Archive - 2013
April 4th
ST. MARYS — Parkway put its full arsenal on display that has the Panthers hoping to be in the thick of the Midwest Athletic Conference title chase again in 2013.
Parkway got four hits and four runs batted in from Kylie Snyder while pitcher Sierra Fent tossed four no-hit innings with eight strikeouts in an 11-0 win over St. Marys at K.C. Geiger Park on Tuesday.
Snyder singled four times in five innings for Parkway. Rachel King doubled and Taylor Walls had a triple. Zoey Pond was 2-for-2 with two runs scored. Kayla Walls scored three runs.
ST. MARYS — The St. Marys baseball team couldn’t take advantage of its two-out bases-loaded situation early in the game. Lima Central Catholic turned that exact scenario a half inning later into what turned out to be the game-deciding rally.
The complexion of the St. Marys-Lima Central Catholic game on Tuesday — a game LCC won 8-4 — changed drastically over the short span of an inning.
ST. MARYS — Hiking, for Maryland-based investor Ed Talone, is about more than the place he is at or the destination at which he plans to arrive.
It’s about a joy he finds in the act of walking, setting mile goals and finding food and kindness along the 50,000 miles of country he’s seen, and will continue seeing as he hikes the Miami Erie Canal up to Toledo through April 13, at a rate of approximately 17 miles per day.
James V. Rosengarten, 65, of Celina, died on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Lima Memorial Hospital.
He was born on Jan. 5, 1948, in Celina, to the late Florian Rosengarten and Martha (Grisez) Rosengarten who survives in Celina.
April 3rd
ST. MARYS — The St. Marys City Schools Board of Education held a special meeting Tuesday night to confirm a list of budget cuts that will be implemented if the levy does not pass this May.
ST. MARYS — Crews arrived on the scene Tuesday to start the process of demolishing a long-standing member of the skyline of the city of St. Marys.
A team of work contractors started roping off the site around the smoke stack to begin the process of tearing down the structure. City officials recently decided to move ahead with the project because of concerns regarding the stack’s integrity.
Thomas J. Froning, 95, of Elmwood of New Bremen, formerly of Second Street, Minster, died at 6:18 p.m. Monday, April 1, 2013, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital.
He was born on Jan. 19, 1918, in Minster, to the late Bernard and Philomena M. (Droesch) Froning.
He married Bernadine F. Poeppelman on Jan. 19, 1946, in Minster. She preceded him in death on Feb. 18, 1993.
April 2nd
SIDNEY — The St. Marys boys tennis team fell in its season-opening match to Sidney Lehman Catholic 4-1 on Monday night.
St. Marys picked up its one win at second singles from Jason Freewalt, who downed Sam Dean 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.
The Cavaliers took the other four matches. Lehman Catholic’s Pierce Bennett defeated St. Marys’ Cole Brooks at first singles, 6-1, 6-0. At third singles, Lehman’s Josh West defeated St. Marys’ Nick Rohr, 6-4, 6-4.
ST. MARYS — One local student is gearing up for the next phase in regional speech contest.
Morgan Henschen, a sixth-grade student at St. Marys Middle School, has already given more public speeches than most people give in a lifetime. Morgan is competing in the Eagles God, Flag and Country Speech zone competition in Wapakoneta on Saturday.
Students in Bridget Sturwold’s sixth-grade class were given the assignment to write a speech that could be presented for the competition, but actually participating was optional.
