Area residents who test positive for COVID-19 may not be contacted before their isolation period ends due to a surge in testing and new, reduced quarantine and isolation guidance adopted by the state department of health.

CELINA - The former Orchard Tree Restaurant at 501 Grand Lake Road has been purchased by Mercer Health.

Jon Dingledine, chief financial officer at Mercer Health, said officials closed on the building on Thursday at a cost of $465,000. [More]

ST. MARYS-The first baby of 2022 was born at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys at 11:48 p.m. Jan. 1, 2022, according to a hospital press release.

FORT RECOVERY - Village council members heard second reading of an ordinance amending the village zoning code during their first meeting of the year on Monday.

FORT RECOVERY - Trailing by six points late in the fourth quarter, Fort Recovery seemed on the brink of defeat.

Instead, the Indians scored the fin

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Gabrielle Stober's free throw with no time remaining lifted Parkway past a tenacious Botkins squad 38-37 on Monday night at Panther Gymnasium.