Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued March 22 at 9:27PM EDT until March 22 at 10:15PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

SVRILN
The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Shelby County in west central Ohio... Northwestern Champaign County in west central Ohio... Western Logan County in west central Ohio... Darke County in west central Ohio... Southern Auglaize County in west central Ohio... Southeastern Mercer County in west central Ohio... Miami County in west central Ohio...
* Until 1015 PM EDT.
* At 927 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near New Bremen to near Fountain City, moving east at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Law enforcement.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible.
* Locations impacted include... Troy, Sidney, Piqua, Bellefontaine, Greenville, Tipp City, West Milton, New Bremen, Minster, Versailles, Covington, Arcanum, Newport, Bradford, Anna, Fort Loramie, Jackson Center, Russells Point, De Graff, and Pleasant Hill.
This includes I-75 in Ohio between mile markers 67 and 106.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued March 22 at 5:43PM EDT until March 23 at 12:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 73 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN INDIANA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES
IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
FAYETTE UNION WAYNE
IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA
DEARBORN FRANKLIN OHIO RIPLEY SWITZERLAND
IN KENTUCKY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 3 COUNTIES
IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY
BOONE CAMPBELL KENTON
IN OHIO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 32 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL OHIO
DELAWARE FAIRFIELD FAYETTE FRANKLIN HOCKING LICKING MADISON PICKAWAY UNION
IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO
ADAMS HIGHLAND PIKE ROSS SCIOTO
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO
BROWN BUTLER CLERMONT CLINTON HAMILTON WARREN
IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO
AUGLAIZE CHAMPAIGN CLARK DARKE GREENE HARDIN LOGAN MERCER MIAMI MONTGOMERY PREBLE SHELBY
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, ADA, ALEXANDRIA, AURORA, BATESVILLE, BEAVERCREEK, BELLEFONTAINE, BELLEVUE, BLANCHESTER, BRIGHT, BROOKVILLE, BURLINGTON, CAMDEN, CELINA, CHILLICOTHE, CIRCLEVILLE, COLDWATER, CONNERSVILLE, COVINGTON, DAY HEIGHTS, DAYTON, DELAWARE, DILLSBORO, DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI, DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS, DOWNTOWN DAYTON, EATON, ERLANGER, FAIRBORN, FAIRFIELD, FLORENCE, FORT THOMAS, FRANKLIN, GEORGETOWN, GREENDALE, GREENFIELD, GREENVILLE, HAMILTON, HIDDEN VALLEY, HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, HILLSBORO, INDEPENDENCE, KENTON, KETTERING, LANCASTER, LANDEN, LAWRENCEBURG, LEBANON, LIBERTY, LOGAN, LONDON, MANCHESTER, MARYSVILLE, MASON, MIDDLETOWN, MILAN, MILFORD, MINSTER, MOUNT CARMEL, MOUNT ORAB, MOUNT REPOSE, MULBERRY, NEW BREMEN, NEWARK, NEWPORT, OAKBROOK, OSGOOD, OXFORD, PEEBLES, PICKERINGTON, PIKE LAKE, PIKETON, PIQUA, PLAIN CITY, PORTSMOUTH, RICHMOND, RIPLEY, RISING SUN, SEAMAN, SIDNEY, SPRINGBORO, SPRINGFIELD, ST. MARYS, SUMMERSIDE, TIPP CITY, TROY, URBANA, VERSAILLES, VEVAY, WAPAKONETA, WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, WAVERLY, WEST COLLEGE CORNER, WEST JEFFERSON, WEST UNION, WHEELERSBURG, WILMINGTON, WINCHESTER, WITHAMSVILLE, AND XENIA.

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Union, Carlysle Group reach tentative deal

By Janie Southard

ST. MARYS - United Steelworkers (USW) and the Carlysle Group reached a tentative agreement late Thursday night.

If ratified by a simple majority of the union workforce, the local Goodyear plant and 31 others in Goodyear's Engineered Products Division will be owned by Carlysle Group and would operate as EPD Inc.

"It looks fine but I cannot give any details until the information is presented to our members at an informational meeting, which we're setting up right now (to take place) in about two weeks," USW Local 200 Vice President Rick Niekamp told The Daily Standard during a telephone Friday afternoon.

Niekamp would not comment on if the deal would include employee buyouts or as to the length of the possible new contract between Carlysle and the 6,000 plus union employees working in Goodyear's Engineered Products Division worldwide.

"If we ratify, Carlysle will own the place but I don't know how long the actual (turnover process) will take," Niekamp said. "Of course, we'll still be under the Goodyear sign."

Terms of the sale that took place in March made the Goodyear name and trademark available to EPD for the next two decades. Carlysle offered $1.475 billion for the Goodyear division, the sale of which can only be completed when an acceptable master contract is reached with the USW.

Negotiations have been on and off since early June and began in earnest last Monday in Pittsburgh, home of the union's international headquarters.

Recently the City of St. Marys and Auglaize County commissioners approved the transfer of Goodyear's exisiting enterprise zone agreement to EPD Inc. At that time a Goodyear representative said the sale is expected to be completed by early September.

Of the total plants involved in the sale, six are union plants located in the United States and Canada. The other facilities are in Europe. The entire Goodyear division generated sales of more than $1.5 billion last year.

The Carlyle Group is a Washington, D.C.-based global private equity investment firm with more than $56 billion of equity capital under management, a Web site about the firm states.

The firm operates four fund families, focusing on leveraged buyouts, venture and growth capital, real estate and leveraged finance investments. The firm employs more than 395 investment professionals in 18 countries with several offices in North America, Europe and Asia; its portfolio companies employ 200,000 people worldwide. Carlyle has over 1000 investors in 57 countries.

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District spends $250,000 less than expected

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St. Henry to pursue speed study

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Council gives village administrator pay raise

NEW BREMEN - Village administrator Wayne York received a pay raise Tuesday night after New Bremen councilors emerged from a 31-minute executive session.

Coldwater stays alive behind rally in seventh

Minster cruises past Fort Loramie

COLDWATER - Twice, Fort Recovery had a chance to keep its role of Cinderella alive in the ACME District Tournament.

And twice, Coldwater did its impression of the clock striking midnight.

Trio of runs enough for Mariners to win on the road at Xenia

Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

Grand Lake got all the runs it needed in the first two innings to improve to 13-11 with a 3-2 win over Xenia on Friday night at the Athletes In Action Baseball Complex. Xenia drops to 5-22 on the summer.