Saturday, February 17th, 2024
By Abigail Miller
  COLDWATER - Voters served by Coldwater Exempted Village Schools will decide on a proposed 1.75% earned income tax levy in the March 19 primary election.
The proposed income tax levy would replace the existing 0.5% traditional income tax with a 1.75% earned income tax. [More]
Elwer's trey gives Delphos St. John's a share of the MAC title
By Gary R. Rasberry
  COLDWATER - The weather outside the Palace was frightful.
But in the jam-packed gym, it was delightful.
St. John's and Coldwater gave the capacity crowd of over 2,000 a 32-minute exhibition of great basketball with sole possession of first place in the Midwest Athletic Conference on the line. [More]
Obituaries on February 17th, 2024
Joseph Maier, 76, of Dawson Road, Huston died Feb. 16, 2024 at his residence. [More]
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Vote '24
ST. HENRY - The St. Henry Consolidated Local School District have a five-year, 4.6-mill renewal emergency operating tax levy on the March 19 primary election.
ST. MARYS - A detached garage in St. Marys was decimated by flames in a fire on Friday afternoon.
None of the home renters or first responders were injured in the fire but the wood-frame garage with vinyl siding was deemed a total loss, St. Marys City Fire Chief Doug Ayers said.
By ABIGAIL MILLER and MICHAEL FRANK
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CELINA - The Lenten season brings fish fry fever to the Grand Lake region.
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CELINA - Wapakoneta's offense went from struggling to sizzling against Celina Friday night.
Behind a 26-point second half - which felt like an offe
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New Bremen's Andy Jiang and Celina's Jackson Newcomb earned trips to next week's Division II state swim meet after qualifying out of the district meet held Friday at Bowling Green State University.
MINSTER - If there were a script for Minster head coach Michael McClurg's 100th win of his eight-year head-coaching career, it couldn't have produced much more edge-of-your-seat excitement.
NEW KNOXVILLE - After seeing a nine-point lead disappear midway through the third quarter, Fort Recovery rallied down the stretch to claim a 39-34 Midwest Athletic Conference victory over New Knoxville Friday night at the Barn.
MARIA STEIN - Marion Local seized the lead in the first quarter and kept its foot on the gas the rest of the way on Friday.
The Flyers, who had wat