COLDWATER - Mercer Health's total current assets are up about $4 million from last year, due in part to hospital assistance payments the hospital system received from the government, the hospital's board of governors learned at their regular meeting Wednesday.

"Fellows you sound like a bunch of hogs eating charcoal." The speaker was Harold Lutz, now of Mendon and Mercer County's chief deputy auditor. The pl

CELINA - A 59-year-old Celina man was sentenced to around six months in jail this week for drug possession charges out of Mercer County Common Pleas Court.

The Mercer County Commissioners announced that the Celina-Coldwater Bike Path will be closed to the public Sept. 8-11 (Tuesday-Friday) while contract

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  By JOE SCHATZ and GARY R. RASBERRY
sports@dailystandard.com

After an opening week where the league went 6-4 overall, the Western Buckeye League gets underway on Friday with a full slate of games.

  The high school football season has begun and with it comes our initial numbers to analyze.

Over the previous 17 years, the Western Buckeye League

  The Midwest Athletic Conference, 9-1 in last week's first week of non-league play, gets another week of prep before entering the conference battles.

Among the matchups is a battle of 1-0 teams that were a combined 1-19 last season as Parkway hosts Delphos Jefferson.

Impact Players

Offense

Noah Talmadge, RB, Celina

19 carries for 132 yards and a touchdown in the Bulldogs' 38-35 win over St. Henry.

CELINA - Celina senior Parker Wynk continues to show gradual improvement after sustaining a serious spinal injury during last week's football game against St. Henry, his family shared in recent posts on social media.

MENDON - Councilors in Mendon voted Tuesday night to allow the village to proceed with misdemeanor charges against two property owners in Celina Municipal Court, a step councilors had threatened to take for over a year.

COLUMBUS - Ohio's unemployment rate fell slightly in July to 3.4% from 3.6% in June, while unemployment in both Mercer and Auglaize counties followed suit and fell roughly a quarter of a percent in July.

COLUMBUS - Ohio 211, in partnership with the Ohio Department of Children and Youth, announced Tuesday the completion of a statewide expansion, bringing 211 services to all 88 Ohio counties and ensuring every Ohioan can access local community resources, no matter where they live.

Mercer County Engineer Jim Wiechart announcing Tuesday that Frysinger Road between U.S. Route 33 and Shelley Road will be closed beginning Monday, Au

CELINA - Just days after St. Henry and Celina met in a classic on the gridiron, the two schools met on the hardwood of Celina's Intermediate School in volleyball. An early run paved the way for the visiting Redskins, who swept Celina 25-9, 25-21, 25-14 to move to 2-2 on the year.

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Fort Recovery improved to 2-0 on the season in sweeping St. Marys 25-20, 25-8, 25-21 in a matchup of Grand Lake area teams at Grand Lake Health System Court in St. Marys.

COLDWATER - Coldwater village councilors heard recommendations from the safety committee at Monday night's regular meeting, following up on the issue of kids and motorized devices that was brought to the council's attention by Steve Hennessey at its July 13 regular meeting.

CELINA - School board members will have to modify administrative guidelines in alignment with current policy in order to allow homeschooled students to participate in activities such as band.

CELINA - A 49-year-old Mendon man accused of raping a child under the age of 13 multiple times from 2015 to 2016 was indicted on more than 20 child sex crimes last week in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.

A 30-year-old Celina man died in a single-vehicle crash Sunday morning on U.S. Route 33 in Auglaize County, a news release from the Wapakoneta Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol states.

ST. HENRY - Village council members in St. Henry approved on third reading an ordinance regulating e-bikes, scooters and other personal conveyance vehicles during their regular meeting Monday night.

NEW BREMEN - New Bremen village councilors Monday approved emergency legislation to award an almost $138,000 contract to a Minster company to improve the roof of the Crown Pavilion off Plum Street.

ST. MARYS - St. Marys city councilors Monday night introduced multiple pieces of annual legislation, and acknowledged the recent deaths of two former councilors.

COLDWATER - After a season-opening loss to Ada, Coldwater's girls soccer team had to face a familiar foe, Fort Jennings, a team the Cavaliers beat tw

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Bridon Jeffries scored a hat trick as Celina opened its 2026 boys soccer season with an 8-0 shutout of Lincolnview on Monday night in Middle Point.

When the National FFA announced its proficiency finalists Aug. 7, Minster FFA's Ruth Ann Carity was named as a top four finalist in the area of swine production entrepreneurship.

CELINA-Known to most as "Mad" Anthony Wayne, for his fierce temperament and battlefield reputation, Wayne devoted his life to the United States, fighting through two wars and rising to the rank of Major General.

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Coldwater hosted the 17th annual Totally Promotional Cavalier Spikeoff on Saturday, bringing into the Palace a tough