CELINA - Homemade, fresh-from-the-garden pickles can turn an ordinary summer picnic into a mouth-watering spread of steaming hamburgers and hotdogs, sweet corn on the cob, juicy watermelons, potato or noodle salad and crisp beverages. [More]

CELINA - A 24-year-old Celina man accused of carrying a "fake gun" at Mercer Savings Bank and screaming at bank employees in February was handed a 280-day jail sentence in Celina Municipal Court.

CELINA - Visitor spending generated $267.9 million in economic impact in Auglaize and Mercer counties in 2023, the Grand Lake Region Visitors Center announced in a news release on Friday.

CELINA - Multiple people appeared in Mercer County Common Pleas Court this week on a variety of charges including vandalism and drug possession.

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AUGLAIZE COUNTY - The Wapakoneta Post of the State Highway Patrol will hold an OVI checkpoint in Auglaize County tonight.

The location of the checkpoint is scheduled to be released this morning, according to a State Highway Patrol news release.

ST. HENRY - St. Henry survived an early burst from Celina to win the first game 11-5 and Fort Recovery run-ruled Parkway 16-1 in five innings Thursday as the Redskins and Indians moved into the winner's bracket of the Mercer County ACME baseball sectional tournament. [More]

Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

Minster's Louis Magoto shot a 1-over 73 to win the boys' 16-18 year-old division as the Lima Junior Golf Association went to Arlington's Sycamore Springs for the latest stop on the summer tour with the Mid-American Cleaning Contractors Junior Open.