CELINA - Visitors from Minamiawaji, Japan, Celina's sister city, traveled thousands of miles across an ocean to visit the city for a week this summer.

Now they want Celina officials to return the gesture.

ST. MARYS - A capital campaign is officially underway to raise funds for a new athletic complex near the middle/high school building.

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CELINA - An Osgood man suffered burns during an accident in a feed bin east of Montezuma on Wednesday afternoon.

Trevor Wynk, 24, Osgood, was injured as his father, Steven Wynk, 47, tried to help him get out of the feed bin the two were painting, Mercer County Sheriff's Capt. Martin Emerine said.

WAPAKONETA - Voters on Election Day will be sorted by last name rather than precinct at the polls on Nov. 8.

The Auglaize County Board of Elections approved on Wednesday the new directive from the Ohio Secretary of State Office. The directive is statewide, board director Michelle Wilcox said.

CELINA - The work involved in applying for state-mandated accreditation led the Mercer County-Celina City Board of Health on Wednesday to hire a temporary employee to work on special human-resources projects.

NEW BREMEN - School district personnel want to focus on four goals for the 2016-2017 school year.

Superintendent Ann Towns-end shared the points of emphasis at Wednesday's school board meeting.

CHICKASAW - Plans to construct a maintenance building at the proposed wastewater treatment plant have been approved, and work can begin soon on the estimated $198,000 project.

HUBER HEIGHTS - Last night of the tour, last night of the Rose Music Center's second concert season, erstwhile chart-toppers Blues Traveler and The Wallflowers, with support from G. Love and Special Sauce and Howie Day, delivered solid sets to a decent-sized Friday night crowd.

Ethan and Eli Wolf competed in several big games during their time in MAC country.

No games in the history of football can compare to the one in which they played last Saturday.

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Celina lost to Defiance 178-231 in Western Buckeye League boys' golf action on Wednesday.

Defiance's Trevor Rose was match medalist with a 43. Sammy Assaf and Jacob Black each shot a 44 and Jack Vanderhorst carded a 49.

Celina football fans who had to monitor their heart rates last year as their Bulldogs took several games down to the wire before collecting wins may need a checkup already this season.

With all local conference play now underway, we are starting to see a little bit of early sorting out in the computer points. If the season ended tod

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