CELINA - Thursday's Marion Local-Celina girls basketball game came down to making the shots.

Marion made its shots early in the game, which was enough to keep the Bulldogs at bay to pick up the 49-38 win at the Fieldhouse as the Flyers improved to 10-0 on the season.

NEW BREMEN - In a close game that featured six freshmen in the starting lineups, three for each team, it came down to who could maintain their poise down the stretch.

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St. Henry took control of the game in the second quarter and never looked back in picking up its 10th win of the season in a 68-30 non-conference girls basketball victory over Jackson Center on Thursday night at Redskin Gymnasium.

What's new? For me, just about everything these days. New job (managing editor of The Daily Standard), new hometown (Coldwater), new driver's license

NEW BREMEN - After a little over five years of brewing suds, Gongoozlers Brewery in New Bremen has closed.

Owners Diane and James Gilberg officially closed the taproom at 629 W. Monroe St. on Sunday.

CELINA - The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is considering reports of dead wild birds found in Auglaize and Mercer counties as presumed positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), commonly known as bird flu, according to an ODNR news release.

CELINA - Three people appeared in Mercer County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday on charges related to drug possession and drug trafficking.

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CELINA - Mercer County commissioners this week appointed Jeff Larmore to serve as the acting county auditor, temporarily filling the vacancy left when Randy Grapner, a Republican, retired Tuesday.

With the holidays finally in the rearview mirror, the 2025 portion of the 2024-25 basketball season gets underway.

The Midwest Athletic Conference will have just one girls game tonight while the Western Buckeye League girls will take another week off before getting back into the league battles.

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Coldwater had its two-game winning streak snapped in a 59-47 loss to Jackson Center in a New Year's Eve matinee in Shelby County.

In the mid-to late-1800s, it was common for someone to gift a friend or loved one with a lock of their hair. Due to photography being in its infancy,

The National Veterinary Services Laboratory confirmed a bird flu detection in Darke County on Friday involving nearly 1 million commercial chickens, according to an Ohio Department of Agriculture news release.

NEW BREMEN - The New Bremen Village council on Monday heard legislation to award a nearly $1.2 million contract for the village's street work project

COLDWATER - Village councilors on Monday night closed out the year by passing the their 2025 budget.

Councilors suspended the rules requiring three public readings and approved the amended 2024 budget and the 2025 budget ordinances as emergency measures.

CELINA - Several people were charged in Mercer County Common Pleas Court this week on charges ranging from sexual battery to drug trafficking.

Shaun W.T. Olberding, 25, Celina, was charged with two counts of sexual battery, a third-degree felony.

VERSAILLES - For the second year in a row, a Versailles senior took home first place in a National Corn Growers Association competition, per a Versailles FFA news release.

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The Battle of 119 wrapped up on Monday at Fort Site Fieldhouse in Fort Recovery as St. Henry and Fort Recovery looked to lock up victories after Marion Local went 14-3 in the junior high, junior varsity and varsity boys and girls basketball matchups over the weekend.

MARIA STEIN - The Battle of 119 has so far been dominated by Marion Local.

After St. Henry needed a win in one of its final two games last year to

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Celina brought home its first wrestling invitational title of the season in winning the Parkway Holiday Invitational