Although sales tax revenue is climbing, the fear of vanishing state funds later this year prompted Mercer County officials to make cuts to the 2011 budget.
Commissioners this week appropriated $9.3 million to the general fund, which represents 1.41 percent drop or $133,000 less than last year. The decrease is slim compared to 2010 when nearly $1 million (9.6 percent) was chopped from the previous year's budget. [More]
When Kyle Bornhorst laced up her basketball shoes for the first time in the mid-1970s at Minster High School, the sport with which she was about to set sail was a relatively new concept.
Within a few years however, she established herself as one of the original hardwood greats in the deep pages of the Midwest Athletic Conference catalog of basketball royalty. [More]
Former Coldwater resident, Letha L. "Bobbie" Huelsman, 86, Wapakoneta, died at 2:30 a.m. Jan. 19, 2011, at the Golden Living Center in St. Marys. [More]
ROCKFORD - A 21-year-old Rockford man accused of robbing another man at a party last summer wants to withdrawal his previous guilty plea and obtain a new lawyer.
The Celina boys basketball team opened the Western Buckeye League schedule with a loss nearly five weeks ago, but the Bulldogs can erase the disappointing memory of that loss on Friday night.
Three new members will be enshrined into the Fort Recovery High School Athletic Hall of Fame between the boys' jayvee and varsity games on Saturday night when Franklin-Monroe visits Fort Site Fieldhouse.
