COLDWATER- Mercer Health officials on Wednesday night announced plans to purchase the Grand Lake Galleria Conference Center in Celina for $3 million. [More]

CELINA - Crews have begun work on forming a foundation for the new grades 7-12 building, while on the other side of town contractors are ahead of schedule in renovating the Celina Intermediate School.

AUGLAIZE COUNTY - Voters in several townships and villages in southwestern Auglaize County will decide on fire and emergency medical services levies on the Nov. 5 general election ballot. [More]

Mercer County was knocked out of Ohio's lowest unemployment spot in September by Medina and Geauga counties, which tied for No. 1.

Ohio's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.5%, with area counties seeing a small uptick in joblessness in September.

On Nov. 14, 1909, I stepped back and critically checked the equipment arranged on my bed. The equipment included my new Marlin repeater, shells, hunting coat and other clothing and my freshly greased high top shoes.

VAN WERT - Note to the other 15 teams in Division VI still playing volleyball: top-ranked and undefeated Coldwater is going to be very hard to beat. [More]

Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

New Knoxville returns to regional play for the first time since 2021 as the Rangers won the Division VII Shawnee district title with a 25-16, 25-19, 25-20 victory over Delphos St. John's at Lappin Gymnasium in Shawnee Township on Wednesday.

ELIDA - David Hammons' message was simple when his Celina girls soccer team trailed Elida 1-0 at the half and were down 2-0 with 31 minutes to play in regulation.

WAPAKONETA - New Bremen's bench players huddled around their teammates and coaches during a timeout Wednesday, singing and dancing to a Justin Bieber song.

Area volleyball players and coaches earned honors as the District 8 Volleyball Coaches Association released its honors list.

Instead of going with teams from each division, an all-inclusive first, second and third team of 20 players each were selected.

  It's become a high school football game fans from around the state keep an eye out for.

And the 2024 rendition of Marion Local versus Coldwater should live up to the hype.

HOME FINALÉ

Celina wraps up the regular season at Celina Stadium in hosting a Wapakoneta team that has already sewn up the Western Buckeye League title at 9-0 and 8-0 in league.

  In this article we shall try to project what the possible playoff matchups for each WBL and MAC school may be by predicting the final computer points for regions featuring local teams. Hopefully we can also show how an upset or two may change the projections.

Impact Players

Offense

Justin Knouff, QB, Marion Local

13 carries for 173 yards and two touchdowns in the Flyers' 21-0 win over Minster.