Flood Advisory issued September 5 at 7:14AM EDT until September 5 at 10:15AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE...Western Auglaize County in west central Ohio... Mercer County in west central Ohio... North Central Shelby County in west central Ohio... * WHEN...Until 1015 AM EDT. * IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 714 AM EDT, radar and automated rain gauges indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 1.5 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are possible. - Some locations that may experience flooding include... Celina, St. Marys, Coldwater, New Bremen, Minster, St. Henry, Rockford, New Knoxville, Wabash, Mendon, Chickasaw, Montezuma, Tama, Neptune, Carthagena, Bulkhead, Maria Stein, State Route 116 at State Route 197 and Chattanooga.
Mercer County commissioners this morning unanimously shot down a controversial zoning amendment request for a property in East Jefferson Township, north of Grand Lake.
The request was submitted by Roy Jr. and Carol Asbury of Sidney, who sought to change the zoning of their property at the end of Pershing Street from special uses to residential. [More]
St. Henry resident Tamara S. Evers looked straight ahead as she entered Mercer County Common Pleas Court Wednesday morning, apparently paying no attention to the large group of people gathered around the parents of an infant who allegedly sustained fatal injuries while under her care. [More]
Wilfred C. "Bill" Liette, 92, 1215 Kimberly Drive, St. Marys, died at 10:20 p.m. Jan. 4, 2010, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys. [More]
Work on the 2010 budget for the City of Celina cannot move forward until city council members approve a new way of paying its bills and employee salaries.
ST. MARYS - One local library director is "walking gingerly" through the pros and cons of joining Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO), a partnership of Ohio libraries and library organizations working to build a collection of information resources and services. Her concern centers on filters.
The Epleys - a father and son from Sidney - appeared in Mercer County Common Pleas Court Wednesday afternoon in connection with a December burglary at the Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall in Coldwater.
When I approached former Coldwater girls basketball coach Charlie Maier about his thoughts for this week's story, I realized requesting a Hall of Fame coach to single out one game from a 20-plus year career was sort of like asking John Wayne to pinpoint his favorite gunfight.
