ST. HENRY - Special education costs continually have been increasing in the school district, as they now account for one-ninth of the school's $9 million annual budget, according to Treasurer Glenn Miller.
Meat was taken as evidence in Mercer County
The CALL Ministries food pantry in Celina recently received a donation of several pounds of deer meat taken as evidence in an illegal hunting case.
A mobile communications truck and a team of Mercer County Sheriff's Office personnel are currently assisting with efforts in flood-stricken Putnam County.
Boulder on school lawn expected to bear many messages throughout the years
School spirit solid as a rock could describe the new boulder on the front lawn at Celina High School. The rock has been dubbed the Spirit Rock and is expected to serve as a canvas for various messages throughout the years.
ST. MARYS - Not only did Arts Place recently move uptown, but this week the arts cooperative received a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.
"It's a two-year guaranteed grant, which means we'll get about $17,000 this year and next year," said Heidi Steinke Meade, Arts Place director.
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The Van Wert boys golf team won a trimatch against Coldwater and Parkway with a low score of 153.
Coldwater was second with a round of 158 while Parkway followed with a 173.
An offseason of hard work helped the Celina football team look better across the board during the early preseason.
However, injuries hit the leader
COLDWATER - Coming off the 2005 state championship run, the Coldwater Cavaliers went 10-0 during the regular season and won a third straight Midwest Athletic Conference title.
Interest in football is back at Fort Recovery.
Third-year coach Brent Niekamp, who did a lot of campaigning over the off season, has 54 players out for the program this year, one of the largest teams in the history of the Indians' football program.
The Marion Local Flyers brought home their third football state championship last year, but now that the trophy is on display at the school they've got their minds focused on 2007.
Minster second-year football coach Eric Belcher had to like how his team played in the latter half of the 2006 season.
The Wildcats were 4-6 last year and did have an outside shot at the playoffs going into Week 10 before losing to Anna.
To say that things will be different around the New Bremen football team this fall, is like saying the weather this summer was just a tad bit warm and dry.
The 2-8 record Parkway had last season doesn't tell the whole story.
In the latter half of the season, the Panthers, playing a number of young players, picked up the pace and began to become more competitive as the season went along.
For the sixth time since 1990, the St. Henry football program needs to regroup after a state championship season and a heavy toll taken by graduation in the spring.
With the announcement by the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) of the new divisional and regional alignments for the 2007 and 2008 football seasons, let's see how that affects the Grand Lake area football scene before the season officially gets underway starting on Friday.
The St. Marys football team has made the postseason in six of the past seven years and the Roughriders look primed to make the playoffs once again behind a veteran team that returns 12 starters.
Versailles football coach Jason Schondelmeyer has plenty of reasons to be positive going into his second season.
After a 5-5 campaign last year and
After three years as the freshmen volleyball coach at Celina, Carolyn Dammeyer now will rejoin the varsity head coaching spotlight for the first time since 1995.
COLDWATER - After a 17-9 season that saw the team make the regionals for the first time since 1999, Coldwater volleyball coach Mandy Diller will have to fill some very significant spots in the rotation for the success to continue this year.
Fort Recovery volleyball coach Diana Rammel will have some rebuilding to do this season.
The Indians lost six seniors from last year's state-ranked
Marion Local volleyball coach Amy Steininger enters her fifth season at the helm of the Flyers with experience aplenty up and down her roster.
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With two setters, their top outside hitter, and a pair of three-year, back-row specialists lost to graduation last spring, most fans would understand if Minster head volleyball coach Jennifer Craft suffered from sleepless nights.
Rosters are just chuck full of information. Some of it can be of use, such as size of players, their class, etc.
Rosters also can be very deceiving.
After an 11-12 season that saw Parkway lose its sectional opener, the Panthers will look to build upon the positives of last season in an attempt to get back to elite status in the Midwest Athletic Conference.
At the conclusion of last volleyball season, something was amiss in the Midwest Athletic Conference.
For the first time since 1992, the St. Henry Redskins didn't win or hold a share of the league title in going 15-10.
With a little size sprinkled in with an always tough defense, the St. Marys volleyball is looking to make a run up the standings in the Western Buckeye League this year.
Tigers seem primed for special 2007 campaign
Versailles volleyball coach Jeremy Riley is guaranteed one item when his Tigers take to the court to start the season, he may have the tallest hitting line in the Midwest Athletic Conference.
