A struggling economy and looming changes in collective bargaining rules triggered quick contract negotiations this spring between area teachers and school boards. [More]

CELINA - Parking on Main Street largely will consist of 30-degree angled spots once the reconstruction project is completed this summer.

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A fourth person has been arrested in connection with a pair of vehicle break-ins in Mercer County.

Christina Ryan, 33, of Pompano Beach, Fla., was

FORT RECOVERY - The 26 members of the high school varsity and junior varsity scholastic bowl teams will compete in a national academic championship in Washington, D.C., on June 3-5.

All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), golf carts and other types of four-wheeled vehicles that travel less than 20 mph cannot be driven on streets in incorporated areas unless a permitting ordinance is in place.

COLDWATER - The Minster Wildcats used an outstanding pitching performance from Adam Niemeyer and some late-inning offense to defeat the Parkway Panthers 5-0 and capture the Division IV district baseball title on Friday night at Veterans Field. [More]

LIMA - A Kurt Koester's two-out RBI single in the top of the seventh inning scored Chase Kessen to put St. Henry in front of Otsego, and then it was Kessen's glove that closed out the win for the Redskins.

BATH TOWNSHIP - The Midwest Athletic Conference had a pair of teams bow out of Friday's Division III Bath softball district tournament.

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The Celina girls' track team finished as the runner-up in the team standings at the Division II Shawnee district track meet on Friday.

WAPAKONETA - A pair of teams will be making their first-ever district finals appearances after knocking off a pair of Midwest Athletic Conference softball teams on Friday at Wapakoneta High School.