CELINA - Country music stars Neal McCoy and Joe Diffie will headline the 2018 Mercer County Fair's entertainment.

The two will perform on the opening night of the fair at 8 p.m. Aug. 10. The fair will continue through Aug. 16.

CELINA - Firefighters rescued two children from an upstairs bedroom after a fire broke out around 11:37 a.m. Tuesday at 221 S. Ash St., Celina.

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CELINA - Plans for the new Harley Jones Rotary Memorial Amphitheater continue to advance as city council members this week approved first reading of an ordinance to purchase materials for the new structure, the planned centerpiece of the new Bryson Park District.

MINSTER - Full-time village employees will receive a 3-percent pay raise for 2018, and part-time workers will receive an additional 25 cents per hour.

The raises were given after village council members met in executive session for about 35 minutes on Monday after the regular council session.

ROCKFORD - 101.3 WRKD Radio Station Manager Jim Crocker on Tuesday told council members he has launched his own business, Crocker Media Group LLC, to manage the station and has opened a checking account for that business to pay the cost of running the station.

FORT RECOVERY - Cheeseman Transport officials are asking school board members to approve a 100-percent, 10-year tax abatement on a $1.7 million expansion to their building on State Route 119.

WAPAKONETA - The Auglaize County Board of Elections office will be closed from Monday through Jan. 1, director Michelle Wilcox said in a news release

NEW BREMEN - Tuesday's girls' basketball game between New Bremen and Fort Loramie was a typical scrappy game between the teams.

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Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

Parkway held Waynesfield-Goshen to eight points in the second half to come back and pick up its fifth win of the girls' basketball season and third win in a row with a 48-33 decision in Waynesfield.