Thursday, April 5th, 2007
By Margie Wuebker
A St. Henry man has been sentenced to prison in connection with a drug trafficking case in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.
Travis J. Lange, 23, 332 Kenneth St., received consecutive sentences in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction - 16 months for a third-degree charge involving cocaine and 10 months for an amended fifth-degree felony offense. [More]
Employees may be sent home but still receive pay
By Shelley Grieshop
The Mercer County Health Commissioner was given the power this week to declare inclement weather and give employees a paid day off.
Board members of the Mercer County-Celina City Board of Health meeting Wednesday unanimously implemented a policy for inclement weather that allows Health Commissioner Dr. Philip Masser to close the office and/or send staff members home when weather conditions become hazardous. [More]
By Gary R. Rasberry
There are just some players who look like they naturally belong on a basketball court.
Justine Raterman is one of those players.
She has a storied bloodline as her older sisters were established players who took their game to the collegiate level. [More]
Obituaries on April 5th, 2007
Mildred J. Said, 90, 304 Brentwood Ave., Piqua, died at 10:25 p.m. April 3, 2007, at Piqua Manor Nursing Home. [More]
Clara D. Schieltz, 73, 406 W. Elizabeth St., Coldwater, died at 9:05 p.m. April 3, 2007, at Briarwood Manor Nursing Home, Coldwater. [More]
Carl E. Wendel, 74, of Celina, died on April 5, 2007, at St. Rita's Medical Cen [More]
Local pictures on April 5th, 2007
Subscriber stories on April 5th, 2007
To thwart the spread of a fish killing virus, the state will not collect walleye eggs from the Maumee River this year for stocking in Ohio waterways, including Grand Lake.
Mercer County sales tax collections through the first quarter are up slightly over 2006, and the March revenue reflects a strong holiday shopping season last year.
The Ohio Department of Health has rejected the local health department's plea to make an exception for nearly four dozen people who were denied septic system permits under the state's old rules.
Local health officials will decide case by case which residents will be granted variances allowing new septic systems to be built closer to seasonal water tables than rules allow.
Local health officials have decided to open the county's pocketbook to fix a resident's sewage system that has become a county health hazard.
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COLDWATER - Elementary Principal Molly Hay recently was selected as one of two finalists in the entire state for the 2007 Ohio Distinguished Principal Award.
A Celina woman now faces three counts of passing bad checks totaling more than $3,000 at Celina area businesses.
Lee Ann Saintignon, 28, 2551 Mud Pike, was indicted Dec. 15 after she allegedly wrote a check on or about Sept. 30 for $1,490.95 to Francis Furniture knowing it would be dishonored.
Jacki Stonebraker returned to her alma mater of Versailles after a successful collegiate basketball career to see if she could coach the game she played.