MINSTER - The Minster Area Life Squad needs a new medical director to oversee operations, village council members learned Tuesday.
Nicole Clune, a council member who serves on the safety committee, said current medical director Dr. Ken Fox will retire Oct. 1 at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys. [More]
FORT RECOVERY - School officials are researching whether to implement random drug testing for high school athletes beginning this fall.
Athletic director Kurt Rammel told school board members Tuesday night he has been reviewing similar policies at two other area schools. Marion Local has been testing athletes since 2005; New Bremen recently approved a policy that includes nearly all students being subjected to random testing. [More]
Fort Recovery tabbed a familar name to take over its boys basketball program.
Chris Guggenbiller, a 1999 graduate of Fort Recovery, was formally approved as head coach at the district's board of education meeting on Tuesday. Guggenbiller takes over for Brian Patch, who stepped down to take over the Fort Recovery girls basketball program. [More]
Helen Marie Huddlestun Robbins, 83, formerly of Celina, passed away at 7:50 a.m. May 20, 2014, in St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, Calif. [More]
CELINA - Threatening weather this past winter and new rules for closing county offices prompted the board of elections to review its policy on extending filing deadlines.
ROCKFORD - The preliminary 2015 village budget will mirror this year's, according to officials.
Council members on Tuesday gave first reading to an ordinance approving the estimated appropriations. Village clerk Lisa Kuhn set the general fund at $361,205, the same as 2014.
ST. MARYS - A harsh winter and unexpected repairs have left shortfalls in the city budget.
Finance committee members John Bubp and Bob Fitzgerald on Monday reviewed safety service director Greg Foxhoven's supplemental appropriation requests totaling about $140,000.
FORT RECOVERY - A funeral home owner concerned about the safety of people heading to the community pool and park wants a four-way stop sign installed near his business.
COLDWATER - Christa Heitkamp and April Goodwin wanted to start a business together and were looking for ideas. Heitkamp's husband steered them in the right direction.
CELINA - The Marion Local ACME team scored 10 runs through the first five innings and then held off Celina's seventh-inning charge to come away with a 10-8 win Tuesday night at Montgomery Field.
COLDWATER - Parkway forced Coldwater to come back twice but came out on the short end of a tight 5-4 game Tuesday night at Veterans Field in Memorial Park.
Grand Lake scored eight times in the top of the second inning and got back to the .500 mark on the season with a 10-5 win over the Hamilton Joes at Foundation Field in Hamilton.
St. Henry baseball coach John Dorner and recent graduate Jeff Paul represented the area at the 2014 Mizuno All-Star Baseball Series held at Bill Davis Stadium on the campus of The Ohio State University last weekend.
St. Marys resident Rob Smock earned a unique honor as he was inducted as part of the 1983 Wright State University men's basketball team into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame in May.
