Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
By Shelley Grieshop
CELINA - Pint-sized students on Tuesday night invaded the local university to discover science, technology, engineering and math ... and got downright messy.
More than 100 area preschool through third-grade students - with parents in tow - created funky items such as monkey fart soap during the first-ever "Girls Just Wanna Have STEM and Boys Build it Bigger" event at Wright State University-Lake Campus. [More]
By Jared Mauch
MINSTER - Two power companies have offered to pay commercial customers who are willing to cut power usage during emergency situations.
Village council heard the first reading of a resolution allowing commercial and industrial power users to join a demand response program from American Municipal Power and CPower. [More]
By Gary R. Rasberry
FORT RECOVERY - The way Jackson Hobbs and Wyatt Felver were pitching Tuesday, just one little hiccup could have decided the winner of the Parkway-Fort Recovery baseball game.
For Parkway, that hiccup came in the bottom of the fifth as the Indians, the top-ranked team in Division IV, scored all four of their runs. That allowed Hobbs to finish a 4-0 one-hit gem in Midwest Athletic Conference play at the Fort. [More]
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FORT RECOVERY - Middle school principal Matt Triplett is confident a Senate committee he's on will improve state testing.
At Tuesday night's board
CELINA - Water rates will increase in June for 513 rural customers to help pay for future upgrades and operating/maintenance costs fielded by the county.
LIMA - The Third District Court of Appeals this week rejected an Ohio Department of Natural Resources challenge to a judge's order to make deposits to pay for damage from flooding due to the new West Bank spillway.
CELINA - Public and private sector job opportunities abound locally as some employers struggle to find suitable candidates, local leaders said.
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CELINA - A Celina company was hired to complete an estimated $275,000 wastewater pump station replacement project near the 4-H campground north of Grand Lake.
ROCKFORD - Ron Rutledge on Tuesday night took a seat on village council.
Rutledge, 45, who works at Crown Equipment Corp., was sworn in at Tuesday'
CELINA - At times, the wheels on the bus go round and round for the Celina softball team - the pitching is on, the bats are producing and the fielding is rock solid.
Tuesday's Local Roundup
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry and Colin Foster
Isaiah Eichler scored the only run of the game as Celina improved to 4-0 in the Western Buckeye Lea
Local women open bridal exchange store in Celina
CELINA - Talonda Wells and Kellie Ashmore, owners of Kakes & Dreams Bridal Exchange invite women to come in and say yes to the dress.
The women ope