CELINA - City councilors on Monday night learned the police department is sponsoring a free community event aimed at teaching people how to keep themselves and their children safe from myriad dangers lurking online.
They also moved to enter into an agreement with Ohio Department of Natural Resources for a $50,000 reimbursable grant to get an urban tree program off the ground. [More]
FORT RECOVERY - St. Henry's Evan Bowers held Fort Recovery to four baserunners and no runs in its final five turns at-bat.
But the two runs he allowed in the first inning held up for the Indians.
Caden Homan hit a two-run double, Rex Leverette took away a potential game-tying hit in right field, and Alex Dues shut out the Redskins for a 2-0 win in a Midwest Athletic Conference baseball game at the LeFevre Baseball/Softball Complex on Tuesday. [More]
CELINA - Lake Facilities Authority on Tuesday morning signed off on a $490,000 sale agreement for 16.5-acres of land near Grand Lake St. Marys State Park.
CELINA - A Coldwater man was indicted last week on terrorism charges in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.
Thomas L. Sparklin, 39, was indicted on one count of making a terroristic threat, a third-degree felony; and one count of inducing panic, a first-degree misdemeanor.
COLDWATER - A group of citizens took aim at the appearance of Coldwater Memorial Park at Monday night's regular village council meeting, asserting it's been on the decline the last few years.
NEW BREMEN- School board members on Tuesday hired a handful of teachers and recommended a list of seniors for graduation.
Sixty seniors are set to receive their diplomas on May 19 with commencement set for 2:30 p.m. in the high school gymnasium, superintendent Jason Schrader said.
ST. HENRY - After a sluggish start, Fort Recovery picked up the pace over the final four innings.
Trailing 8-4 after three, the Indians got hot and earned a 14-9 victory over St. Henry in Midwest Athletic Conference softball action on a rainy Tuesday afternoon at the Wally Post Athletic Complex.
Celina senior Braylon Gabes will play this weekend in the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association's North-South All-Star Games to be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon.
I hope everyone enjoyed the peeks of sun that we've had in the past few days. Living in Ohio, we have to appreciate the five-minute windows of warmth in March and April. The lake level is starting to drop a little and warming each day. Signs of spring are here.
St. Marys senior Evan Angstmann will be part of the Ohio team during the 28th annual Nancy Rehm Border Wars Classic all-star basketball teams to be played Sunday at the Hutzell Center on the campus of the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne.
CELINA - A national chain of donut shops headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is expected to expand to Celina.
Sukon and Sue Ly of Celina aspire to become Daylight Donuts licensees, owning and operating their own store. They plan to build their donut shop at 222 West Logan Street, a vacant lot they purchased in October 2022, according to Mercer County Auditor's Office online documents. [More]
St. Marys picks up WBL tennis win over rival Celina
By Gary R. Rasberry
ST. MARYS - With the Western Buckeye League tournament coming up next week, Celina and St. Marys faced off in boys tennis action that starts a busy week to try to complete postponed league matches.
The Roughriders improved to 4-1 in league play with a 5-0 sweep of the Bulldogs at the Minster Bank Courts. Celina drops to 0-4 in the WBL. [More]
CELINA - City councilors on Monday night voted to replace a failing police dispatch console at a cost of nearly $200,000 and five mobile police radios doomed to obsolescence for a little over $32,000.
ST. MARYS - The city has agreed to sell three lots in its Sleepy Hollow subdivision even though the bids came in under the reserve prices during an online auction.
NEW BREMEN - Village councilors may remove two stop signs on Front Street and put up a new one on Park Street following the results of a traffic study by Choice One Engineering.
CELINA - Celina had a chance to seize the advantage with the game tied but came up empty, and Coldwater capitalized.
Madison Wendel hit a go-ahead home run and the Cavaliers took advantage of free bases to earn a 6-2 win in a softball game at Jim Hoess Field on Monday.
MINSTER - Minster baseball coach Mike Wiss normally wouldn't be too worried after witnessing his team score five runs to take a four-run cushion into the final two innings.
St. Henry used a six-run second inning to pull away and pick up its sixth win of the softball season with a 10-4 victory over St. Marys at the Wally Post Athletic Complex on Monday evening.
Celina dropped to 2-12 on the softball season after losing a pair of games to Findlay on Saturday at Westview Park. The Trojans improve to 10-3 with the win.
CELINA - Celina Planning commissioners on Thursday night green-lighted the site design of the new Celina Middle School/High School on East Wayne Street, the second phase of a $130 million building project.
Officials with project architect Garmann Miller unveiled renderings of the proposed 202,500-square-foot building earlier this week at a school board meeting and then again at the planning commission meeting. [More]
ST. MARYS - St. Marys hit the ball hard from the jump on Friday and never stopped, racking up 14 hits in a 17-0, five-inning win over Ottawa-Glandorf in a Western Buckeye League softball game at K.C. Geiger Park on Friday.
Coldwater's Rachel Schroyer hit a walkoff single in the seventh inning, sealing Madison Wendel's no-hitter and giving the Cavaliers a 1-0 win over Lima Central Catholic in a softball game at home on Thursday.
