WAPAKONETA - Nearly one in every 10 people in Mercer and Auglaize counties is living in poverty, a statistic The Lima Allen Council on Community Affairs wants to change if it becomes the area's community action agency.

Local officials are adding a scavenger trash hunt to Saturday's cleanup day on Grand Lake to boost participation in the annual event.

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COLDWATER - Mercer County Community Hospital in Coldwater continues to gain recognition from national organizations.

At Wednesday night's meeting,

One of the first sporting events I ever covered for The Daily Standard was a volleyball match in Houston in August of 2001.

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Gem (n.) - a person or thing considered to be outstandingly good or special in some respect.

Insert the word "pitching" in front of that, and it sums up the reoccurring narrative of last week.

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South Adams scored seven runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to break a 2-2 tie en route to beating Parkway 9-6 in an interstate battle of border neighbors in Berne, Ind.

Michalea Wenning, a 2014 Celina graduate, recently put forth her best performance for the University of Colorado in the Heptathlon at one of the most

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. - "You are the words, I am the tune, play me," Neil Diamond crooned sweetly to a colossal crowd last Friday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse as part of his 2015 world tour.