Wind Advisory issued December 28 at 8:36AM EST until December 29 at 6:00PM EST by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected. * WHERE...Portions of east central Indiana and central, southwest, and west central Ohio. * WHEN...From 8 PM this evening to 6 PM EST Monday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Five Mercer County schools have been recognized as the most efficient in the state in providing non-instructional services.
Coldwater, Fort Recovery, Marion Local, Parkway and St. Henry school districts were selected for efficiency in various non-instructional categories by Ohio Education Matters, a non-partisan state public policy research organization that reviewed data from the 2009-2010 academic year. [More]
With efficiency of schools, superintendents do not see merger in Mercer County's future
Ohio Gov. John Kasich believes shared services are a means for improving the state's education system. However, three local superintendents don't think area school districts will consolidate anytime soon.
GRAND LAKE - The mud is flying along West Bank Road.
The Eagle - a traveling unit in the statewide dredging program - this week began pumping muck from Coldwater Creek into a new spoil site along West Bank Road.
Two livestock farms in Mercer County have been issued violation notices after manure from their operations polluted state waters in February during a large snow melt.
Employees at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park have received the state park system's Gazelle Award for their response to last year's toxic blue-green algae blooms on the lake.
MINSTER - Last year, the final event of the Midwest Athletic Conference Track Meet saw a tense race with the Minster, Versailles and New Bremen boys 4x400-meter relay teams finishing neck-and-neck and all breaking the old MAC record.
Bryce Bedwell scored the game-winning run on a wild play in the bottom of the seventh as Parkway knocked another team from a share of the MAC baseball lead in beating Versailles 4-3 on Friday at Don Black Field.
