CELINA - A police dispatcher recently laid off by city administrators has filed a union grievance against the city.

Serving the city since 2009, full-time dispatcher John Mangen's last official day of work was Wednesday, safety service director Tom Hitchcock told the newspaper.

A recent theft in Celina has opened the eyes of authorities and residents to a way a burglar can break into a garage.

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GRAND LAKE - The state on Wednesday closed a tube at the base of the West Bank spillway now that the lake's water level is at normal pool.

The tube was opened March 5 as part of the first of several pilot tests to develop a lake- level management protocol.

Prison sentences continue for a 27-year-old Mendon man.

Douglas Fonner, 5922 Tama Road, received 12 months in prison on each of nine felony counts Wednesday in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court.

GRAND LAKE - Grand Lake's new $668,000 dredge, Brutus, arrived Wednesday in several pieces on five trailers.

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Farmers in parts of Mercer and Auglaize counties and all of Van Wert County can apply for $2 million in federal funds to help combat toxic blue-green algae blooms that have plagued western Lake Erie for years, killing fish and hurting water recreation.

CELINA - After a few weeks of delay, work on the Beaver Creek waterline replacement project officially began Tuesday.

Travel restrictions have been placed on Schunck Road from U.S. 127 to Murlin Avenue.

As the school bus rumbled into its designated entrance at St. John Arena, Fort Recovery's head boys' basketball coach Al Souder intently gazed out the window toward the mammoth facility situated on the east bank of the Olentangy River.