GRAND LAKE - The algae has emerged and so have the warning signs along Grand Lake.

The state Thursday placed the first advisory of the season on the lake after tests earlier this week detected blue-green algae. [More]

Today's sunshine is a rare sight and its presence will do little to brighten area farmers' outlook for the growing season.

Ongoing rainy, cool weather continues to delay planting and poses a serious threat to corn and soybean crops locally and statewide. [More]

CELINA - Calls to stop using local schools as polling locations continued this week at the Mercer County Board of Elections regular meeting.

School superintendents from St. Henry, Fort Recovery and Celina last year started asking board members to relocate polls.

WAPAKONETA - Some unexpected costs have surfaced in the courthouse renovation project.

Garmann-Miller Architects, Minster, met with Auglaize County

CELINA - Mercer County officials are seeking input on a proposal to use more than $115,000 in state funds for projects in Rockford and Liberty Township.

CELINA - City council members on Monday will hear first reading of an ordinance allowing the city to purchase electricity from a natural gas-fired generation plant in Fremont.

FORT RECOVERY - The 86 members of the class of 2011 will graduate at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Fort Recovery High School's 123rd commencement will be held at the Fort Site Fieldhouse.

MINSTER - It will take some teaching, some getting used to from congregants and their priests. But one local pastor said it took 35 years to get into

COLDWATER - For the first time since 2007, the Midwest Athletic Conference will have a baseball team earn the Division IV district championship.

Parkway and Minster punched their tickets to tonight's championship game after picking up semifinal wins on Thursday at Veterans Field in Coldwater.

MINSTER - The Minster boys took a seemingly insurmountable lead in their portion of the Division III district track meet at Minster on Thursday. Mi

When the spring sports campaign inched closer and closer to the finish line 50 years ago, the best of the best still remained on the area baseball scene in 1961, and it was the Coldwater Cavaliers making the most noise locally.

The Celina doubles team of Tyler Everman and Bryan Robbins kept their seasons alive with two wins on the first day of the Division II district tennis tournament at Bowling Green State University.