CELINA - Local officials are contacting municipal and township leaders to determine which areas have the highest risk of natural hazards as they plan to head off disasters.
MVP Dairy LLC, a partnership of VanTilburg Farms of Celina and McCarty Dairy LLC of Colby, Kansas, wants to build a 4,500-head dairy in northern Mercer County.
FORT RECOVERY - Village council members on Monday passed a motion to extend tax incentive agreements with J&M Manufacturing for another year.
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Celina schools; Four assistant football coaches also call it quits
CELINA - School board members on Monday unanimously accepted the resignations of head football coach Trent Temple and assistant coaches Brent Baucher, Steve Bader, Brennen Bader and Tyler Foulkes.
CELINA - Celina police are investigating the death of a Celina man who was found dead in his vehicle Sunday night.
Police chief Tom Wale told the
CELINA - School district officials have been notified by the Mercer County Health District that a middle school teacher has a confirmed case of mumps.
On Monday, superintendent Ken Schmiesing on Monday said a middle school teacher had recently been diagnosed.
MINSTER - School board members on Monday heard an update on the Minster Scholarship Program.
Ted Boeckman, past scholarship committee president, sa
From staff reports
CENTER TOWNSHIP - Mercer County Engineer Jim Wiechart plans to close Hayes Road between state Route 197 and Oregon Road for a
College Notes
Playing in the Sweet 16 is an aspiration of every college basketball player in America.
Fort Recovery's Elijah Kahlig and Celina's Caleb Hoyng recently got to experience it - Kahlig with Findlay and Hoyng with Marietta.
ST. MARYS - St. Marys graduate Nikki Miars returned to her alma mater to bring the girls basketball program to the next level.
The former All-Ohioan player accomplished a lot over the last three years, but her time as Roughriders coach has officially come to an end.
SWCDs play vital role in helping farmers conserve soil, water for next generation
Nikki Hawk, Mercer County Soil and Water Conservation District administrator/education specialist, uses an apple to illustrate the finite resource that is topsoil, the precious eight- to 10-inch layer of dirt upon which food is grown.
CELINA - After a so-so 2016 spring season, Celina bounced back to advance to the ACME baseball state championship game last summer.
Bulldogs coach Andy Mikesell hopes that the summer run, along with plenty of experience returning, will help the Bulldogs bounce back from a 12-11 (4-5 WBL) spring.
CELINA - Celina softball coach Nicole Driggs will have to replace a lot of talent this season.
Graduation last May took Celina's starting battery a
COLDWATER - Rebuilding or re-tooling is a coach's role every season.
But for Coldwater baseball coach Brian Harlamert, his squad will be drastically different from last year's 25-4 squad that lost in the district finals.
COLDWATER - Last season's 8-19 campaign was a learning one for the Coldwater softball team.
After having lost just one senior to graduation, coach Katie Berno has an experienced but still young squad that looks to play better this season.
FORT RECOVERY - Jerry Kaup doesn't have a bare cupboard for his Fort Recovery baseball team this season, but he will have to replace some key ingredients from a program that went to the state semifinals the past two seasons.
FORT RECOVERY - Tammy Post knows the recent history of the Fort Recovery softball program hasn't been good.
The Indians are winless in the MAC over the last five seasons and have won only nine games during that span.
MARIA STEIN - Casey Witt enters his second year as Marion Local baseball coach convinced his team can make a nice little run this season.
In order for that to happen, though, the Flyers will need to produce more runs than they did in 2016.
MARIA STEIN - It's the dream of any first-year coach to walk into a good situation.
Jerry Moeller is living that dream in his first season as head coach at Marion Local, inheriting a team from Julie Overman that lost only one starter from last season.
MINSTER - Mike Wiss' record and accolades at Minster speak for themselves.
The Wildcats have been consistently good during Wiss' 22-year tenure in the always strong Midwest Athletic Conference.
MINSTER - Robb Hemmelgarn has been around the current group of Minster players for a long time, having coached them when they were in grade school al
NEW BREMEN - With just four returning lettermen, second-year New Bremen baseball coach Chad Wells will be looking to re-stock the Cardinal cupboard this spring.
NEW BREMEN - With eight senior returning letterwinners, New Bremen hopes to launch a successful defense of its Midwest Athletic Conference softball title in 2017.
ROCKFORD - Parkway turned a decent 12-10 spring into a great summer as the ACME baseball team advanced to the state tournament.
The summer run has Parkway coach Luke Clouse feeling good as his team gets under way.
ROCKFORD - Parkway softball players weren't happy with the abrupt end to their 17-4 season in the district semifinals.
Veteran coach Mark Esselstein will look for an experienced team to make sure this year ends with much better results.
ST. HENRY - St. Henry is one of the most successful baseball programs in Midwest Athletic Conference history.
The success is expected to continue this spring.
ST. HENRY - The St. Henry softball team has been right around the .500 mark and in the middle of the pack in the MAC over the last couple of seasons.
Coach Kylie Huelsman is optimistic that this is the year the Redskins turn the corner.
ST. MARYS - After winning the Western Buckeye League title in 2015, the St. Marys baseball team finished fifth last spring with a 4-5 league mark and 11-11 overall.
ST. MARYS - After nearly three decades, a new face will be filling out the lineups in the Memorial High School softball dugout.
Former Roughrider Kendra Solomon has taken over for 20-year-plus veteran Sue Grothause.
CELINA - After a strong 2016 season, the Celina track and field program brings back plenty of veteran talent for the 2017 campaign.
GIRLS
"We have
COLDWATER - While the numbers are steady to slightly down for the Coldwater track and field program, the talent level is solid throughout.
"Our jun
FORT RECOVERY - People in the area have probably heard of Hank Bevington, the track standout.
The 2011 graduate shined at Parkway before going on to Heidelberg University, where he spent four seasons on the indoor and outdoor track and field teams.
MARIA STEIN - Doug Jutte and Dan Thobe are no strangers to supporters of Marion Local athletics.
They've been coaching at Marion Local in some capacity for quite some time, and now the duo assumes the role of co-head track and field coaches for the track and field team.
MINSTER - In the fall, Minster won the Division III girls cross country state title to become the first program with 10 titles in Ohio history. Oh, and the Wildcat volleyball team claimed a Division IV district runner-up trophy.
NEW BREMEN - With key returning letterwinners, both the New Bremen girls and boys track teams are looking for continued improvement in 2017.
Highly decorated veteran coach Sue Burnell begins her 42nd season with the Cardinal girls.
ROCKFORD - The Parkway track and field team will look to use their experience to move up in the MAC standings.
BOYS
Nine letterwinners are among the 26 boys who turned out this season.
ST. HENRY - Dan Hemmelgarn returns for his third season as St. Henry head coach and 15th overall with the program, and his roster is as solid as ever
ST. MARYS - With balance and good team chemistry, St. Marys track coach Rob Cisco has high expectations for both the Roughrider boys' and girls' teams this spring.
CELINA - Toma Hainline's expectations are high for the Celina boys tennis team this season.
The Bulldogs finished sixth in the WBL last season but return the defending league champions in second doubles and all three singles players.
ST. MARYS - After two years as an assistant, Seth Hertenstein has taken over for longtime St. Marys tennis coach Brice Brenneman.
Hertenstein has four returning lettermen from a squad that finished fifth in the Western Buckeye League last year with a 5-4 record in dual matches and 11-4 overall.
