Mother Nature reached into her bag of weather tricks Wednesday night sending light freezing rain to compound problems associated with blowing and drifting snow.
The topic of winter and how things used to be creeps into many conversations these days as senior citizens talk of times when snowplows and school cancellations were few and far between.
Franklin Twp.
Mercer County Board of Elections members Wednesday certified a referendum petition and rejected a notice of protest - both related to a zoning ruling made in Franklin Township last year.
St. Henry
St. Henry Local Schools officials may opt to cut in-town bus routes in the future to help reduce costs.
Board of education members and Superintende
The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) has issued final Permits to Operate (PTO) for two local farms.
Receiving renewals were Albers Farm, 5967 Depweg Road, Celina, owned by Roger Albers, and Unrast Poultry, 8758 state Route 119, Maria Stein, owned by Perry and Robert Unrast.
ST. MARYS - They don't do it for the money but they certainly wouldn't do it for free, according to a Mid American Conference official who took on some Big 10 Conference assignments this year and a lot of local contests.
Marion Township
Tom's Construction was awarded a $2 million contract for the Marion Township Sanitary Sewer project.
Mercer County commissioners made the announcem
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
Over the first 111 meetings of the Backyard Battle, Coldwater and St. Henry have gone toe-to-toe regardless of the records.
The Elida Fieldhouse should be rocking on Friday night when the Celina boy's basketball team makes the road trip for a Western Buckeye League contest
One More Curtain Call
The blurb in The Daily Standard on the second Friday of December in 1987 was nothing more than a handful of sentances summarizing Marion Local's 55-37 victory at New Knoxville in girls' basketball.
Tonight
Girls Basketball
Marion Local (14-3, 7-0 MAC) at Fort Recovery (13-3, 6-1 MAC)
The Flyers can wrap up their first Midwest Athletic Conference title since the 2004-05 season tonight with a win over the Indians, who are a game back of Marion Local.
