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Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 11 at 12:32PM EDT until August 11 at 1:15PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

SVRILN
The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Shelby County in west central Ohio... Northeastern Preble County in west central Ohio... Darke County in west central Ohio... Southwestern Auglaize County in west central Ohio... Southern Mercer County in west central Ohio... Western Miami County in west central Ohio...
* Until 115 PM EDT.
* At 1232 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Portland, moving southeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Broadcast media.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines.
* Locations impacted include... Troy, Sidney, Piqua, Greenville, Tipp City, West Milton, Coldwater, New Bremen, Minster, Versailles, Covington, St. Henry, Arcanum, Newport, Bradford, Union City, Fort Loramie, Fort Recovery, Pleasant Hill, and Ansonia.
This includes I-75 in Ohio between mile markers 70 and 99.

Flood Watch issued August 11 at 12:05PM EDT until August 12 at 8:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible.
* WHERE...Portions of Indiana, including the following counties, Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland, Union and Wayne, Kentucky, including the following counties, Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Lewis, Mason, Owen, Pendleton and Robertson, and Ohio, including the following counties, Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Darke, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Hardin, Highland, Hocking, Licking, Logan, Madison, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Pickaway, Pike, Preble, Ross, Scioto, Shelby, Union and Warren.
* WHEN...Through Wednesday morning.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - Several rounds of thunderstorms are expected into Wednesday morning. Locally heavy rainfall can be expected with the potential for storms to repeatedly track over the same locations. This will result in the potential for flash flooding.

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Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

Celina advances in quest to snag grant

By William Kincaid

CELINA - The city this morning was selected as one of 50 quarterfinalists in the America's Best Communities competition, which offers a $3 million grand prize.

City council will match today's $35,000 award with $15,000 to pay for an economic devel [More]

Indians take advantage of error to beat Cavs

Fort Recovery gets first victory over Coldwater since 1981

By Gary R. Rasberry

COLDWATER - Fans making the trek to Veterans Field Tuesday night got to see a classic Midwest Athletic Conference baseball game.

Coldwater led 2-1 after the first inning, but was shut down by Fort Recovery's Jackson Hobbs for the remainder of the game. The Indians came back and won the game in the top of the seventh to stay unbeaten with a 3-2 win over the defending Division III state champions. [More]

Obituaries on April 29th, 2015

Viola Schmidt

Viola M. Schmidt age 89 of Yorkshire, Ohio died at 11:35 a.m. on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at her home. [More]

Magdalene Vohs

Magdalene Sophia Vohs, 94, of New Knoxville, Ohio, was welcomed home at 3:00 P.M. Saturday, April 25, 2015, by her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. [More]

Audrey Wietholter

Former New Knoxville resident Audrey (Doey) M. Wietholter, age 93, passed away Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at the St. Marys Living Center in St. Marys, Ohio. [More]

Virginia Weyandt

Virginia F. Weyandt, age 92 of Celina, Ohio passed away at 11:15 a.m. on Monday April 27, 2015 at home with her family by her side. [More]

Ralph Wuebker

Ralph F. Wuebker, 88, Fort Recovery, Ohio, died April 27, 2015 at Celina Manor, Celina, OH. [More]

Doris Cordier

Doris L. Cordier, 87, Celina, died at 12:30 p.m. April 28, 2015, at Briarwood V [More]

Local pictures on April 29th, 2015

Subscriber stories on April 29th, 2015

City fixing parking lot where employee hurt in fall

CELINA - City officials plan to pave the northern half of the parking lot behind the city administration building on Main Street after an employee was injured in a fall.

West Bank work slows

CELINA - The discovery of excess moisture in the subgrade of West Bank Road temporarily delayed the nearly $1 million reconstruction project.

Work

Election officials back online registration

CELINA - Cost and time savings are the biggest reasons local board of elections officials support a continuing campaign to establish online voter registration.

Commissioners OK Fort annexation

CELINA - Mercer County Commissioners on Tuesday approved the annexation of more than 6 acres of land into the village of Fort Recovery.

It was the

Local gym offers new fitness program

CELINA - Five local owners are the first in the United States to offer a new fitness program.

The F45 Training center in Celina is the company's first U.S. franchise.

Wilker shuts out Bulldogs

St. Marys now all alone atop WBL standings

ST. MARYS - St. Marys pitcher Nathan Wilker was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the fifth inning to put his team in front 1-0 on Celina. Isaac Fitzgerald provided him with some additional run support on the next at-bat.

Vogel's blast leads Celina past St. Marys

CELINA - The three R's are education's basic elements: reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic.

Softball has its own elements called the three P's: Patience, pitching, power.

NetDogs edge 'Riders

Compiled by Colin Foster and
Gary R. Rasberry

Celina received solid contributions from their doubles teams and picked up the squad's fifth Western Buckeye League boys tennis dual match win by beating rival St.Marys 3-2 on Tuesday at the Booster Club Tennis Courts at the high school.

Lincoln, Freewalt win Series opener

The Grand Lake Crappie Series held its first event last Saturday on the east side of Grand Lake.

P.H. Lincoln and Mike Freewalt took home first pla

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