FORT RECOVERY - Growing up next to the railway has made a lifelong impact on Tom Zitter.

Zitter, president of Big K Mills, plans to lay roughly a mile of track around his rural Fort Recovery property for a locomotive he is restoring and five train cars he is recreating. [More]

CELINA - The city may have a general fund carryover of more than $3 million next year if expenditures and revenue collection continue at the current pace.

ST. MARYS - Longtime council president Dan Hoelscher wants to retire and be re-appointed to his council post so he can begin collecting public retirement funds. [More]

CELINA - Mercer County Commissioners on Thursday approved a specific weight restriction on a nearly 100-year-old bridge along Swamp Road.

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There won't be any secrets as to what Coldwater's football team will see when the Cavaliers face Covington on Saturday night in the Division V regional final at Welcome Stadium in Dayton.

It's no secret that the Midwest Athletic Conference has been blessed with some remarkable football coaches throughout the league's nearly 40-year existence.

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The Grand Lake Area was well-represented as the Associated Press All-Northwest district football teams were released Thursday evening.