Fort Recovery News

Every vote counts is what some learned after a final recount on Monday determined the winners of two council seats in Auglaize County.

Tumbusch Construction of St. Henry has begun replacing water lines along Celina's Main Street - the first step of the Main Street reconstruction project.

Much has been made over the current disagreement in the Ohio Legislature on whether or not an income tax increase ought to be used to fill the Ohio budget shortfall created by the poorly crafted plan to install slot machines at Ohio racetracks that was effectively stopped by the Ohio Supreme Court.

Of the 11,000 or so pre-historic sites in Ohio, several of them are reported to be in Mercer County, according to one of the first histories of Mercer County, published by Rockford Press in the 1950s.

Fort Recovery's Greg Kahlig, seated, will attend the University of Findlay next fall and play basketball for the Oilers.

Corbin Hellwarth, left, and Jacob Whitacre both received awards from the Mercer County Soil and Water Conservation District for being top finishers in this year's Mercer County Soils Judging Contest.

David Hanselmann, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Soil and Water Resources, holds up a new plan to help reduce nutrients from getting into Grand Lake after some crowd members demand to discuss the document during the meeting, rather than afterwards.

Two area youths were injured Thursday afternoon when their four-wheeler was struck by a car near the intersection of Mud Pike and Fleetfoot Road west of Celina.

Fort Recovery's Samantha Tobe, left, leads Versailles' Jordan Smith, middle at the Division III Regional cross country meet at Troy on Saturday.

Voters in the St. Marys City Schools district ousted an incumbent board member in one of five contested school board races held in the Grand Lake area on Tuesday.

Dennis Hecht was named Rockford's Citizen of the Year 2009. On hand at the chamber of commerce banquet were village, county and state dignitaries such as state Rep.

Fort Recovery school's board of education took the first step this week toward accepting funds from the Ohio School Facilities Commission for a school construction project.

The husband of a fired Mercer County Elections Office staffer allegedly tried to leave the board of elections' office with voter registration documents that he had requested to view this week.

To Gov. Ted Strickland, the choice is simple now that the Ohio Supreme Court has derailed his slot machine plan and left the state with an $851 million hole in its K-12 education budget.

It seems to me that Halloween is as good a time as any to relate a story that a tipster just passed on to me.

Sheriff Jeff Grey says records taken from the County Board of Elections have been returned.

Dan Brackman, a former Fort Recovery FFA member, is a finalist for the National FFA proficiency award in diversified livestock, one of just four people chosen from across the nation to compete.

Students investigate a farm field on Coldwater Creek Road during the 7th annual Mercer County Soils Judging Contest.

Fort Recovery's Hayden Pottkotter follows through on his tee shot during the Indians' trimatch on Monday at The Mercer County Elks.

Logan Deitsch, St. Marys, measures the slope in a farm field on Coldwater Creek Road as Kara Uhlenhake, Coldwater, records her findings during the 7th annual Mercer County Soils Judging Contest.