Winter Weather Advisory issued February 5 at 12:28PM EST until February 6 at 6:00PM EST by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations up to two inches with locally higher amounts.
* WHERE...Portions of east central and southeast Indiana, northeast and northern Kentucky, and central, south central, southwest, and west central Ohio.
* WHEN...From 6 AM to 6 PM EST Friday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous conditions could impact the Friday morning and evening commutes.
Today 21° Today 21° chance 18° 18° chance Tomorrow 33° Tomorrow 33° light likely 2° 2°
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Thursday, April 30th, 2020
Mother (and family) doing fine
Nurse with COVID-19 gave birth, now home and slowly recovering
By Sydney Albert
CELINA - Megan Sites, a local nurse and mother who had been hospitalized due to COVID-19, is back home and looking forward to a return to normalcy, though she acknowledged that process will probably take time.
Many in the community have heard Site [More]
Changes due to the virus
By Daily Standard Staff
Chickasaw Picnic is canceled
CHICKASAW - Chickasaw Picnic organizers have postponed the annual event due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Committee members decided holding the festival during the scheduled weekend of June 5-7 would be impossible, park board president T.J. Hess said. [More]
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Ohio firm to sanitize used masks
CELINA - A Columbus-based private research lab has vowed to vastly stretch the life of Mercer County Emergency Medical Services' supply of N95 masks by decontaminating them at its West Jefferson campus.
No new local COVID-19 cases reported
CELINA - No new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Mercer or Auglaize County on Wednesday.
The Mercer County Health District has reported 18 confir
Local ditches to be sprayed
CELINA - Crews are tentatively scheduled to begin this year's herbicidal spray application in open drainage ditches in Mercer County, according to county engineer Jim Wiechart.
Amazing Athletes
'Skills'
When he was a student-athlete at Ohio University, Ken Heiby roomed with future Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt.
If he had played baseball, Heiby probably could have helped out Schmidt and the Bobcats.
Amazing Athletes
'Scorer'
Liz Meiring helped begin the rise of the Fort Recovery girls basketball program, but it was Val (Gaerke) Blasingame who primed the team for state titles.
OHSAA moves state cross country meet venue
The Ohio High School Athletic Association cross country state championships are moving to Fortress Obetz, a 50-acre multi-purpose sports complex with a 6,500-seat grandstand located in Obetz on the southeast side of Columbus, OHSAA Executive Director Jerry Snodgrass announced Wednesday.
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