Friday, April 17th, 2009
Obituaries on April 17th, 2009
George R. Hoenie, 86, of Celina, died at 9:27 a.m. April 16, 2009, at Mercer Co [More]
Marcella "Marcie" Katterheinrich, 96, 218 N. Main St., New Knoxville, died at 9:23 p.m. April 15, 2009, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys. [More]
Ruth E. Prescott, 83, of Ridgeville, Ind., died at 10:56 p.m. April 14, 2009, at Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie, Ind. [More]
L. Paul "Big P" Staugler, 55, 202 Washington St., Fort Recovery, died at 1:10 p.m. April 16, 2009, at his residence. Death was due to cancer. [More]
Stories on April 17th, 2009
A petition drive is underway in Ohio to put an amendment on the November election ballot to allow casino gambling at four locations in the state.
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Wright State University-Lake Campus and the Grand Lake Law Enforcement Academy have forged a partnership leading to a new four-year criminal justice degree program at the campus.
Carving by local artist Phil Wood will be unveiled on May 3
FORT RECOVERY - Armed with only a frying pan, "Red-Haired Nance" was one of only a few to survive Gen. Arthur St. Clair's devastating defeat by American Indians at Fort Recovery in 1791. [More]
Testing of the new emergency radio system is going well and officials hope to have the equipment ready to go online by the end of this month.
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ST. MARYS - Not all poems rhyme; and not all poets can be called troubadours as was the poet at the library Thursday night.
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Celina Police Department is now using its successful Radar Hot Spot program to help reduce traffic crashes within the city.
"Statistics show the program does have a positive effect on reducing the number of accidents," Chief Dave Slusser told The Daily Standard.
It started innocently enough with a short conversation in 2003 for Coldwater's Chuck Sanning and St. Henry's Bill Dues.
Sanning was going to help [More]
COLDWATER - The New Bremen baseball team was averaging nine runs per game this season, but that was before the Midwest Athletic Conference opener on Thursday at Veterans Field in Coldwater.
COLDWATER - Parkway batters took advantage of nine walks issued by Coldwater pitching and benefited from a four-hit pitching effort from Emily Crowell to open Midwest Athletic Conference play with an 8-1 win over the Cavaliers at Lady Cav Diamond. [More]
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Celina scored seven times in the top of the seventh to come back and beat Fort Recovery 8-3 on the road Thursday, moving the Bulldogs to 3-6 and Fort Recovery to 3-2 on the season.
MINSTER - New Bremen used extra-base power and solid defense to support a great pitching performance from senior Stacy Timmerman as the Cardinals opened Midwest Athletic Conference play with a 7-1 win over the Minster Wildcats on Thursday afternoon at Four Seasons Park.
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