Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Obituaries on June 18th, 2009
Robert J. "Bob" Boerger, 85, Friemering Road, Fort Loramie, died June 16, 2009, at home. [More]
Linus J. Brackman, 76 of Englewood, died June 16, 2009, at the Maria Joseph Living Care Center, Trotwood. [More]
Donald Freeman, 73 of Englewood, died June 15, 2009, at home.
He was born on [More]
Joan Menchhofer McVay, 73, of Aurora, died June 14, 2009, at home.
She was born Feb. 4, 1936, in Celina to Carl and Margaret Menchhofer. [More]
Melvin John Miller, 66, of Coldwater, died today, June 18, 2009 at his home. [More]
Stories on June 18th, 2009
Cleanup efforts continued Wednesday in an effort to keep nearly 800 gallons of liquid fertilizer from entering Beaver Creek following an earlier traffic accident.
A 19-year-old Fort Recovery man remains in critical condition at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton after falling from the bed of a pickup truck early Sunday morning.
Users of Grand Lake now have a Web site to check on algae toxin levels in the lake.
The page was created by the Ohio EPA and is available at www.ep [More]
Brett Riley, the 42-year-old Celina man charged in connection with the drug-related death of his wife, has retained a father-son team of attorneys.
YORKSHIRE - Marcia Eilerman couldn't be more proud of her two sons, Mitchell, 16, and Shawn, 17, both students at Marion Local High School.
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ST. MARYS - In 2008 troopers with the local Ohio Highway Patrol Post stopped 2,000 vehicles and investigated 680 crashes in Auglaize and Mercer counties, according to the Wapakoneta Post commander.
The Mercer County Commissioners plan to apply for $600,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding for Phase I of the proposed Marion Township sanitary sewer improvement project.
Two Mercer County women claimed titles in the preliminary round of Miss Ohio Pageant competition on Wednesday at the Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield
Grand Lake is a canary in a coal mine - the first of many water problems on the horizon for Ohio, says Bill Ringo, Lake Improvement Association (LIA) president and political chair of the Friends for the Preservation of Ohio State Parks.
Images of Hollywood and actors commonly show fame and fortune.
But that's not the case for most of the 120,000 performers in U.S. acting unions. Only around 4,000 of those entertainers work regularly, according to Celina writer Scott Voisin. [More]
What started out to be a tryout turned out to be the opportunity that Todd Boeckman has been looking for.
The St. Henry native and former Ohio Stat [More]
COLDWATER - Usually in a doubleheader, especially when pitching is scarce, one game is usually a pitcher's duel while the other has the makings of an offensive onslaught.
After a thrilling 30-lap main event just four weeks ago, the O'Reilly All-Star Circuit of Champion Sprint Cars returns to Eldora Speedway for the second and final time in 2009 on Saturday night.
A quartet of pitchers helped Grand Lake win its fourth straight game as the Mariners blanked the Cincinnati Steam 5-0 on Wednesday night at Jim Hoess Field.
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
Greg Wolters fired a three-hitter as Marion Local improved to 8-3 on the season with an 11-1 win in five innings over Versailles.
Local pictures on June 18th, 2009