FORT RECOVERY - The entire sophomore class passed the writing section of the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) this school year, according to high school Principal Dave Warvel.
"I'm very pleased," Warvel told board members during the regular school board meeting Tuesday evening. "If you look at the numbers, they speak for themselves."
All high school students must pass the OGT in order to graduate, Warvel said. [More]
Beginning this weekend, the Mercer County Fairgrounds will become GOBAville. The expected residency is 3,000 high energy people with nothing to do for the next week but bike around the area.
The Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure (GOBA) begins and ends in Celina for the third time in its 19-year history. Bicyclists will take off Sunday for a 300-mile trek that makes a loop from Celina to Van Wert, Wapakoneta, Troy, Versailles and back to Celina. [More]
Camp instructor not upset when local students fly planes in summer class
While other Camp Inquire students were learning difficult subjects like architecture and violin playing, students in teacher Brian Happy's room were creating paper airplanes.
NEW BREMEN - With new wooden gates installed at Lock One and the restoration project nearing completion, village councilors turned their attention Tuesday night to landscaping around the Miami and Erie Canal.
Celina took the lead in the third inning and added an insurance run in the fourth to double up Bellefontaine, 4-2, at Montgomery Field on Tuesday in ACME play.
