Manure-spreading proposal opposed
CELINA - Lake Improvement Association officials plan to send a delegation to testify against proposed changes to the state's distressed-watershed rules when they're reviewed by the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review in Columbus.
CINCINNATI - The latest appeal filed by Nicholas Schwieterman to reverse his conviction on four counts of involuntary manslaughter from a 2008 crash has been denied by the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
ROCKFORD - Village employees will receive 3-percent raises next year.
Council members during Tuesday's meeting approved the raises for eight full-time hourly and salaried employees.
Early voting gets underway
CELINA - Early voting for the Nov. 6 general election got underway Oct. 10 and the Mercer County Board of Elections has been swamped with applications for absentee ballots.
MINSTER - School board members on Monday set administrative salaries that first were approved in July.
Administrators received 3-percent raises for
The drain valve used to lower the lake at the dam near Eldora Speedway on the Wabash River is broken and cannot be fixed until the water level drops.
FORT RECOVERY - Fort Recovery Local Schools officials expect to end the next five years with a cash surplus, but the carryover amounts will decrease from year to year, according to the district's five-year financial forecast.
Bulldogs sweep Wildcats
CELINA - Kenton made Celina work to win the first two sets on Tuesday.
Then the Bulldogs made short work of the Wildcats in set three.
It took just 1 hour and 10 minutes for Celina to sweep Kenton - 25-18, 25-18, 25-8 - to open Division II sectional play at the Celina Intermediate School.
VAN WERT - In their first meeting of the volleyball season, Van Wert defeated St. Marys in four sets.
Tuesday night in the Division II tournament o
All-MAC Volleyball
Coldwater junior Lauren Gilliland was named the Midwest Athletic Conference's Volleyball Player of the Year by a vote of conference coaches released Tuesday.
