GRAND LAKE - It's back.

Algae.

Motorists drove slowly along West Bank Road on Monday to look at the thick green coating on the lake's water and shoreline. [More]

CELINA - Council members Monday night passed first reading of a resolution to place an income tax increase levy on the November election ballot.

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ST. HENRY - School board members got a crash course in student suicide prevention Monday night.

St. Henry schools guidance counselor Greg Kulwicki

MARIA STEIN - Voters going to the polls in November will decide the fate of a five-year, 1.5-mill permanent improvement levy after action taken Monday night by Marion Local Schools board of education members.

MARIA STEIN - The Marion Local Schools board of education is considering the use of alternative energy sources - wind, solar or a combination of both - to stem the tide of rising utility costs at its buildings. [More]

ST. HENRY - Officials hope recent tests will provide answers to ongoing roof leakage that has plagued the middle/high school building since it was built about nine years ago.

ST. MARYS - Council members are looking in-house for a new videographer and may team up with the school on the equipment purchase.

Connie Schroer,

ST. HENRY - Parkway's Chris Brazle flirted with perfection before finishing with a two-hitter as the Panthers improve to 6-3 in ACME play with a 4-1 win over St. Henry on Monday night at the Wally Post Athletic Complex.

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Kevin Franchetti's RBI single in the top of the sixth gave Grand Lake its first Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League win of the season with a 4-3 triumph over the Lake Erie Monarchs at Adrian College in Michigan on Monday night.

The fourth-generation Conradi farm in Auglaize County was recognized recently by the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) as an Ohio Century Farm.

The honor is given to farms held in the same family for 100 years or more.

The Grand Lake/Wabash River Watershed is in line to get $1.5 million in federal funds for conservation efforts. Landowners are now being encouraged to apply for a share of the money.