Burkettsville News

Mother and son Patty and Ryan Rosenbeck wait on a customer at 5 Brothers Bar and Grill in Burkettsville.

Burkettsville resident Dwayne Lorton, at left, listens intently during his Monday afternoon sentencing in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.

Burkettsville resident Dwayne E. Lorton showed no emotion Monday afternoon as Mercer County Common Pleas Court Judge Jeffrey Ingraham sentenced him to 20 years in prison on four counts of rape.

Late planting due to a wet spring, unseasonably cool weather and a lack of rainfall are combining to put a triple whammy on local crops.

David Rauh of New Weston grills hamburgers for hungry festivalgoers at the Burkettsville Community Picnic.

The Burkettsville Ohio Community Picnic was host to the 6th Annual Co-Ed Volleyball Tournament this year on August 8th.

Ivo Schwieterman's memory of the Korean War is much different than most. There are no bloody battlefields or noisy gunfire in his recollection as a soldier in the Army National Guard in the 50s.

Volunteers Wilma Heitkamp, left, and Mary Ann Hemmelgarn, right, do patterning therapy on Ermil Dunwoody, a client at the Center for Neurological Development in Burkettsville.

Roger Timmerman of Fort Recovery stands with the aid of an adaptive device at the Center for Neurological Development in Burkettsville.

Some county residents are battling high water following Thursday night's rain, which some farmers' rain gauges measured at 3 to 4 inches.