ROCKFORD - The Mercer County Sheriff's Office's Active Killer Response Training is underway this week at Parkway Local Schools, with 52 officers from police agencies in Mercer County and neighboring Portland, Indiana, signed up to participate. [More]

  CELINA - All 15 political subdivisions have passed resolutions necessary to establish a new Mercer County joint Ambulance District, the first step toward putting a property tax levy on the ballot to pay for additional paramedics and firefighters in parts of the county. [More]

ROCKFORD - Village councilors on Tuesday approved the 2025 budget at $2.89 million, of which about $1 million is dedicated toward a street reconstruction project.

The village of Fort Recovery has landed another big state financial award, this time nearly $440,000 through the Safe Routes to School program.

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COLDWATER - The venue for tonight's Red, White and Blue Celebration has been changed from Coldwater Memorial Park to the Coldwater Exempted Village Schools' auditoria due to expected inclement weather.

MINSTER - Village councilors on Tuesday night voted to use a portion of a recently awarded $100,000 state grant to hire a Sidney engineering firm to conduct a study on a proposed multi-use trail from Minster to neighboring Fort Loramie.

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Botkins' Ross Dietz held off Coldwater's Ben Giere to win the boys' 16-18 year-old division at the La