Tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, cucumbers and squash everywhere. Toss in green beans, wax beans, pumpkins and peppers of every shape and size. Stir in unusual specimens for added interest. [More]

It is too soon to determine the exact effect the merger of Reynolds & Reynolds Co. and Universal Computer Systems will have on the company's Celina production facility. [More]

Mercer County Board of Zoning Appeals members are close to approving a variance that would allow 84 park model homes to be built at Kozy Marina on the north shore of Grand Lake, but still delayed the decision another month. [More]

WAPAKONETA - A shortage of meningitis vaccine across the U.S. has some health experts concerned as college students head to classes this fall.

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Mercer County will spend $30,000 from its solid waste funding to hold its annual household hazardous materials pickup later this month.

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BURKETTSVILLE -Property owners in the village may have to pay Darke County permit and inspection fees on future construction, electrical or heating and cooling work if a proposal now being considered by council is approved.

BURKETTSVILLE - The contract presented for consideration to council Monday would give Darke County exclusive rights to conduct commercial and industrial building inspections and issue permits.

As revisions to the new Ohio sewage regulations continue, one local health official has doubts whether it will be ready for implementation by its effective date January 1, 2007.

A planned $2.1 million extension of the county's Northeast Sanitary Sewer District that would lift an EPA building ban is heading for final approval.

Mercer County officials are hoping to get permission from Ohio Department of Development officials to reallocate $25,000 from the county's 2005 Community Development Block Grant formula money.

NEW BREMEN -  New Bremen village councilors Tuesday night dusted off a tabled ordinance dealing with a new step pay plan that takes into account education, risk factors, licensing incentives and clothing allowances.

WAPAKONETA - Auglaize County Board of Elections members and staff are gearing up for the November election, but not without one red flag.

The stumbling block may be state's new requirement that voters must provide acceptable identification.

A Celina man will spend more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to seven drug-related charges stemming from a March 2 search of his home.

Troy-based Miami Mutual Insurance Co. is expected to affiliate with Celina Insurance Group in the next two to three months, if the Ohio Department of Insurance approves the merger as expected.