Columbus Grove News

Karen J. Eastman, 58, died at 3:35 p.m. Dec. 7, 2009, at her residence. She was born May 22, 1951, in Sidney to Avery and Roxie Martin Poole.

ARNOLD, Erma M. - 10:30 a.m. today at Pleasant View Church of the Brethren, Lima.

After a 10-year run the Ohio Department of Agriculture is ending its competitive Outstanding Century Farms program that awarded eight aluminum signs and one bronze plaque a year to families who were judged to have the most interesting and well documented histories on the land.

Wayne L. Holt, 91, died at 6 p.m. Dec. 1, 2009, at Lima Manor Nursing Home. He was born Aug.

John H. Begg, 76, died at 11:30 a.m. Nov. 29, 2009, in Pinetta, Fla. He was born Feb.

Brenda J. Meyers, 56, of Holgate, formerly of Lima, died peacefully Nov. 29, 2009, at her residence.

Joan K. and James W. Mason were married on Nov. 28, 1959, at St. John Lutheran Church, Port Clinton, by the Rev.

CONLEY, Mary L. "Louise" - Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 11 a.m. today at St.

Harold B. "Hattie" Halker, 87, died at 6:10 a.m. Nov. 11, 2009, at The Meadows of Kalida in Kalida.

Two women who died in a trailer fire on Columbus Grove's North Main Street early Saturday morning have been identified.

It was a good night in Putnam County for two countywide levies and two school renewal income tax levies for Fort Jennings and Columbus Grove with nearly 53 percent voter turnout in the county.

Two people face a judge this morning after a hit-and-run incident in Perrysburg Township that injured one person.

The Columbus Grove Police Department has released the names of the two local women who died Saturday morning in a fire that occurred in a trailer at 202 N. Main St.

COLUMBUS GROVE, Ohioa 'Authorities are investigating to find the cause of a trailer fire in northwest Ohio that killed two women and a pet on Halloween.

Two females died in a trailer fire reported at 1:54 a.m. Saturday on Columbus Grove's North Main Street across from Jennings-Gomer Equity's grain elevator.

Visitation: 2 p.m. until time of services today at the funeral home. ALEXANDER, Benson Sumner - 2:30 p.m. today at Meyer Community Chapel at Otterbein Retirement Community, St.

Donald E. Griffith, 86, died at 3 p.m. Oct. 5, 2009, at The Meadows of Kalida in Kalida.

The wife of the Putnam County sheriff has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $100,000 from the Ohio Farmers Union.

Trading Travis Hafner would be a difficult task because of the more than $37 million remaining on his current contract.

A Pandora man died Tuesday after the bicycle he was riding was struck by a car on Ohio 12.