Flood Warning issued September 19 at 10:54AM EDT until September 20 at 6:00PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
...The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers... St. Marys River at Rockford. Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/iln. * WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast. * WHERE...St. Marys River at Rockford. * WHEN...From this afternoon to Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...At 13.0 feet, State Route 117 near Route 118 north of Rockford is water-covered and closed. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 10:40 AM EDT Saturday the stage was 12.9 feet. - Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage this afternoon to a crest of 13.2 feet this evening. It will then fall below flood stage early tomorrow afternoon. - Flood stage is 13.0 feet.
Johnnie Watkins, age 67 of Celina, OH (formerly of Beattyville, KY) passed away on Nov. 4, 2015 at Van Wert Hospice Center surround by his loved ones. [More]
Joan Schmiesing age 81 of New Bremen, Ohio, died on Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 4:00 AM at the Mercer County Community Hospital, of Coldwater, Ohio. [More]
Move will cost county $265,000 more a year in health care costs
CELINA - Mercer County Commissioners on Thursday chose to pay higher employee health care costs in 2016 instead of facing Obamacare terms and/or compromising Christian values. [More]
ST. MARYS - After two unsuccessful applications, city officials have received funding from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to help pay for a $319,602 project on the Miami-Erie Canal Towpath.
COLDWATER - Sometimes the simplest gift is the most heartfelt.
"I'm pretty much about simple," Jan Broering of Coldwater recently told a packed house at the Coldwater Public Library where she presented ideas on assembling homemade gifts.
ONTARIO - After two sets of back-and-forth action, everything that could go wrong for St. Marys in the third set did, and everything that could go right for Ottawa-Glandorf did as well.
New Knoxville finished its season in volleyball with a three-set loss to Jackson Center in the Division IV regional semifinals Thursday night at Tippecanoe High School in Tipp City.
