GRAND LAKE - Ohio Governor-elect John Kasich has Grand Lake on his radar and local officials hope his interest, and last week's election of Republicans in state and federal offices will transfer into aid to restore the lake.
ST. MARYS - A weekend fire caused $250,000 in damage to a church storage building and left about 700 families in the area without clean water yet this morning.
MINSTER - More than 100 people came to Minster Middle School on Sunday night to listen as board of education president Kurt Forsthoefel laid out three plans under consideration to resolve the district's financial problems.
JACKSON CENTER - A Coldwater woman remains in critical condition and her husband in serious condition following a three-vehicle accident Oct. 29 on state Route 274 in Shelby County.
COLUMBUS - Listening to various coaches before the start of the Division III state girls cross country race, the consensus was that the championship would be decided between Liberty Center and West Liberty-Salem. [More]
FINDLAY - Five years ago, a group of junior high volleyball players got together at Parkway and began a dream of some day being the next group of Panthers to play in the state tournament.
COLUMBUS - The state cross country meet is a combination of team events as well as being an individual competition. Three local athletes had the opportunity to compete on their own without their teams on Saturday.
ANNA - One of the advantages of playing a team in the playoffs that beat you in the regular season is that a team can fix the mistakes from the first meeting.
COLUMBUS - Besides Minster's girls, two other local teams competed in the team events on Saturday at Scioto Downs. In a year when five of the six state champions from 2009 repeated, both the Coldwater girls and the St. Henry boys also turned in results similar to their 2009 finishes.
TIPP CITY - It's been said that all good things must come to an end, but on Saturday, a great thing came to a sad conclusion in the Division IV regional final at Tipp City Tippecanoe High School. [More]
