Minster News

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.

Saturday October 17, 2009 Tailgate event to benefit group Staff photo/Angela Weaver:Members of Reliable Tent Rental set up the tent outside the St.

Memorial services will begin at 11 a.m. Friday at Chiles-Laman Funeral Homes, Bluffton.

Thursday, 08 October 2009 By KATIE YANTIS Staff Writer MINSTER - Parents of Minster High School students attended an informational session Wednesday night that will help prepare them for the next steps of their students' education.

A community of 2800 people is gearing up for 60,000 visitors for the 35th Annual Minster Oktoberfest.

Third-graders from Minster Elementary School toured local streets and listened to a Frantz Joseph Stallo impersonator as part of the annual German Heritage program sponsored by the Minster Historical Society.

Staff photo/Katie Yantis: Jeff Wells, left, Dave and Carol Stelts and Jeff Deatherage pose with the heaviest pumpkin during the annual Pumpkinfest in New Bremen.

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.

By KATIE YANTIS Staff Writer A new event has been planned to kick off this year's United Way of Auglaize County Campaign.

Mother Nature threw a foggy complication into the works Wednesday morning leading to delays and ultimate closures for many schools in Mercer and Auglaize counties.

The following are school closings and delays as of 11 a.m. Wednesday: St. Marys - closed Grand Lake Christian School - closed Celina - closed Wapakoneta - closed New Bremen - 3 hour delay New Knoxville - 3 hour delay Minster - 3 hour delay Auglaize Industries - 2 hour delay Check back for regular updates to this list.

The cancellation of more than 200 voter registrations by the Mercer County Board of Elections office staff has been called into question and is being reviewed by a bi-partisan committee of the Mercer County Election Board.

ELLIS, Helen D. - 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hartman Sons Funeral Home, Columbus Grove. Burial: Vaughnsville Cemetery.

Burial: IOOF Cemetery, Convoy. Visitation: one hour prior to services today at the church.

Norman W. Ruley, 80, died at 7 a.m. Aug. 27, 2009, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St.

By KATIE YANTIS Staff Writer ST. MARYS - Local school administrators will be returning to an old policy with the repeal of a controversial piece of legislation.

Seven of the nine local school districts struggled with the social studies achievement tests last school year as did the rest of the state, according to the 2008-09 school year report cards released Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Education.

By MATT NICHOLS Staff Writer Hand John Rausch a blank canvas, and the possibilities become endless.

Friday August 14, 2009 SummerFest Opens Friday, 14 August 2009 By ANGELA WEAVER Staff Writer ST.

By ANGELA WEAVER Staff Writer The sounds of cows, horses and chickens could be heard from a barn at the Auglaize County Fair on Saturday night, but those noises did not come from any animals.