NEW BREMEN - A consultant recommends that village council members raise water and sewer utility rates to generate enough revenue to cover all costs associated with providing the services.
Councilors at Monday night's regular meeting also gave first reading of an ordinance that would authorize a 3% wage increase for all village employees and second reading of a $24.86 million 2022 budget. [More]
The postseason honors stacked up for Siena Heights junior linebacker Kole Murlin.
The Celina High School graduate, who earned the Mid-States Football Association's Mideast League Defensive Player of the Year in November, was named a second team All-American in NAIA by the American Football Coaches Association on Monday afternoon. [More]
ROCKFORD - The Parkway Local Schools board of education and Parkway Education Association have yet to reach a new contract agreement after eight months of negotiating.
ST MARYS - City council members on Monday night gave first reading of the city's roughly $46 million budget, a reduction of about $86,000 since last week's committee review. City officials noted more revisions might occur.
WAPAKONETA - Auglaize County Health Department officials on Monday reported 54 new cases of COVID-19 since their last report on Thursday, raising the county's cumulative number of cases to 5,479.
MARIA STEIN - Marion Local school board members helped dedicate the new $1.67 million elementary school addition during a board meeting held Monday night in one of four new classrooms.
Residents living on county and township roadways are reminded not to leave snow plowed from private driveways on the roadway, according to a news release from the Mercer County Engineer's Office.
Riley Rismiller's bucket with six seconds remaining gave Coldwater the lead and Becca Wenning's block of Ottoville's potential winning basket lifted the Cavaliers past the Big Green 51-49 in Monday night girls basketball action at L.W. Heckman Gymnasium in Ottoville.
