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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
By Margie Wuebker
A 19-year-old Arizona woman faces one felony count of drug trafficking after she allegedly came to Celina on Friday afternoon to pick up a package containing approximately 25 pounds of marijuana.
Mariela K. Escobar, of San Luis, appeared Monday afternoon for an arraignment hearing in Celina Municipal Court. Judge James Scheer increased bond to $1 million as requested by the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office. [More]
By Margie Wuebker
An area mother investigating why her son had not left for work found him dead in bed Monday morning.
Nathaniel Heitbrink, 23, 224 Jackson St., Celina, was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 8:30 a.m. His body was taken to Mercer County Community Hospital in Coldwater and later transferred to the Montgomery County Coroner's Office in Dayton. [More]
Obituaries on November 13th, 2007
Kathryn M. "Kate" Harris, 78, of 02916 Greenville Road, St. Marys, and Fraser, [More]
Deborah Heil, 58, 503 W. German St., New Knoxville, died Nov. 12, 2007, at St. [More]
Elmer E. Hoelscher, 89, 11008 Kettlersville Road, New Knoxville, died at 12:10 p.m. Nov. 12, 2007, at Wapakoneta Manor Nursing Home. [More]
Local pictures on November 13th, 2007
Subscriber stories on November 13th, 2007
The city of Celina has negotiated a lower rate for natural gas for customers who participate in the city aggregation program.
The new price of $9.8
COLDWATER - Councilors gave first reading to the village's 2008 pay ordinance that would give all salaried employees a $1,500 raise, while raising the wage of all hourly employees 3 percent.
NEW BREMEN - The Auglaize County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (MR/DD) submitted their Christmas wish: a budget request for $4.7 million for the upcoming year.
ST. MARYS - Council members unanimously passed third reading to close the city's power plant.
"This has been very well discussed over the past six months," said council President Dan Hoelscher as he called for the final vote at Monday night's city council meeting.
ST. HENRY - Village council members on Monday went over the first reading of temporary appropriations for expenditures for the first quarter of fiscal year 2008.
It was Ottawa-Glandorf and Lima Shawnee battling it out in week 10 for the Western Buckeye League football championship and it was the Titans and Indians battling it out for the most all-WBL awards as well.