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Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Edition of The Daily Standard

Online Local News Stories

Mercer County will switch back to paper ballots

At this week's Columbus-based Conference of the Ohio Association of Election Officials, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner recommended Ohio counties ditch their touch-screen voting machines by the November general election in fa . . .

Woman accused of drug smuggling sent to prison

A 19-year-old Arizona woman, who reportedly came to the Midwest to smuggle drugs as part of an organized network, wept Tuesday morning as Mercer County Common Pleas Court Judge Jeffrey Ingraham sentenced her to one year in prison . . .

Print Edition Only News Stories

• Tax break sought on property

• Celina company to add products, jobs

• Celina man facing multiple sex charges

• Local man indicted

• New water meter reading system possible

• New Bremen natural area discussed

• Routine business at recent Mercer MR/DD meeting

• Cavaliers, Redskins renew Backyard Battle

• Fort Recovery vs. Marion

• Versailles vs. New Bremen

• Parkway vs. St. John's

• O-G vs. St. Marys

• Celina vs. Kenton

• Minster vs. New Knoxville

Local Obituaries

Russell King

Russell H. King, 85, died at 12:40 a.m. Dec. 6, 2007, at Otterbein-St. Marys Retirement Community. He was born Feb. 20, 1922, in Grabill, Ind., to George and Ida Zerbe King. On June 18, 1946, he married Eileen Stevenson, who di . . .

Rev. Clement Kuhns

The Rev. Clement Kuhns, 86, died at 6 a.m. Jan. 16, 2008, in the infirmary at St. Charles Center in Carthagena. He was born Jan. 12, 1922, in Canton, to William and Laura Valot Kuhns. Survivors are a brother, Harold "Barney, . . .

Alberta Miller

Alberta "Bertie" Mary Miller, 85, of Rockford, died Jan. 16, 2008, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind. She was born May 13, 1922, to Henry F. and Ida Yewey Wurster. On July 29, 1941, she married David L. Miller, who died N . . .

Estrid Stevenson

Estrid M. Lindqvist Stevenson, 77, 1130 Circle Drive, St. Marys, died at 1:05 p.m. Dec. 7, 2007, at Otterbein-St. Marys Retirement Community. She was born July 8, 1930, in Nederkalix, Sweden. On Feb. 25, 1968, she married Richa . . .

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