CELINA - The annual Celina Combined Services fundraising drive will kick off during the halftime show at the Sept. 14 Celina High School homecoming football game against Lima Bath.

CELINA - A Rockford man on Wednesday received two consecutive 11-month prison sentences for two fifth-degree felony charges of aggravated possession of drugs.

ST. MARYS - FFA members were recognized at Wednesday's school board meeting for being recognized as having a top-10 program in innovative activities nationally.

CELINA - Seven people indicted by a Mercer County Grand Jury made initial appearances and two failed to appear on Wednesday in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.

CHICKASAW - Village council member Nate Kirwen on Wednesday announced his resignation from council, effective Oct. 10.

He said he is moving to Maria Stein with his family and is going to miss being on council. He has been a member for two years.

CELINA - Former Celina restaurant manager John H. Sherman, 25, was sentenced on Wednesday for disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, a fifth-degree felony.

VAN WERT - A 27-year-old Celina man who had pleaded guilty in July to a gross sexual imposition charge was sentenced on Wednesday to five years of community control, up to six months at River City Community-based Correctional Facility in Cincinnati and 30 days in jail at a later date.

HUBER HEIGHTS - Closing in on 70, George Thorogood is still bad to the bone - a gruff-voiced, guitar-shredding, hilarious wildman whose power to entertain remains undiminished.

Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

St. Henry picked up Mercer County bragging rights in girls golf with a dominating day at the Mercer County girls golf invitational on Wednesday at the Mercer County Elks.