CELINA - Officials are pleased with the city's financial situation as they continue to trim $17.23 million in outstanding debt.
Celina officials this year paid $3.06 million in principal and interest on the aggregate debt load and are poised to pay $2.72 million in 2015. [
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MINSTER - The village beginning next year will pay an additional $21,400 in estimated fees to the city of St. Marys for handling income tax collections.
Village traffic study looking at section of U.S. 33
ROCKFORD - Police Chief Paul May hopes to slow traffic on Bridge Street (U.S. 33) from 50 mph to 35 mph on the northwest end of the village.
"I dou
CELINA - Health insurance costs will increase slightly next year for Mercer County employees.
Workers will continue to contribute the same percenta
Celina mayor, wife open new shop
CELINA - Mayor Jeff Hazel is crazy about coffee, excellent coffee.
Hazel and his wife, Patty, have been working since last year to bring that passion to life in the newly opened Hazelnut Coffee Co., at 318 S. Ash St.
Division VI State Football Championship Game
MINSTER - Football is a game of inches. Minster's run to the state title game has proven that.
A brief recap: the Wildcats won their first-round g
ROCKFORD - Parkway used hot shooting in the second quarter to pull away from Perry and pick up a 71-51 win in non-conference girls basketball action at Panther Gymnasium on Tuesday night. [
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Tuesday's Local Roundup
Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
Marion Local jumped out to a 15-0 lead after one quarter and never looked back in a 49-21 victory over Waynesfield-Goshen in girls basketball action at Waynesfield.
Division III-IV All-Ohio Football
A pair of local athletes earned All-Ohio honors as The Associated Press released its Divisions III and IV All-State teams on Tuesday night.
Celina defensive back Sean Kirk and St. Marys running back Isaac Fitzgerald each earned special mention honors.
Class of 2015 one of the most talented in years in boys basketball
Every few years, the area schools bring together a group of athletes out of one grade that have exceptional talent and ability.
The senior class fo
CELINA - The past three seasons have seen the Celina boys basketball team end its season on the court at Lima Senior.
After losing to eventual regional runner-up Bath in the Division II sectional final last season, the Bulldogs are loaded for bear this season.
CELINA - The Celina girls basketball had a learning curve in 2013-14, dropping to 5-19 and 3-6 in the Western Buckeye League.
The good news for th
COLDWATER - The waiting process is nothing new for Coldwater boys basketball coach Mike Bruns.
The Cavaliers' football playoff run has meant that Bruns did not have a full varsity team in camp until the end of the football season.
COLDWATER - After coaching most of the current Coldwater girls basketball team during their junior high days, Connie May will get a chance to coach the players on the high school level.
FORT RECOVERY - New Fort Recovery boys basketball coach Chris Guggenbiller can't wait to start the season.
The Fort alum takes over a team that went 15-7 last season and lost a chance at an MAC title in the final conference game of the season.
FORT RECOVERY - Brian Patch did not find a bare cupboard as he moved from the boys basketball office to the girls basketball office at Fort Recovery
MARIA STEIN - Different year but same drill for the Marion Local boys basketball team.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Flyer football team is making a deep postseason run, meaning some of the projected key players on the basketball team will join the team late.
MARIA STEIN - The Marion Local girls basketball team returns nine letterwinners from a team that won 18 games last season.
The Flyers did lose a F
MINSTER - With 21 years on Minster's sidelines in his rear-view mirror, Mike Lee is preparing for the 2014-15 boys' basketball campaign with a sense
MINSTER - As Minster head basketball coach Nann Stechschulte examines her girls' basketball lineup at this time each year, the veteran coach doesn't
NEW BREMEN - With 10 returning lettermen, including three starters, New Bremen is looking to be a factor in the Midwest Athletic Conference boys basketball race this winter.
NEW BREMEN - Eight. That is the challenging number facing New Bremen girls basketball coach Chris Burden.
Burden begins the 2014-15 season with just eight girls in his program - three juniors, two sophomores and three freshmen.
NEW KNOXVILLE - Sixth-year New Knoxville boys basketball coach Kort Fledderjohann is looking at a nucleus of five returning seniors as a building block for his 2014-15 Rangers.
NEW KNOXVILLE - Veteran coach Tim Hegemier begins his 10th season at the helm of the New Knoxville girls program without his franchise quarterback. That means sophomore Kenzie Schroer has some big shoes to fill.
ROCKFORD - Second-year Parkway boys basketball head coach Rick Hickman and staff have an optimistic outlook on the season ahead.
The Panthers, who
ROCKFORD - The Parkway girls basketball coaching staff underwent a bit of a makeover in the offseason.
Chris Weirrick steps in to fill the role of former head coach Lynn Hughes. Joining him on the sidelines will be varsity assistant Linda Hawk and JV coach Dave Souers.
ST. HENRY - Expectations are high for the St. Henry boys basketball team this season.
Just how far they will go, however, is up to the seniors.
ST. HENRY - The St. Henry girls basketball team played in a lot of close games last year but had trouble finishing.
Head coach Kurt Huelsman is hoping that will change this year.
ST. MARYS - With four of his five starters returning from the 2013-14 basketball campaign, St. Marys head coach Dan Hegemeier can't help but crack a
ST. MARYS - Following Kelly Fulmer's departure as the head coach of the St. Marys girls' basketball program during the offseason, St. Marys officials
