Green Camp News

MARION - The defense and prosecution in the case of Angel Chevalier will file written memorandums in lieu of closing arguments before a judge will make a ruling on a suppression hearing.

An ice cream ride among four friends in the summer of 2008 has grown into Marion County's newest bicycle tour.

GREEN CAMP - The fifth meeting of the Green Camp Shamrocks was held June 7 at the home of Pat Baldinger.

MARION - One witness remains to testify in a suppression hearing for statements made by a 13-year-old student immediately after an incident in which she allegedly stabbed a classmate in the back in early January.

GREEN CAMP - The annual Elgin Junior High awards assembly was held on the last day of school.

GREEN CAMP: Lucile Mary Carey, age 99, of Green Camp went to be with the Lord early Monday morning June 8, 2009 at her home.

School's out, most of the buses will stayed parked for the summer and many school employees are enjoying their summer breaks.

MARION - A girl accused of stabbing a classmate in the back several times remains incarcerated at the juvenile detention center almost six months following the alleged incident.

GREEN CAMP - The third meeting of the Green Camp Shamrocks was held at the home of Dana Patrick.

RICHWOOD: Theodore Wayne 'Ted' Reynolds, age 58 of Richwood, died Sunday, May 24, 2009 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.

GREEN CAMP - Central Ohio farmers Co-op is having a raffle at the Marion County Relay For Life event on Friday, June 5, starting at 6 p.m. First place prize for the raffle is a football signed by Archie Griffin.

MARION - At least eight possibilities for Community Development Block Grant formula funds were presented to the county for consideration in distributing its $86,000 budget this year.

Voting tabulations for Tuesday's primary election were delayed for a short time when reader cards were left at a Green Camp precinct and needed to be retrieved.

Residents in the northeastern side of the county and part of Morrow County passed a fire protection levy by 26 votes Tuesday, according to preliminary results from both boards of elections.

A local soldier is home on a 15-day emergency leave to meet his 1-month-old son.

A firetruck idles at the enterance of the POET biorefining plant after high temperature alarms were tripped in a grain drying chamber and fire departments were called to the plant to stand by.

The Green Camp Fire Department received a $2,000 grant for a gear washer from the Mid Ohio Energy Community Fund.

MORRAL - Pigs and chickens were lost in a barn fire early Monday morning on the north side of the county.

Police Beat items are compiled from reports of Marion area law enforcement agencies.

MARION - Clifford Wayne Weston, 81, of Marion, stepped into his eternal home with his Lord and Savior on Wednesday evening March 25, 2009 at the Marion Pointe Care Facility after an extended illness.