Archive - Mar 16, 2012
The long-awaited grant of nearly $2.3 million to finally bring new sanitary sewers to Pleasant Mills, Roe Acres, Monmouth, Bobo, and Arcadia Village has finally been received by the Regional Sewer District (RSD), according to Berry Scherer of the RSD and Ben Adams of Commonwealth Engineering.
Adams and Scherer told Adams County Commissioners this week that the total project cost is $4.51 million, leaving approximately $2.481 million needed to finish the project.
Although spring doesn't officially begin until next Tuesday, you can't tell by the weather conditions.
The temperature topped out at a stunning 79 degrees on Thursday at the Decatur weather station — and no immediate end to the warm spell is expected!
Normal highs for this time of the year are 48, which Thursday's high here topped by a whopping 31 degrees! Normal lows are 28.
Ina May Dormire, 82, of Uniondale, passed away on March 15, 2012, in Bluffton.
Herman W. Hammond, 87, Decatur, died Thursday in Adams Memorial Hospital.
Arrangements are pending at Zwick and Jahn Funeral Home.
Jolene Joy Heyerley, 62, Decatur, died Thursday at her residence.
Arrangements are pending at Zwick and Jahn Funeral Home.
Daniel A. Shoaf, 69, Decatur, died Thursday in Lutheran Hospital.
Arrangements are pending at Zwick and Jahn Funeral Home.
The formation of a not-for-profit athletic foundation that would allow the school district to raise private funds for athletic department endeavors is taking shape, members of the North Adams school board learned at their monthly meeting Tuesday night.
After day one and 16 games completed, there are no perfect brackets out of 122 entries and only two public brackets have 15 out of 16 right.
Mason Selking and Brian Zeser are tied for first place at the moment with the only one mistake. There are several brackets with only two wrong.
Sarah D. Bultemeier, 33, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, March 14, 2012.
Born in Fort Wayne, Sarah graduated from Fort Wayne Christian High School, received her Bachelor's Degree from Huntington College, and her Master's in teaching from Indiana Wesleyan. Sarah taught at Fort Wayne Christian and Keystone School.
She was a member of Emmaus Lutheran Church on Covington Road, MOPS and Ribbon Chicks Support Group. Sarah enjoyed spending time with her girls, reading, shopping and scrapbooking.
Elodee J. Marbaugh, 75, of Willshire, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday, March 14, 2012, in the Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice Center, in Van Wert, Ohio.
She was born on Friday, November 13, 1936, in Van Wert County, Ohio, the daughter of the late Harry E. and Edith E. (Snyder) Nye.
She married Thomas E. Marbaugh on August 21, 1954.
Elodee was a former member of the Willshire United Methodist Church, where she served as the treasurer for many years.
