CELINA - Fall is one of the best times of year to get outdoors and explore, whether it be hiking, camping or simply sitting by a bonfire.

For many Mercer and Auglaize county residents, fall is also the season for another favorite outdoor activity: hunting and trapping. [More]

Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

Van Wert needed a tiebreaker to decide the Western Buckeye League boys golf tournament over St. Marys on Thursday.

Van Wert and St. Marys each finished play with matching 334s on the Roughriders' home course at Northmoor. The fifth-golfer tiebreak went the Cougars' way, 94-95, to give the Cougars a sweep of the regular season and tournament titles and the outright league championship. [More]

Talking to several people who knew Brian Harlamert, the emotions were obvious over the phone.

Harlamert, who was part of two Coldwater's state baseball championships as a player and later coached the team to its two most-recent state crowns, died in his sleep on Wednesday at 51. [More]

  School district report cards from the Ohio Department of Education for the 2021-2022 school year are in, giving parents and community members valuable information on student and school performance.

Districts receive star ratings for five components - achievement, progress, gap closing, graduation and early literacy. [More]

ST. MARYS - For the third straight time, the St. Marys girls soccer team was held without a goal against Shawnee.

This time, the Roughriders put up a clean sheet of their own.

Keeper Ella Jacobs made eight saves, including a stop with 2:42 to go, and the Roughriders battled to a 0-0 draw in Western Buckeye League action at Roughrider Field on Tuesday. [More]

This year's National Hazing Prevention Week, Sept. 19-23, encourages student involvement to prevent campus deaths from initiation. Wright State University's 2022 theme for the celebration is "Raider Hands Don't Haze."

Students on the main campus covered an anti-hazing display with handprints beneath the slogan. [More]