WAPAKONETA - Though Ohio's statewide COVID-19 incidence case rate has steadily improved during the past three weeks, Auglaize County's rate continues to worsen as eight new cases reported Thursday raised the county's cumulative case count to 3,607.

CELINA - An amendment to Nidec Minster's enterprise zone agreement was approved by Auglaize County Commissioners Thursday, due to the company delaying a small part of its original expansion plans.

WAPAKONETA - After uncertainty about the economic effects of the pandemic, Auglaize County ended 2020 on a strong financial note, with sales tax collections beating out the previous five-year average.

ROCKFORD - In two-plus hours of drizzling rain, both St. Henry and Parkway were battling the conditions as much as each other.

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St. Marys placed both its doubles teams and singles player Joey Vanderhorst into the semifinals afte

MINSTER - Councilors gave first reading Tuesday of an ordinance to vacate portions of streets and alleys for a new subdivision.

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ST. MARYS - The five-year financial forecast for St. Marys City Schools shows the district entering deficit spending in fiscal year 2023 without certain sources of state and local funding, school board members learned during their meeting Wednesday night.

CELINA - Trailing by six heading into the bottom of the seventh inning, the Celina softball team had the tying run on first base when Madison Whitaker swung through strike three to end the game.

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Caden Schwieterman scored on an error at first base with two outs in the bottom of the sixth to give St. Henry a 7-6 victory over Ansonia in non-conference baseball action on Wednesday at the Wally Post Athletic Complex.

ROCKFORD - After many of his basketball games during his senior season, Dylan Hughes talked to a number of college basketball coaches recruiting him to come to their school.

Voters in Gibson, Granville, Marion and Recovery townships and the villages of Burkettsville, Chickasaw, Fort Recovery and St. Henry overwhelmingly approved a new tax levy for the new Southern Mercer County Joint Ambulance District during Tuesday's special election.

ST. MARYS - The effort to make a 10-year, 0.5% income tax levy first passed by the city in 1985 a permanent tax failed Tuesday, with 55.95% of voters rejecting the issue.

WAPAKONETA - Auglaize County Health Department officials on Tuesday reported 22 new confirmed COVID-19 cases since their last report on Thursday, raising the county's cumulative case count to 3,599.

NEW BREMEN - U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, on Tuesday morning visited Elmwood Assisted Living in New Bremen where he was briefed about a critical workforce shortage and other issues impacting the assisted living industry.

MINSTER - Minster has been invited to join a national solar energy planning group.

Village administrator Don Harrod told village council members at

ROCKFORD - Council members thanked longtime village park board member Marlene Roebuck Tuesday for her years of service, and announced several openings were available on the board for interested residents.

CELINA - Three Celina residents have been arrested for drug charges following an investigation by the Heroin Interdiction Team.

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ROCKFORD - Parkway school district residents renewed a 5-year, 8.97-mill operating levy during Tuesday's special election.

The levy passed with 132 votes in favor, or 68.39%, and 61 votes against, or 31.61%, according to unofficial results from the Mercer County Board of Elections.

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Celina put up a run in the bottom of the seventh, but couldn't force extra innings in a 3-2 loss to Wapakoneta on Senior Day at Montgomery Field.

MINSTER - The Coldwater softball team has been on a tear in its last three, hitting home runs and scoring 51 wins during its winning streak.

The hits kept on coming Tuesday night at Four Seasons Park in Minster as the Cavaliers used two early home runs to set the tone and picked 6-2 victory.

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Depth played a big part in Marion Local holding leads in both the high school boys and girls divisions after the first day of the 2021 Mercer County Knights of Columbus Track and Field Meet at Cavalier Stadium in Coldwater.

CELINA - The Celina Police Department planned to replace its defunct computer server which crashed unexpectedly in April, leaving numerous critical case files needed for court proceedings unaccessible.

FORT RECOVERY - The village has been awarded a $1.026 million state grant for a complete reconstruction of Butler Street.

Village council members learned of the Transportation Alternatives Program grant from the Ohio Department of Transportation during their Monday night meeting.

CELINA - Unemployed Mercer County residents who are close to exhausting their unemployment benefit eligibility can get re-employment services through an expanded federal workforce program.

FORT RECOVERY - The slumping bats of the Fort Recovery baseball team needed just five pitches in the bottom of the first to plate their first run.

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Fort Recovery graduate Nick Thwaits will start his 2021 Minor League Baseball season with the Lake Elsinore Storm in California as the team announced its opening day roster for tonight's opener at Visalia.

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The Ohio High School Athletic Association and the University of Dayton announced on Monday that the boys and girls st

CELINA - Laura Zizelman's stepdaughters Naomi and Nashia were ecstatic when they learned their then 41-year-old stepmother was pregnant.

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