DURBIN - For 110 years folks have gathered on Labor Day at John Rhodes' grove for bean soup cooked in huge caldrons on wood fires all day long. This year was no different.

Fire heavily damaged the garage of a Celina home while the owners were away for the holiday weekend sparking an investigation into the cause.

Celina firefighters responded to the Robert Maddy home at 104 Fochs St. at 1:44 p.m. Monday after a passer-by spotted smoke and flames. [More]

FORT RECOVERY - Forty-four years of service and probably two million cookies later, Fort Recovery High School's 78-year-old cook and summer janitor Helen has no intention of quitting anytime.

A seven-month leadership program for persons interested in learning more about the agriculture community in the Grand Lake area will be held starting this fall.

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Marion Local captured its fifth straight Mercer Health Volleyball Invitational on Saturday, not dropping a game in three matches.

CANAL WINCHESTER - The Marion Local Flyers made a long bus trip to the east side of Columbus on Saturday night to take on the Harvest Prep Warriors, and though they didn't earn any style points, they took the win and headed back home.

NEW BREMEN - The Olentangy Orange Pioneers took advantage of sloppy play by the New Bremen Cardinals to post a 38-20 win Saturday night at Cardinal Stadium,

Orange, in their first year of varsity, moves to 2-0 while New Bremen falls to 1-1. [More]

NEW BREMEN - Saturday evening before the New Bremen-Olentangy Orange football game, the New Bremen Local Schools, and in particular the Cardinal Booster Club, broke ground for the Cardinal Athletic Complex.

ROSSBURG - If Sunday night's Baltes Classic yields any indication, competitors for the 42nd annual World 100 this weekend at Eldora Speedway should be worried about Batesville, Ark., veteran Billy Moyer. [More]