Mercer County News

Monday, 09 November 2009 Staff photo/Katie Yantis: Kelsey Smith, 15, receives the H1N1 vaccination from Auglaize County Health Department Nurse Denise Brown Sunday afternoon in New Bremen.

Friday November 6, 2009 Facebook Helps Women Reconnect Staff photo/Katie Yantis: Mary Brown, top left, Kim Koening, Kristy Baucher, bottom left, Shelli Adams and Molli Frey pose for a photograph following a recent interview.

Eaton, Ohio - Residents of Preble County and members of the law enforcement family are mourning the loss of one of their protectors today.

Editor's note: The name of this domestic violence survivor has been changed to protect her identity.

Dennis Hecht was named Citizen of the Year 2009 at the Rockford Chamber of Commerce banquet Thursday night.

The Auglaize County Sheriff's Office is now participating in a service that allows the agency to distribute important information to the public via the Internet, e-mail and cell phones.

Increasing drug activity in the community led Coldwater Police Chief Randy Waltmire and others to bring members of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office to the village this week for a special Operation Street Smart presentation.

Mercer County has confirmed its third case of H1N1 flu and officials are awaiting test results on four others.

There will be a special drawing at noon Oct. 31 at the Mercer Wildlife Area office on state Route 703 to determine who can trap in the state wildlife area Nov.

Celina Police continue to investigate an armed robbery Sunday afternoon at the Dollar General store, 1905 Havemann Road.

A local company is seeking several county-owned lots in Franklin Township to start a business where materials can be sorted for recycling.

Shortages also are being felt at health departments in Mercer and Auglaize counties as cases of the flu - most likely the H1N1 strain - have become widespread locally and across the state.

A man is being held in the Mercer County Jail after being arrested in connection with a series of dumpster fires.

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.

By MATT NICHOLS Staff Writer Less than a month away from the Nov. 3 general election, two candidates in one of the few contested political races in Auglaize County formally introduced themselves during a Thursday luncheon - and controversial topics on this year's ballot also were further explained.

Carl Martin from Lima Radio Hospital installs part of the MARCS radio system in the trunk of a Mercer County Sheriff's car trunk Wednesday morning at the St Henry firehouse.

The village is next in line to compete for a $300,000 neighborhood revitalization Community Development Block Grant , said Mercer County Economic Development Director Jared Ebbing.

Celina toddler Jada Sharkey, 20 months old, isn't any happier about getting a flu shot than her mother during a visit to the Mercer County-Celina City Health Department on Thursday.

The 235th birthday of America's earliest forester and environmentalist - the wandering Johnny Appleseed - was celebrated in Rockford on Thursday afternoon with a special tree planting.