ROCKFORD - Three Parkway students went to Columbus, built their first robot together, and brought home a second-place trophy from the 2009 STEM Challenge, part of the National Robotics Challenge. [More]

Local emergency agencies have yet to comply with a three-year-old federal law ordering them to establish care plans for pets following disasters.

Their reason for stalling is simple: their budgets currently don't allow it.

A class of third-grade students at Fort Recovery Elementary learned where their food comes from Thursday morning.

They also were encouraged to join the high school FFA when they come of age.

Bids are being taken by the Mercer County commissioners for bridge materials needed for three upcoming projects.

All submitted bids will be opened at 1:30 p.m. March 10 at the commissioners' office at the Central Services Building in Celina.

FORT RECOVERY - Village residents Theodore and Alison Homan will not need to make changes to their property even though an addition on their home encroaches on Fort Recovery's right of way.

FORT RECOVERY - The village is again leasing 13 acres of its land beside the Fort Recovery sanitary lagoon but is extending the term of the lease.

ROCKFORD - St. Teresa Catholic Church in downtown Rockford is moving to an existing church building outside the village.

Church officials in Decemb [More]

ROCKFORD - The New Bremen Cardinals went to Rockford on Thursday and defeated the Parkway Panthers 59-33 in Midwest Athletic Conference play to win the school's first girls basketball title, one which they will share with the Delphos St. John's Blue Jays. [More]

FORT RECOVERY - In order to win close games against good competition, teams must capitalize on opportunities at the free-throw line.

Delphos St. Jo

COLDWATER - It's sometimes said that it's not how you start, it's how you finish, but that wasn't the case for Thursday's Midwest Athletic Conference finale between the Marion Local Flyers and the Coldwater Cavaliers.

Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

Coldwater's Angie Hosbach made some history on Thursday, as did the Celina tandem of Todd Hertel and Luke Bonvillian

MINSTER - Overcoming a sluggish first half, Minster took control in the third quarter, then held off St. Henry's fourth-quarter charge to end the regular season with a 41-36 win on Senior Night at Wildcat Gymnasium.