COLDWATER - After several months of renovation, the bulk of the Community Medical Center makeover is newly completed, with its Doctors' Urgent Care clinic to offer extended hours of 8 a.m.-8 p.m. beginning June 1, the Mercer Health hospital board of governors learned Wednesday night. [More]
MINSTER - Over the last 20-plus years, Capital University men's basketball coach Damon Goodwin has looked close to his St. Marys home to find top talent for the Comets' program.
The Grand Lake area pipeline continues as Minster senior Cole McClurg formally committed to play at the NCAA Division III program in the Bexley neighborhood of Columbus. [More]
CELINA - A 53-year-old Fort Recovery man indicted in February on drug charges in Mercer County Common Pleas Court was hit with a superseding indictment last week that included dozens of charges related to the possession of child sexual abuse images.
CELINA - The Mercer County Prosecutor's Office asked the county judge this month to prohibit a Celina couple from filing lawsuits and requesting public records without a judge's approval.
NEW BREMEN - For the third year in a row, New Bremen Local Schools was named a 5-star district on its 2025 state report card, making it one of the best public schools in the state.
CELINA - A 23-year-old Celina man was sentenced to over a year in prison this week for a January incident in which he tried to strangle his girlfriend, then left a Celina police officer with stitches while resisting arrest.
While this story is directed especially to the small fry of the present generation, dad and grandpa should find a personal interest in it, as well as the women of their families who frequently found their kitchens somewhat disordered and messy from Operation Kite Making, 55 or 60 years ago.
The St. Marys boys tennis team continued its hot run with its fifth straight shutout win over Western Buckeye League opponents with a 5-0 win over Bath in a rescheduled contest.
CELINA - Deputy Haiden Stidam has been selected as the Mercer County Sheriff's Office next K-9 handler, an assignment that will find the officer-dog duo working, playing and living side-by-side, hopefully for many years to come.
Mercer County Sheriff Doug Timmerman plans to acquire a dog, likely a German Shepherd because of its suitable demeanor, sometime in August from Von der haus Gill Kennel in Wapakoneta. The chosen dog and Stidam will then undergo training for several weeks. [More]
MINSTER - To compete in baseball in the MAC, you have to win your clunkers. Early errors from Fort Recovery allowed Minster to build a 5-3 lead, but the Indians rallied in the seventh and picked up a 7-6 road win to stay undefeated in conference play. [More]
MINSTER - A Minster printing company is asking Minster village council to approve a tax abatement agreement for a planned $3.25 million expansion project.
GREENVILLE - A 22-year-old Ansonia man accused of killing his employer then setting her home on fire earlier this month was formally indicted by a Darke County grand jury this week on several charges related to the incident.
CELINA - A 42-year-old Celina woman was sentenced to time in a community correctional institute and probation in Mercer County Common Pleas Court this week for the theft of a motor vehicle.
ROCKFORD - Village councilors on Tuesday heard the potential safety risks flooded streets can cause, as seen in recent weeks after the intense thunderstorm April 14.
A five-run first inning set the tone for New Bremen as the Cardinals evened their Midwest Athletic Conference baseball mark to 2-2 with a 10-3 win over Parkway on Tuesday at Don Black Field.
BOE considering synthetic turf and field inside track
By William Kincaid
CELINA - School board members are leaning in the direction of synthetic turf for a new football field and asphalt base for the new track facility, rather than post-tension concrete.
At Monday night's regular meeting, board members took up the d [More]
ST. MARYS - St. Henry took advantage of a variety of scoring opportunities to hand St. Marys a 12-2 defeat in five innings Monday evening at K.C. Geiger Park.
The Redskins scored twice on passed balls, twice on wild pitches, a sacrifice fly, a pair of two-run singles and a two-run double. [More]
CELINA - A dedicated crew of custodians were hailed for their work responding to flooding at Celina High School April 14, preventing a bad situation from escalating into an even worse one.
FORT RECOVERY - For the second year in a row, Fort Recovery Local Schools was named a 5-star district on its 2025 state report card, making it one of the best public schools in the state.
CELINA - Several people were indicted on criminal charges in Mercer County Common Pleas Court in the last week, including a 24-year-old Rockford man accused of sending or producing child sexual abuse images.
FORT RECOVERY - Fort Recovery councilors on Monday heard that village officials are getting prices together for a possible asphalt overlay project throughout town.
A 59-year-old Rossburg woman sustained injuries Monday morning in a single-vehicle rollover in Darke County, a news release from Sheriff Mark Whittaker states.
Coldwater senior Rudy Kremer will play this weekend in the annual Ohio High School Football Coaches Association's North-South All-Star Games on Saturday at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon.
Is it a philosophical concept, a work of post-hippy art or a New Age 'thing?'
By William Kincaid
WAPAKONETA - Though prolific Renaissance man Jim Bowsher has been gone for nearly two years, his spirit remains firmly imbued within The Temple of Tolerance, a primitive/visionary art site sprawled along 2 acres of residential property in Wapakoneta. [More]
CELINA - School board members are poised to vote on numerous personnel items at tonight's regular meeting, among them a new Celina High School principal and new head varsity boys basketball coach.
DARKE COUNTY - A 65-year-old Versailles man is dead following a skid loader accident on Sunday afternoon.
At about 4:48 p.m. Sunday, first responders were dispatched to the 7600 block of Medford Road on reports of a fatal accident, according to a Darke County Sheriff's Office news release.
