Wapakoneta News

By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor By one vote, Wapakoneta City Schools Board of Education members implemented drug testing in the district for the 2010-11 school year.

Wapakoneta Police Lt.. Greg Lowry listens to an explanation by members of the Wapakoneta Civil Service Commission regarding its test for police chief.

By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor By one vote, Wapakoneta City Schools Board of Education members implemented drug testing in the district for the 2010-11 school year.

By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor Ohio Environmental Protection Agency officials last week tentatively approved a plan submitted by Wapakoneta city administrators to deal with the downtown's combined sewer overflows to help eliminate raw sewage from entering the Auglaize River.

By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor Ohio Environmental Protection Agency officials last week tentatively approved a plan submitted by Wapakoneta city administrators to deal with the downtown's combined sewer overflows to help eliminate raw sewage from entering the Auglaize River.

By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor At $298,000, an Auglaize County official is asking for approximately $4,000 less from the Aug-laize County Commissioners to run her office in 2010.

By MATT NICHOLS Staff Writer Being one of the last to walk out of the Wapakoneta Middle School gymnasium following Tuesday's Veterans Day ceremony, a look of pride befell William John's face.

By MATT NICHOLS Staff Writer Being one of the last to walk out of the Wapakoneta Middle School gymnasium following Tuesday's Veterans Day ceremony, a look of pride befell William John's face.

By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor Wapakoneta City Schools District administrators and representatives of the local teacher's union agree that they are continuing to negotiate contracts, but Wapakoneta Education Association president says teachers have authorized a strike if they remain at an impasse.

By MATT NICHOLS Staff Writer Being one of the last to walk out of the Wapakoneta Middle School gymnasium following Tuesday's Veterans Day ceremony, a look of pride befell William John's face.

By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor Wapakoneta City Schools District administrators and representatives of the local teacher's union agree that they are continuing to negotiate contracts, but Wapakoneta Education Association president says teachers have authorized a strike if they remain at an impasse.

By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor With one employee resigning for another job and grants covering the salary of two others, the Auglaize County Soil and Water Conservation District was able to submit a proposed budget for 2010 that is 22 percent less than this year.

By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor With one employee resigning for another job and grants covering the salary of two others, the Auglaize County Soil and Water Conservation District was able to submit a proposed budget for 2010 that is 22 percent less than this year.

By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor Classes in the Wapakoneta City Schools District are to continue as usual, the superintendent said this morning, despite a confirmed case of H1N1.

Wapakoneta Mayor Rodney Metz, at left, talks with state Assistant Secretary of State Mike Rankin while they tour the Wapakoneta High School renovation and construction site.

By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor Representatives from a Dayton engineering firm charged with reviewing facets of school building and renovation projects updated members of the Wapakoneta City School Board of Education on progress this week.

By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor Despite their best efforts to keep costs down, educators at the Auglaize County Ohio State University Extension Office say it's getting tougher to make ends meet.

MARYS - With 300 dogs already passing through his door, the Auglaize County Dog Warden says officers continue to remain busy.

No one can questions the heart and determination that Bryan and Napoleon showed in Thursday's sectional final at Defiance High School.

By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor Audrey Rose Hoover, who was born in 1959, dies in a horrific car crash - burning to death.