ST. HENRY - St. Henry Elementary School Principal Adam Puthoff was hired as the district superintendent at a special school board meeting on Wednesday night.
Puthoff was awarded a three-year contract and will assume his new role effective Aug. 1. Board members were negotiating Puthoff's salary in an executive session following the regular session. No action was anticipated. [More]
CELINA - Mercer Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors in a special meeting this week approved applying for a $40,000 grant to install a cascading waterway and a blind inlet in the Wabash River watershed.
ST. MARYS - Timely hitting in the first two innings staked Parkway to an early lead, and Meg Henkle kept St. Marys in check for six innings to maintain it.
The Panthers scored six runs in the first two innings and padded the lead in the sixth on the way to a 9-2 softball win at K.C. Geiger Park on Tuesday. [More]
CELINA - A Celina City Schools bus driver and bus aide responsible for a preschool student who was mistakenly left unattended on a bus for more than three hours have resigned.
MENDON - More than 20 people packed the village hall during a contentious Tuesday night village council meeting to voice complaints about the town's appearance.
WAPAKONETA- A former city of Wapakoneta utility clerk pleaded guilty in Auglaize County Common Pleas Court on Monday to multiple felony theft and record tampering charges and was ordered to pay more than $250,000 in restitution.
Mercer County once again had the lowest joblessness in Ohio in February.
Mercer County's unemployment rate registered at 2.6% in February, maintaining its January percentage, according to an Ohio Department of Job and Family Services news release.
FORT RECOVERY - Applause rang out from the Fort Recovery High School community room on Monday evening as school board members unanimously approved to hire high school principal Tony Stahl as district superintendent.
After leading Fort Recovery schools for nearly five years, superintendent Larry Brown will resign at the end of July. Stahl will take over on Aug. 1 and his contract will last through July 31, 2027. Brown said he was not privy to the new superintendent's pay. [More]
ST. HENRY - Celina's bats warmed up after a few innings, and St. Henry's defense did the Bulldogs a few favors along the way.
Celina took the lead in the fourth and added on from there on the way to a 10-6 win in the softball season opener at the Wally Post Athletic Complex on Monday. [More]
Margaret Ruth (VonderHaar) Fiely, 92 of Greenville, Ohio, passed away peacefully on Sunday March 26, 2023, at 7:25 AM at the EverHeart Hospice Care Center. [More]
CELINA - More than 90 high school and college students learned about the importance of agriculture education at Wright State University-Lake Campus' Emerging Agriculture Conference on Monday evening.
CELINA - A group of lake supporters no longer plans to hold a family boating event on city property in part because city officials refused to waive rental fees for shelter houses, according to mayor Jeff Hazel.
CELINA - A Berne, Indiana, couple was arrested on Monday morning after Celina police officers reportedly found a substantial amount of suspected heroin in their hotel room at America's Best Value Inn.
Marion Local used a three-run fifth inning to break a 3-3 tie to open the season with a 7-4 win over Allen East in a game moved from Harrod to the Airport in Maria Stein on Monday.
Experts used rocks and fossils to tell future geologists about prehistoric times
By Daily Standard Staff
CELINA - Budding earth scientists learned how much geology rocks during Ohio Geology Discovery Day at Wright State University-Lake Campus on Saturday.
Molly Hunt, a geologist and paleontologist with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' Division of Geological Survey, spoke about Ohio's geology throughout the Paleozoic era. Beginning 541 million years ago, life during this time was primitive and included invertebrates and the earliest forms of fish and amphibians, she said. [More]
The Minster softball team braved the windy conditions and opened the 2023 season with an 11-0 win over Russia on Saturday at Four Seasons Park in Minster.
