Friday, October 22nd, 2010
Obituaries on October 22nd, 2010
Julia Eggleston, 86, formerly of Toledo, died at 8:20 p.m. Oct. 20, 2010, at Otterbein St. Marys Retirement Community. [More]
Former Coldwater resident Ross Delton Clingman, 88, Gahanna, died Oct. 19, 2010, at Mount Carmel East Hospital in Columbus. [More]
Martha Lou Dammeyer, 75, St. Marys, died at 7 p.m. Oct. 20, 2010, at St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima. [More]
Dwight "Sleep" R. Koontz, 71, Celina, died Oct. 21, 2010, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind. [More]
Stories on October 22nd, 2010
WSU
CELINA - A Wright State University-Lake Campus staff member will receive more than $75,000 from the local college after agreeing to resign, according to terms of a recently-settled sex discrimination lawsuit. [More]
MINSTER - Auglaize County Commissioners voted Thursday night to proceed with a $1.2 million cleanup project of the Miami and Erie Canal in Minster.
The decision came after the 40 or so people in attendance at Minster Middle School voiced positive comments.
Election 2010: Ohio House District 78
A seasoned politician and a relative newcomer on the political scene will square off Nov. 2 in the race for an Ohio House seat in District 78, which includes Shelby, Champaign and most of Auglaize counties.
Election 2010: U.S. House 4th District
U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, is being challenged by two political newcomers.
Jordan, Donald Kissick, L-Lima, and Doug Litt, D-Mansfield,
James "Jamie" Stachler stood at a table holding his disc jockey equipment and looked across rows of attendees at Tuesday's Self-Advocacy Conference sponsored by the Mercer County Board of Developmental Disabilities. [More]
Grand Lake Watershed
MARIA STEIN - Mercer County commissioners are seeking an engineering study that may result in a new sanitary sewer project in the Grand Lake watershed.
CELINA - The city's planning commission unanimously denied a Celina's couple request for a conditional use variance to operate a weight loss operation out of their home at 908 Clover Lane.
Restoration and renovation are the keys to economic stabilization and growth.
That was the message stressed by speaker/author Storm Cunningham, who
COLDWATER - A nun and former professor of biology believes humanity must have an awakening reverence for all forms of life and seek a more sustainable way of living.
All-Midwest Athletic Conference Volleyball
Minster senior Erica Fullenkamp snagged the top honor in the Midwest Atheltic Conference as the league volleyball coaches selected their all-conference teams.
Last Curtain Call
MINSTER - As Steve Blackburn reflects, he releases a comfortable chuckle geared toward a few of the memories from the 1975 football season - his second in command of the Minster Wildcats.
Local pictures on October 22nd, 2010