CELINA - The West Bank Road reconstruction project will begin next Tuesday, city safety service director Tom Hitchcock told city council members Monday night.
COLDWATER - Village officials this weekend successfully bid more than a half million dollars for farmland they hope to swap to expand the town's industrial park.
CELINA - A Celina woman on Monday pleaded not guilty to having a vicious dog - an animal that allegedly attacked a neighbor and a police officer eight days ago.
$750,000 may be borrowed locally for new $1.2M well field
NEW BREMEN - Village council members on Monday night took initial action to borrow up to $750,000 to help pay for a new well field.
Councilors hear
CELINA - City council members on Monday decided not to pursue legislation to force some property owners to bury their overhead electric lines.
Instead, they will attempt to educate the public about the benefits of going underground.
ST. HENRY - Ohio Department of Transportation officials will be in St. Henry this week to review traffic on state Route 118, which follows Eastern Avenue.
NEPTUNE - United Equity Inc., an area cooperative, is expanding a grain elevator and feed mill it recently purchased in the village.
Branch manager
CELINA - Celina boys soccer coach Ryan Jenkins was a little concerned with the extra week the Bulldogs unexpectedly had before their season opener.
He didn't have much to worry about.
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Minster improved to 4-0 in Midwest Athletic Conference boys golf dual match play with a 161-189 win over Marion Local at Arrowhead on Monday.
Saturday was a big day for Cleveland sports, filled with highs and lows; the day started with the Cavaliers officially announcing the landmark deal f
CELINA - The hope that Celina cross country coach Dan Otten has for his program is that the pack will provide success.
Both the boys and girls have experience coming back, but Otten admits he doesn't have that runner who will bust out and take over a race.
COLDWATER - Both the Coldwater boys' and girls' cross country teams will have plenty of depth as they get ready to make a run at the MAC titles and beyond after finishing second in both boys and girls to Minster in 2013.
FORT RECOVERY - New Fort Recovery cross country coach Nick Kallas has a group of 17 girls returning and seven boys out for the team this season.
Last year, the girls finished fifth place at the MAC meet and seventh at the regional meet.
MARIA STEIN - The Marion Local high school cross country program features 40 runners this season.
The boys team has all its top runners back from last season, while the girls will look to fill the gaps left behind by the departure of five runners from last year's team.
MINSTER - For the past few years, the Minster Wildcats have been creeping their way back up to the top of the Midwest Athletic Conference boys cross
NEW BREMEN - Both the boys and girls cross country teams are looking to advance to the next level for the 2014 season.
After narrowly missing the state tournament last year, veteran coach Julie Ferguson is hoping to get the New Bremen boys to the final weekend of the season.
ROCKFORD - With an experienced group returning for both the boys and girls teams, Parkway cross country coach Ann Vian has high goals for her Panthers this season.
ST. HENRY - The St. Henry cross country programs are ready to pick up where they left off last year.
The boys' and girls' teams each have seven of
ST. MARYS - The St. Marys Roughrider boys' cross-country program ended last season in seventh place in the Western Buckeye League, and this season head coach Rob Cisco will look to return the program to the top half of the WBL standings with a roster dominated by underclassmen.
CELINA - Both Celina boys golf coach Keith VanDeventer and girls coach Kelsey Moorman have experience coming back this season.
VanDeventer, who re
COLDWATER - While Coldwater boys golf coach Doug Timmerman has some experience returning from last year's seventh-place MAC team, girls coach Bret Ayers will have a small group of four to work with.
FORT RECOVERY - Both the Fort Recovery boys and girls golf teams will have plenty of experience coming back this season.
Boys' coach Brad Evers has three returning golfers from last year's team that finished fifth place in the MAC tournament and tied for fourth overall.
MARIA STEIN - Marion Local girls golf coach John Bruns doesn't know what kind of scores to expect from his team this season. He doesn't know how many 'Ws' the Flyers will have in the win column. Bruns does know one thing, though: he loves the enthusiasm the players have shown thus far.
MINSTER - One year removed from breezing through the regular season of Midwest Athletic Conference play with a 9-0 record and then capturing the MAC
NEW BREMEN - With some early season success, both the New Bremen boys and girls golf teams are looking toward competitive campaigns on the local links this fall.
ROCKFORD - While both the boys' and girls' golf teams at Parkway have some experience coming back this season, differences remain.
Boys' coach Joe Falk lost his top two golfers from a year ago.
ST. HENRY - The key word entering the season for the St. Henry boys golf team is consistency.
That's what coach John Dorner is hoping his team can bring to the table throughout the year.
ST. MARYS - A season after finishing in fourth place in the Western Buckeye League golf tournament, St. Marys head coach Scott Ross harbors a lot of
CELINA - After a 9-6-3 campaign in 2013, Celina boys soccer coach Ryan Jenkins has a squad that has plenty of experience towards the front of the lineup, but he has to fine-tune his defense.
CELINA - Understandably, Calvin Freeman is more than a bit excited that girls soccer season is upon us.
After guiding Celina to a 14-3-4 record and a Division II regional runner-up finish last season, Freeman has under his charge nearly his entire 2013 roster returning.
COLDWATER - The 2014 girls soccer season has Scott Brinkman anticipating good things.
His Coldwater squad is coming off an 8-10-0 campaign, having won seven of the last nine matches.
ST. MARYS - For three consecutive years, the St. Marys boys' soccer team has been on the door step of the Western Buckeye League standings. In 2010,
ST. MARYS - Following a long and successful tenure as the girls' soccer coach in St. Marys, Paul Dingledine stepped down, opening the door for former boys' assistant coach Seth Hertenstein to grab control of the wheel for the 2014 campaign.
CELINA - Youthful would be the appropriate term to use for the Celina girls tennis team this season.
Veteran coach Jan Morrison has no seniors on the roster but three juniors. Only two players return from last season's third-place finish in the Western Buckeye League.
ST. MARYS - After placing third in the Western Buckeye League three seasons ago, the St. Marys' girls' tennis team has taken an unwanted slide in the wrong direction for the past couple of seasons.
