MINSTER - Farmland lays to the north, south, east and west of this Auglaize County community. However, none of it is for sale at this point.

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OSGOOD - Blue signs now pinpoint designated water fill sites - primarily farm and residential ponds - for firefighters in three counties.

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WAPAKONETA - Educating everyone takes everyone, said Jim Mahoney, executive director of Battelle for Kids in Columbus, at the recent Mercer/ Auglaize school boards annual dinner meeting. [More]

ST. MARYS - Library board of trustees approved the 2007 appropriations budget at Wednesday's regular meeting.

The grand total of $639,280 includes a $20,000 cushion for non-budgeted items that may arise during the year such as various repairs, staff conferences, etc.

Who doesn't like leafing through those seed and garden catalogs that arrive in the mail in January and February?

I have a stack of those catalogs be-side my easy chair at home, and they are my salvation in February when winter just becomes too much to bear.

NEW BREMEN - When Fort Recovery head coach Jeff Roessner came to the realization that his team would be playing without its leading scorer for the first time in four years, he knew that he needed someone else on the team to step up. [More]

MARIA STEIN - Both Nann Stechschulte and Treva Fortkamp agreed, Thursday's Midwest Athletic Conference meeting was a typical Minster-Marion Local matchup.

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St. John's captured its sixth Midwest Athletic Conference girls basketball title, and first in five years, with a 64-45 win over Coldwater at Arnzen Gymnasium in Delphos.

A 19-year-old Celina woman is on a mission to serve God.

Kelsey Smith, a 2006 Celina High School graduate, is a member of Shining Through, a Bluffton University music ministry that travels to churches in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and beyond.