CELINA - After learning the city lacks a consistent policy for reviewing applications for nonprofit and for-profit events on its properties, council members directed administrators to draft a plan based on legislation from Shaker Heights.

CELINA - City officials on Monday night learned additional details about an incident last week that triggered fears and prompted Celina police officials to step up security at Celina High School.

Mercer County law enforcement personnel on Friday and Saturday responded to four reported drug overdoses, including one resulting in death.

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ST. MARYS - City administrators will try once again to obtain grant funding to build a pedestrian bridge over U.S. 33.

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NEW BREMEN - Village officials are turning their attention to the elementary school site after voters last week approved a pair of levies to build a new K-8 facility. [More]

MARIA STEIN - District treasurer Heather Cramer on Monday said renewing operating levies would likely be vital to district funding as she presented the Marion Local School District's five-year forecast.

WAPAKONETA - A 39-year-old St. Marys man on Monday was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony, stemming from the November armed robbery of a St. Marys tobacco store. [More]

ST. HENRY - Plans for the 2018 pool renovation project may include enhanced security measures.

Police Chief Bob Garman is looking into obtaining security cameras to mount on the bathhouse, village council members learned at Monday night's regular meeting.

ST. HENRY - St. Henry Local Schools District Treasurer Jennifer Bruns expressed concerns that declining school enrollment and state funding could impact the district's future budgets.

WAPAKONETA - Auglaize County law enforcement officers arrested five people including a Celina woman on Friday on various drug charges.

Sheriff Al Solomon said in a news release that the arrests were the result of a two-month investigation by the Grand Lake Drug Task Force.

COLDWATER - The village has once again been named a Tree City USA.

Mayor Joe Knapschaefer on Monday told village council members he and village administrator/engineer Eric Thomas had attended last week's awards presentation in Lakeside Chautauqua near Lake Erie.

MARIA STEIN - After both Fort Recovery and Marion Local scored two runs each in the first inning, it appeared that the teams' Division IV softball tournament opener would be a high-scoring affair. [More]

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Bryce Schmiesing's bases-loaded sacrifice fly scored Jon Niemeyer in the bottom of the fifth inning to give Minster coach Mike Wiss his 400th career win at his alma mater with a 2-1 victory over Bath on Monday night at Hanover Street Park.

COLDWATER - The Coldwater baseball team wasn't picked by many to win the Midwest Athletic Conference title this season.

They did it anyway.

The Cavaliers clinched at least a share of the championship on Monday night with a 7-2 victory over Marion Local at Veterans Field.

ST. MARYS - The Trine University men's track and field program has earned the reputation as one of the most successful in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

ROCKFORD - Nothing matches the bond between mother and child.

New mother Kinzie Henkle realized that when she gave birth to her son, Breckyn, who is now 9 months old. Her life has not been the same, and she wouldn't have it any other way, Henkle said.