Friday, September 28th, 2018
By Tom Stankard
CELINA - Skydiving may be a once-in-a-lifetime, bucket-list item for some, but Celina resident Brian Nedderman, 48, has done it more than 2,000 times.
He and the rest of his eight-person team, the Shapeshifters, are the new national champions of intermediate eight-way formation skydiving. They earned gold in the U.S. Parachute Association National Skydiving Championship on Sept. 14-15 in Rochelle, Illinois, among 600 skydivers from across the country. [More]
St. Marys tops Celina 5-1 in Battle of Grand Lake
By Colin Foster
CELINA - Celina girls soccer coach Eric Gerker had positive remarks about the play of his team after Monday's tie with Wapakoneta.
But there weren't a lot of positives for the Bulldogs on Thursday.
That same Celina team that had battled goal-for-goal with Wapakoneta earlier in the week couldn't keep pace with St. Marys in a 5-1 loss at the soccer stadium. [More]
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Cost estimated at $1.75M
CELINA - County officials have the final funding necessary to proceed with the proposed Carthagena sanitary sewer project.
Mercer County commission
United Entertainment Corp. has purchased Chakeres Theatres' Celina and Springfield locations.
The two will be UEC Theatres' fourth and fifth theate
MARIA STEIN - A bike tour and rodeo is being held in Marion Township Park on Sunday to raise money to plan and create multiuse paths in the Marion communities.
Ohio's senators, Republican Rob Portman and Democrat Sherrod Brown, had deeply divergent views on Thursday's testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh about the judge's nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court.
CELINA - County commissioners on Thursday moved to make more than $20,000 in repairs to a nearly four-decade-old air-conditioning unit in the Mercer County Central Services Building, the home of several county agencies.
Tournament Golf
Compiled by Colin Foster
The top two boys golf teams in the Midwest Athletic Conference showed up in a big way at the Division III sectional tournament on Thursday at the Colonial Golfers Club in Allen County.
Area Roundup
Marion Local traveled to Fort Recovery and left with a big three-set victory over the Indians in an MAC battle between state-ranked teams on Thursday night.