Favorable weather the last few weeks has put farmers ahead of schedule with the fall harvest, local agriculture officials said.

Though that's good news, heavy rains and flooding earlier in the growing season will likely result in some financial losses.

CELINA - A traffic study of Havemann Road and the access road between Walmart and Menards supports putting a traffic signal at the intersection, city safety service director Tom Hitchcock said. [More]

FORT RECOVERY - Work has started on a half million dollar expansion project at JR Manufacturing that will likely lead to new jobs.

The manufacturer

MINSTER - The Third District Court of Appeals in Lima has upheld an Auglaize County Common Pleas Court judge's decision that a former police officer

VAN WERT - A 27-year-old St. Marys man on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to sex-related charges after allegedly trying to meet with a 13-year-old in a city park last month.

WAPAKONETA - Auglaize County Board of Elections personnel are performing final checks and calibrations on voting equipment as Election Day approaches

At any other school during any other era, Tom Hoying would have been a legitimate four-year starter at quarterback.

At St. Henry in the early 1990

This is the second installment in a periodical series about officiating. The second part looks at two of the more successful football officials in Northwest Ohio, Joel Clay and Dennis Morris, both of whom worked their way from the high school ranks to the Big Ten.

Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

The Celina girls golf team wrapped up its season with an eighth-place finish at the Division I sectional golf tournament on Wednesday at Sycamore Springs in Arlington.

Big winning streaks. Big-time playmakers. Big stakes. Big crowd. An exceptionally big 50-50 pot.

It's hard to find a word other than "big" to quantify the significance of Friday's Marion Local-Coldwater game at Cavalier Stadium.

It has been several years since the Battle of Grand Lake has meant more than just bragging rights between the rivals from Celina and St. Marys.

Eve

We are reaching the point of the season when it is almost time that certain teams can be declared to have locked up a playoff spot or to have been ma [More]

Two Minute Drill:
MINSTER
AT FORT RECOVERY

Last season: The Minster defense stopped Fort Recovery near the goal line and held on for a 28-23 victory on Homecoming night. Evan Huelsman's four-yard touchdown run in the second half proved to be the game-winner for the Wildcats.