Booing at a referee's bad call or chanting "airball" will no longer be allowed at some area high school basketball games.
School officials in the Western Buckeye League (WBL) will be enforcing a new policy this year that prevents students from participating in any derogatory or obscene chants, according to William Hannah, the Ottawa-Glandorf High School principal and WBL chairman of the sportsmanship policy. [More]
DELPHOS - Most coaches say that the most improvement that a team makes during the season comes from the first game of the season to the second contest.
Tuesday night the St. Henry Redskins took a giant leap forward rebounding from the season-opening loss on Saturday night at Wapakoneta to dismantle the St. John's Blue Jays, 68-39, in the Midwest Athletic Conference opener for both teams at Robert A. Arnzen Gymnasium. [More]
MINSTER - Neatly spaced rows of snow shovels and ice scrapers are ignored as shoppers roam the aisles at the Western Ohio True Value store along state Route 66.
Mercer County commissioners took steps Tuesday toward creating a new sanitary sewer system to serve residents and adjacent properties in a small Dublin Township subdivision.
Students at Celina and St. Marys city schools are cooperating with the Western Buckeye League's new sportsmanship policy that bans certain cheers, according to the athletic directors at each school.
Mercer County Common Pleas Court Judge Jeffrey Ingraham sought approval on Tuesday for a budget increase to raise the pay of his probation staff close to those in similar jobs elsewhere.
ST. MARYS - Boiler repairs are proceeding faster than expected on the city's boiler 6, which may permit the electric department to get more done for the same money.
COLDWATER - Despite rallying from a double-digit deficit in the fourth quarter to force overtime, Coldwater's inability to handle Elida's pressure defense ended up costing the Cavaliers in the end.
