Signs decorate Natalie Feliciano's locker at Celina High School in silent tribute to a caring teenager who packed a lot of living into 17 short years [More]

Efforts for a joint water system between Mercer County and Celina are in limbo as the city works toward a solution for its water woes and county officials play the waiting game.

Mercer County and Celina city officials continue to move forward with plans for a joint sewer system, including a new treatment plant northeast of Celina.

Celina city officials have received tentative approval to increase the city sewer plant's permitted capacity from 2.5 million gallons per day to 3 million gallons.

ST. MARYS - Library board members voted to put a mileage limit on the proctoring service currently offered.

Effective immediately, St. Marys Community Public Library will offer proctoring to students of colleges/universities located only in excess of 50 miles from St. Marys.

The Mercer County Soil and Water Conservation District is developing a protocol for reporting alleged violations of regulations for spreading manure on frozen ground, SWCD board members learned on Thursday.

Numbers from a $9,200 Mercer County Community Assessment survey are complete and indicate alcohol abuse is a prevalent local problem.

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A Celina man has been sentenced to community control sanctions after pleading guilty to aggravated assault in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.

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A co-worker here at the newspaper office recently began watering the potted amaryllis bulb on her desk. It sat there, un-touched and unwatered, all summer long after offering up a beautiful display of large red flowers last winter.

Before the Rev. David Dennis ever packed his bags for college decades ago, he felt he was being called to serve the Lord.

There were "nudges" he couldn't ignore while studying to earn a degree in biology at Illinois State University.

FAIRBORN - New Knoxville advanced to its first-ever state volleyball title game after winning a grueling four-game match against Toledo Christian in the Division IV state semifinals on Thursday night at the Ervin J. Nutter Center on the campus of Wright State University. [More]

FAIRBORN - The last time New Knoxville went to state in volleyball was in 1989.

One year later, their current coach got her chance.

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Now we have The Rematch.

After meeting in week one - with a week-one meeting set for 2007 - and seeing the Redskins humble the Spartans by 28 points, the teams meet again with the loser out of the postseason.

Highlights: The Roughriders brushed off fumbling the ball three times - twice in the opening minutes of the game - to hold off Tippecanoe 21-14 at Ti