Flood Advisory issued September 16 at 2:47AM EDT until September 16 at 6:30AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE...Mercer County in west central Ohio... * WHEN...Until 630 AM EDT. * IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 247 AM EDT, radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 1.5 inches are possible in the warned area. - Some locations that may experience flooding include... Celina, Coldwater, St. Henry, Fort Recovery, Rockford, Wabash, Mendon, Chickasaw, Montezuma, Tama, Carthagena, Neptune, Chattanooga and Maria Stein.
MONTEZUMA - The shrill warning of a smoke detector has been credited with giving an area family time to escape their burning duplex Tuesday morning.
Firefighters from Montezuma and Coldwater responded to the home of Travis and Kristy Williams, 6657 Brookside Drive, in response to a 911 call placed at 10:33 a.m. [More]
CELINA - It didn't take long Tuesday to open sealed bids to buy the former Mercer County Sheriff's Office building.
There weren't any.
Tuesday was the deadline for interested parties to cast bids for the county-owned, two-story building on Livingston Street in Celina. No one submitted bids or arrived for the 11 a.m. bid-opening process. [More]
CELINA - Delores Schmitz and her husband, the late Cletus Schmitz, were honored with the Mercer County Outstanding Senior Citizens of the Year award during Senior Citizen Day activities on Tuesday.
"Each year we honor our seniors who have contributed to the community through volunteering in their retirement years. It's always a difficult choice as there are so many," said Karen Howick, director of the Mercer County Council on Aging, as she presented the award at Romer's at Westlake in Celina. [More]
CELINA - The Mercer County Board of Elections office received 22 applications for the position of director as of Tuesday afternoon, according to deputy director Laura Bruns.
Farmers in the Grand Lake/Wabash River Watershed in Mercer, Auglaize and Darke counties are invited on a dairy and conservation bus tour to Wisconsin and Indiana Aug. 30-Sept. 1.
CELINA - School board members will need to begin talking about whether to ask voters to renew or replace an operating levy that expires at the end of 2011, Celina City Schools Treasurer Mike Marbaugh said this week.
Two local youths - a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl - are facing arson charges in connection with a May 11 restroom fire at the Mercelina ball park.
ST. HENRY - Stylists at a new salon in St. Henry are hoping to make their customers' the envy of their friends by providing flattering hairdos and relaxing therapies.
The Bath softball team won the Western Buckeye League for the 16th time in school history and the Wildkittens were the top winners in the all-league voting as well.
