Archive - Jun 6, 2012 - News Article
Two “people of interest” have been named in a case involving the drowning of a dog found Saturday at Grand Lake St. Marys.
Grand Lake St. Marys State Park Manager Brian Miller said park officials were notified Saturday by deputies with the Auglaize County Sheriff’s Office that a dog was found submerged in the lake inside a cage near Rustic Haven Campgrounds in St. Marys Township. The dog had drowned.
Law enforcement officials immediately started an investigation which resulted in information obtained up from the cage.
For one Wapakoneta High School junior, the second time was a charm. However, she is hoping the old adage of “third time is a charm” will hold true.
After filling out the application during her sophomore year but not placing, junior Nicole Brown connected the second time around with a third place finish in entrepreneurship at the state level in FFA competition.
In its second year, there is a new sponsor, a new course and a new date for the Wapakoneta Firecracker 5K run and walk.
But one thing has not changed, an organizer says, the event is fun for the entire family.
A local retiring teacher was once a student in the classroom where she taught.
Elisha Smith, a Wapakoneta Middle School sixth-grade teacher, retired at the end of the school year, and her science and social studies classroom was once her chemistry classroom when she attended high school.
Smith, a 1975 graduate of Wapakoneta High School, attended classes in the former high school in the now middle school building.
