CELINA - Celina City School board members on Monday night voted down a motion to remove immediately the mask mandate in all school buildings and properties, after an animated and at times emotionally charged debate among school officials and parents. [More]

ST. MARYS - St. Marys finance committee will recommend to city council nine appropriation requests, including one for $110,000 for a new UV disinfection system and a sewer study and $13,000 for a new K-9 unit.

ST. MARYS - The city streets and sidewalks committee meeting Monday recommended a single 15-minute parking space in the 100 block of South Main Street be returned to a 2-hour parking space.

FORT RECOVERY - Village council members at their Monday night meeting discussed at length but made no decision on implementing a four-way or two-way stop sign at the intersection of North Wayne Street and State Route 49 while the Broadway/Elm Street reconstruction project continues.

COLDWATER - With a Midwest Athletic Conference crown and the top seed in the Elida district already in hand, Monday's game was little more than a tune-up for the Coldwater baseball team.

FORT RECOVERY - The Midwest Athletic Conference track and field championships capped off the 2021 season, with Minster sweeping the titles. It also capped off a pair of illustrious officiating careers. [More]

MINSTER - Two Minster senior athletes made their college commitments to schools in central Ohio on Monday.

Leland Frick will continue his education at Ashland University and play football for the NCAA Division II Eagles next season.

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The Wright State University-Lake Campus baseball team ended its season after losing two games at the United States Collegiate Athletic Association's Small School World Series on Monday in DuBois, Pennsylvania.

The Western Buckeye League announced its all-league baseball and softball teams on Monday.

Logan Maxwell of Shawnee was named the Baseball Player of the Year. Maxwell will continue his career at Texas Christian University next season.

The Fort Recovery FFA Ag Power Team recently placed second out of 77 teams in the State FFA Ag Power contest, according to a news release from the Fort Recovery FFA.

The Marion Local FFA Chapter participated in the Ohio State FFA Convention held virtually on April 29, according to a news release from the FFA.

Cambell Parrish from Mid-America Farm Credit came to the event and conducted a workshop with students about developing skills and marketing themselves.

For the first time in more than 20 years the Mercer Landmark Latty Terminal Grain Elevator in Paulding County has begun loading full unit trains again, according to a news release.