ROCKFORD - Former Parkway Elementary School principal Mark Esselstein after Monday's school board meeting said he is deeply concerned teacher contract negotiations remain stalled after nine months.

CELINA - A Bradford man involved in a Sept. 27, 2020, traffic crash that resulted in the death of a Coldwater woman has been sentenced to a minimum of six years in prison for aggravated vehicular homicide.

CELINA - Mercer County Recorder Angie King on Wednesday afternoon announced she intends to run in the Republican primary election for the 82nd District that had been reshaped to consist of Mercer, Van Wert and Paulding counties and some of Defiance County. [More]

CELINA - Two people have died and 279 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the county during the past week, according to a county health district news release.

NEW BREMEN - School board members at their Wednesday meeting approved final 2022 appropriations totaling $23.64 million, according to district treasurer Jill Ahlers.

A week after one co-leader in the Midwest Athletic Conference girls basketball was pared from the top, a battle for sole possession in the conference takes place at Minster's Wildcat Gymnasium tonight as Minster hosts New Knoxville.

Coldwater seniors Tyler Schwieterman and Jesse Meyer were selected to play in the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association's 75th North-South Classic on April 30 at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon. Both will play for the South in the Divisions IV-V-VI-VII game.