The city of Celina may be in serious financial trouble as council this week learned about staggering utility deficits and a possible citation from the Ohio auditor's office.
Rockford village is officially in line for federal stimulus money, which will save the village more than $2.2 million for its new water treatment plant. All that remains to get the money is the paperwork.
Incumbent Celina city councilman Myron Buxton easily defeated challenger Matthew Jeffries at Tuesday's Republican primary election by taking over 70 percent of the vote.
All local levies in Mercer and Auglaize counties passed at the polls Tuesday.
Across the state, the election featured 128 school taxes on the ballots, and results were mixed, according to the Associated Press this morning. School superintendents where levies went down blamed the poor economy. [More]
A half million dollar project to upgrade a portion of Carthagena Road this summer was temporarily foiled after the Mercer County Engineer's office discovered a costly obstacle: electric poles. [More]
MINSTER - There will be football practice in the park - Seventh Street park that is - with village councilors entering into a renewable five-year agreement with the Minster Local Schools board of education Tuesday night.
Eight people - seven of them youths ages 16 and under - were injured in a three-vehicle crash Tuesday night at the intersection of state Route 716 and Overman Road, south of Maria Stein. [More]
FORT RECOVERY - The village will pay $43,968 to replace its obsolete computer software.
Village councilors on Monday approved the expenditure to get software from CMI for finance, budget, utilities, taxes and payroll, Village Administrator Randy Diller said.
FORT RECOVERY - The decision to make homeowners pay for sidewalks and curbs that are torn up during an upcoming sewer separation and street reconstruction project was not made by Village Administrator Randy Diller.
FORT RECOVERY - The Center for Neurological Development celebrated special memories and honored clients as well as supporters during a 25th anniversary celebration Monday night at the Fort Recovery American Legion Hall.
ST. MARYS - Otterbein St. Marys Retirement Community's proposed expansion would put some residents in the water. The new Life Enrichment Center will include a four-lane pool for swimming, water exercise, warm-water therapy and recreation.
ST. HENRY - The Midwest Athletic Conference baseball race got a lot tighter thanks to an impressive performance by John Dorner's St. Henry Redskins on Tuesday. [More]
MARIA STEIN - Marion Local got three runs in the third and fifth innings and Monte Imwalle fired six innings of two-hit baseball to lead the Flyers to a 6-3 win over Fort Recovery in Midwest Athletic Conference action at the Flyer Athletic Complex on Tuesday.
The Celina Bulldogs took advantage of limited offensive opportunities on Tuesday afternoon to defeat the Bath Wildcats 10-6 in Western Buckeye League play at Montgomery Field at Eastview Park.
