their plans to build a lakefront walkway along West Bank Road.
City council me
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.
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. [More]
College classes start today at Wright State University-Lake Campus, Celina, with a new dean and five new professors.
New Dean Mindy McNutt reports that as the Lake Campus grows and changes, the staff is growing and changing, too.
A trial date has been set in the case of a Coldwater woman who allegedly bit off nearly one-third of a man's tongue.
The two-day jury trial for Emi
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.
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. [More]
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
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.
Local pictures on September 5th, 2006