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Tuesday, January 27th, 2015 Edition of The Daily Standard

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Memorial Day target for walkway completion

CELINA - The walkway project and the reconstruction of West Bank Road should both be completed by Memorial Day, city officials learned on Monday night. "We're hoping to be completely done by Memorial Day ... but it's going to b . . .

Change of plea hearing set for murder suspect

ST. MARYS - A Celina man accused of a 33-year-old murder asked a judge Monday for a hearing to change his not guilty plea. Tracy W. Mabry, 52, 8673 U.S. 33, appeared in Auglaize County Common Pleas Court for the first day of a . . .

Community aids family who lost home to fire

MINSTER - The community is showing overwhelming support to a family whose home was destroyed in a massive fire early Monday morning. The David and Anne Puthoff family's two-story farmhouse on Wells Road near Minster and their p . . .

Print Edition Only News Stories

• Celina officials say city finances off to good start

• Harbor House loan change gains approval

• St. Marys council puts renewal levy on ballot

• Man allegedly assaults police officer

• St. Marys schools committee's wish list includes buying new bus, 200 computers

• New Bremen councilors OK funds for canal study

• St. Henry may charge license plate fees

• Coldwater looks at fees for license plates

• Mercer's unemployment still lower than state average

• Stolly's free throw lifts LCC past Celina

• Former teammates Kahlig, Gelhaus square off in college

• Now the official Super Bowl hype can commence

Local Obituaries

Martha Andrews

Martha May Andrews, 82, Rockford and Chattanooga, died at 11:25 p.m. Jan. 25, 2015, at Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, Ind. She was born July 5, 1932, in Pleasant Township, Van Wert County, to Michael G. and Florence M. Osborn K . . .

Leona Mescher

Leona H. Mescher, 95, Stonespring of Vandalia and formerly of Minster, died Jan. 25, 2015. She was born May 14, 1919, in Fort Loramie, to Frederick and Mary Sommer Sanders. On July 1, 1944, in Fort Loramie, she married Albert L . . .

Martha Rindler

Martha J. Rindler, 80, formerly of Maria Stein, died at 11:40 a.m. Jan. 24, 2015, at Elmwood Assisted Living, New Bremen. She was born Aug. 14, 1934, in Maria Stein, to Joseph and Catherine Hasbrook Gast. On April 17, 1978, she . . .

Ruth Beiting

Ruth Marie Vonder Haar Beiting, 82, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, on Jan. 21, 2015. She was born June 20, 1932, in Celina, to Bernadette and Roman Vonder Haar. She was the beloved wife of Thomas L. Beiting f . . .

Joan Overman

Joan F. Overman, 73, Celina and formerly of Maria Stein, died at 6:16 p.m. Jan. 25, 2015, at St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima. She was born July 25, 1941, in Lewisburg to the late Clyde and Leto Virginia Coffman Brower. On June . . .

Charlotte Link

Charlotte Link, 80, died Jan. 26, 2015, at Celina Manor. Funeral Mass is 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Carthagena. Arrangements are being handled by Hogenkamp Funeral Home, Coldwater. . . .

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