Mercer County commissioners gladly OK'd an agreement Tuesday with state officials to accept up to $665,000 in grant funds for roadwork in the county and the village of Coldwater.

ROCKFORD - The recently completed energy evaluation for the school district has resulted in a recommendation for a solar thermal system as opposed to the other possibility of wind power. [More]

The former owners of Ole Fort IGA in Fort Recovery and Logan Street IGA in Celina are scheduled to appear in Mercer County Common Pleas Court on May 27 to face charges alleging they wrote nearly $15,000 in checks that bounced. [More]

The extension of sewer service to the Maria Stein area - a topic of discussion and speculation for more than a decade - moved a step closer to reality Tuesday afternoon when the Mercer County Commissioners signed an agreement with the village of Chickasaw to provide such service.

MINSTER - Minster Athletic Boosters and officials from Minster Local Schools visited village councilors Tuesday night asking for the go-ahead to use a portion of Seventh Street parkland as a high school football practice field.

Grand Lake St. Marys State Park has been awarded a $12,075 marine patrol grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Watercraft.

A series of new zoning standards that would limit building additions and enforce timelines could go before Celina City Council in the next several weeks.

A local man is facing several charges stemming from the alleged theft of a car in Coldwater on Friday afternoon.

Pacheco Melendez, 25, 604 E. Walnu

Celina City Schools are once again on the short end of the stick for state funding.

In the last five months, state funding predictions for Celina schools have varied from drastic slashes to robust increases.

Have bags of grass clippings, piles of plant pots or a sad stack of dead plants?

There is now a place near Celina to dump these without paying a fee - and leave feeling good about going green.

Celina Manor, 1001 Myers Road, is in the midst of an interior renovation to shift from traditional nursing home to a more homelike setting and operation.

COLDWATER - Although the Midwest Athletic Conference softball is less than a week old, coach Jeff Kerr and his Coldwater softball team had their backs to the wall as they had lost their opening game to Parkway. [More]

COLDWATER - The wind blew out of Veterans Field for most of the game, and Coldwater used it to its advantage.

The Cavaliers belted either home runs

NEW BREMEN - Two key players that helped New Bremen to its first Midwest Athletic Conference girls basketball title will call two schools of the Ohio Athletic Conference their new homes after signing last Wednesday.