ST. HENRY - William Meyer witnessed unspeakable atrocities at the age many modern American children receive their first cellular phones.

He was 11 when Gestapo officers arrested him outside the clockmaker shop of his neighbor, Corrie ten Boom, a Jewish sympathizer. [More]

While the bad economy has been good for sales at stores featuring used inventory, the greater change has been in what shoppers are buying.

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CELINA - Some city council members are having second thoughts about allowing downtown businesses to put up sidewalk obstructions such as fences and advertising signs.

ST. MARYS - Water rates need to be raised as quickly as possible to offset funding deficits, city officials say.

City council members on Monday heard first reading of an emergency resolution that would raise water rates for St. Marys residents by 34 percent in two years.

MARIA STEIN - Treasurer Paul Gagel called the roll for the last time Monday night at the board of education meeting.

Gagel, who is retiring effecti

COLDWATER - Coldwater village council members on Monday approved legislation allowing the village to enter into an agreement with Miamisburg-based Solar Power and Light LLC to have solar panels installed near the wastewater treatment facility and village offices on Sycamore Street.

CELINA - With only one regular meeting scheduled for December, city council members on Monday night heard 20 pieces of legislation.

The centerpiece of the agenda was first reading of the 2013 budget.

ST. HENRY - Village council members on Monday heard the second of three readings to grant village employees an average 2 1/2 percent raise beginning in January.

A Celina man was sentenced recently in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court in connection with a drug-related incident.

Kyle E. Bourelle, 29, 632 Grove St., Celina, received a 9-month prison term after pleading guilty to abusing harmful intoxicants, a fifth-degree felony.

NEW BREMEN - The New Bremen girls' basketball team got out to a strong start and did not let up as the Cardinals defeated Botkins 39-26 on Monday night at Cardinal Gymnasium. [More]

CELINA - Having a whole new team this year has Wright State University-Lake Campus women's basketball head coach Nikki Mescher joking that she feels like Kentucky men's basketball head coach John Calipari.