CELINA - Recent heavy rains have temporarily stopped work on the multimillion-dollar Mud Pike improvement project.

But the project should resume shortly, said Mercer County operations manager Brad Laffin.

ST. MARYS - Board of education members on Wednesday unanimously approved a proposal to expand the middle/high school parking lot.

The project, whic

NEW BREMEN - New Bremen High School is ranked in the top 10 percent of schools in the state and nation.

"It's a credit to the job we do here," principal Brian Pohl said as he informed board members at their meeting on Wednesday. [More]

CELINA - Health officials at their Wednesday meeting learned that the county has had 24 reported outbreaks so far this year of diseases such as mumps and influenza.

ST. MARYS - Auglaize County Educational Service Center Superintendent Shawn Brown on Wednesday told St. Marys Rotarians about ESC services and funding sources.

CELINA - A Celina man on Tuesday night was transported by emergency helicopter to St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima after an accident left him trapped under a minivan.

KENTON - An old English expression goes "Good things come to those who wait."

Kaeli Schrolucke waited and waited, and then finally had something good happen.

CELINA - The Bulldogs hit about everything thrown in the zone.

And Celina's pitching duo of Reid Harter and Nate Kirk was close to unhittable.

Compiled by Colin Foster and Gary R. Rasberry

Bath's Ryan Gossard threw a no-hitter against St. Marys on Wednesday, leading the ninth-seeded Wildcats to a 3-0 victory over the 12th-seeded Roughriders in Division II sectional play in Bath Township.

NEW BREMEN - Grammy Award winner Maureen McGovern, who topped the charts in 1973 with "The Morning After," will be among the performers in the Lock One Community Arts series for 2017-2018. [More]