CELINA - Jefferson Township Trustees have cut off power to four emergency alert (tornado) sirens in order to reduce expenses.
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A Lewisville man, who struck and critically injured an emergency response volunteer, faces additional charges in the wake of a second grand jury indictment.
CELINA - A local agency that provides transportation to the needy recently was awarded more than $225,000 in grant funding.
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WAPAKONETA - Auglaize County Commissioners announced this week they hired a Cridersville-area man for county administrator after two other candidates turned down the job.
ST. MARYS - A 17-year-old St. Marys boy remained in stable condition this morning at a Lima hospital after losing control of a car Saturday afternoon on Greenville Road.
ROCKFORD - Chilly shooting and inopportune turnovers hampered Parkway on Tuesday night as the Panthers drop to 0-2 on the season following a 62-43 loss to Wayne Trace in nonconference action at Panther Gymnasium. It's the first win of the season in three tries for Wayne Trace.
MARIA STEIN - A year ago, Marion Local's Justin Rutschilling was primarily a junior varsity player who got his chances for varsity action on Friday nights when the Flyers were well in front of their opponents.
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The Celina swimming teams opened their season by sweeping Van Wert on Tuesday evening at the Celina YMCA.
Celina's girls coasted to a convincing 123-63 win while the Bulldogs' boys earned a 98-86 triumph over the Cougars.
The Celina boys' basketball team relied on depth and senior leadership a year ago to capture their first outright Western Buckeye League championship since 1998-99.
The Celina girls' basketball team regularly used 12 players each game a season ago, but graduation and some unexpected departures have the Bulldogs looking at a seven-girl rotation for this year.
COLDWATER - As has been the case the past several seasons, the boys' basketball season at Coldwater is currently on standby.
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COLDWATER - The return of five seniors that played significant time last season coupled with some experienced underclassmen, Coldwater's girls basketball coach Nick Fisher is very excited about the season.
FORT RECOVERY - After missing the district tournament for the first time since 2007, the Fort Recovery boys' basketball team will have a young but experienced group coming back from last year's 13-9 campaign.
FORT RECOVERY - After a spectacular run to the state tournament last season, the Fort Recovery Indians' girls basketball team will look to keep up their winning ways this year.
MARIA STEIN - The Marion Local Flyers will begin the boys' basketball season with a new coach but at least initially, he'll be dealing with an old issue.
MARIA STEIN - The Marion Local Flyers return a solid core of experience from last year's 13-9 squad and Treva Fortkamp has high hopes for a strong season in her 14th campaign as head coach.
MINSTER - For the second season, Minster's head basketball coach Mike Lee faces the bittersweet task of pushing the start of any full-squad basketball practice back a couple of weeks because of the success of the Wildcats' football team.
MINSTER - With the graduation of six talented seniors, including a pair of four-year starters, the only thing certain in the Minster girls' basketball program this year is that there will be a lot of fresh faces as they look to defend their Midwest Athletic Conference championship.
NEW BREMEN - The New Bremen Cardinals' boys basketball team will be under new management this season as Adam Daugherty was hired in May to became the 19th head coach in school history.
NEW BREMEN - It has been a struggle for New Bremen's girls basketball program since setting the school record for wins in the 2008-09 season.
Since winning 21 games and capturing the Midwest Athletic Conference championship, the Cardinals have amassed a record of 10-31 the last two years.
NEW KNOXVILLE - Youth will be served on the New Knoxville boys' basketball team this season.
Kort Fledderjohann's squad has just two seniors coming back from last year's 18-4 Midwest Athletic Conference championship season. The Rangers' varsity roster includes three sophomores and two freshmen.
NEW KNOXVILLE - Veteran New Knoxville girls' basketball coach Tim Hegemier will have a strong experienced core of players back for an attempt to repeat last year's 17-6 season that ended in the district finals.
ROCKFORD - It was a struggle last season for Parkway's boys basketball team and the Panthers are looking for Will Snyder to turn around a program that went winless in the Midwest Athletic Conference for the first time in nine years.
ROCKFORD - The Parkway girls' basketball team struggled through a 3-18 campaign a year ago, but head coach Jeff Kallas is hoping that an experienced roster will guide the Panthers to better results this season.
ST. HENRY - Eric Rosenbeck and the St. Henry boys' basketball team is expecting a successful 2011-12 season with the return of four starters from last year's team that finished the season 11-10.
ST. HENRY - The St. Henry girls' basketball took their share of lumps before finishing the year 8-14 overall and 3-5 in the Midwest Athletic Conference.
Dan Hegemier has taken a one-win St. Marys' boys basketball program to 10 wins in two years and the significant improvements should continue for the Roughriders this season.
The St. Marys girls' basketball team scored 1,057 points en route to a share of the Western Buckeye League championship a year ago.
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