NEW BREMEN - A hydroponic greenhouse company from Canada is planting new roots in Wapakoneta with a $250 million facility.

Golden Fresh Farms, a sprawling site along U.S. 33 at the I-75 exit, will start growing tomatoes in January for harvest in March. [More]

CELINA - Brian and Kelly Anderson have finalized the adoption of 2-year-old Maddy after a monthslong dispute with Allen County Children Services that went all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court. [More]

ST. MARYS - The city's 12 firefighter-paramedics and captain-paramedics likely will receive 2 percent pay raises each year for the next three years.

ST HENRY - The village has purchased a 66-acre lot west of town to develop a well field for the village.

The purchase was announced during Monday's

COLDWATER - Several trees in Coldwater Memorial Park must be cut down, according to a review done by an Ohio Department of Natural Resources specialist.

NEW BREMEN - A new era is set to begin for the New Bremen German Township Fire Department, council members learned Monday night.

Bob Kuck, who had served the department for 36 years, including 22 as chief, retired Nov. 30.

MINSTER - The district's choir program is poised to grow in the coming years.

Choir director Abby Brigadoi shared her plan for the program that in

ST. HENRY - School board members learned about a new tool educators use to help students expand vocabularies and use complete sentences when writing.

A year ago, Brody Hoying was recovering from surgery and he and his Eastern Michigan football teammates were preparing to spend the holidays with family.