Flood Warning issued September 17 at 10:44AM EDT until September 17 at 4:45PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE...Northwestern Auglaize County in west central Ohio... Mercer County in west central Ohio... Northwestern Shelby County in west central Ohio... * WHEN...Until 445 PM EDT Thursday. * IMPACTS...Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 1044 AM EDT, radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the warned area. Between 2.5 and 3.5 inches of rain have fallen.Additional rainfall amounts up to 0.5 inches are possible in the warned area. - Some locations that may experience flooding include... Celina, St. Marys, Coldwater, New Bremen, Rockford, Wabash, Mendon, Chickasaw, Montezuma, Tama, Neptune, Carthagena, Bulkhead, State Route 116 at State Route 197, Chattanooga and Kossuth.
Flood Watch issued September 17 at 2:22AM EDT until September 17 at 2:00PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible. * WHERE...Portions of central and west central Ohio, including the following counties, in central Ohio, Delaware, Franklin, Licking, Madison and Union. In west central Ohio, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Hardin, Logan, Mercer, Miami and Shelby. * WHEN...Until 2 PM EDT this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - Multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms will move across parts of the area this morning, possibly extending into early afternoon. This may result in bands of heavier rainfall that could lead to flash flooding.
Public employee pensions paid in part by the city of Celina, Mercer County and local schools account for hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual expenditures, according to local officials.
"It's a significant amount of money, but we don't have a choice," Celina auditor Emily Stewart said. [More]
It's not exactly "Field of Dreams", where the phrase "If you build it, they will come" became a part of the lexicon.
But once the FieldTurf infield was placed on what became Montgomery Field in Celina's Eastview Park, the ACME Basebal Congress has come with competition. [More]
WAPAKONETA - Convicted murderer Gordon W. Diggle III was sentenced to 10 more years in prison for related charges in the beating death of a man outside a St. Marys bar last fall.
CELINA - It was another night when the offense could not come up with anything.
Lima pitchers held the Mariners to just four hits on the night as the Locos maintained their lead in the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League's North Division with an 8-1 win on Wednesday at Jim Hoess Field.
The Celina Dolphins swim team got a final tune up before this weekend's Tri-County Swimming Championships with a 425-172 win over the New Bremen Barracudas last week.
