As the decades pass in the Mercer and Auglaize counties' area, there is little doubt how athletics continue to flourish at the high school level year in and year out.
While local teams continue to pile up state championships and produce future college standouts, a couple of aspects of our area's athletic heritage have slowly gone by the way side. [More]
CELINA - Mercer County Engineer Jim Wiechart's office, while jockeying among much larger counties', has brought home oodles of federal funds over the last several years to help pay for road and bridge projects.
Mercer County ranks No. 4 in the state, behind the much more populous counties of Cuyahoga, Butler and Franklin, in federal funds awarded from 1999 through 2023 - $39.16 million. [More]
Paul Francis Heckler, 92, of Aurora, Indiana, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on Monday, September 4, 2017 in Dillsboro, Indiana. [More]
When these two teams meet, two things are guaranteed: 1) The 50/50 raffle and crowd will both be huge. 2) And the game itself will be highly entertaining, too.
Let's face it. After only two weeks, the computer points do not mean very much. Each team has only played 20 percent of the games which affect its first-level points, and only two of the potentially 90 results which could affect second-level points have been factored in.
Last meeting: Celina, 12-7. Ryan Harter's second touchdown of the game with 1:55 left in the fourth quarter sent Celina past Elida in the WBL opener at Kraft Stadium in Elida.
MONTEZUMA - The woman who had been freed from a submerged vehicle early Monday morning died at a Fort Wayne hospital, an Ohio Department of Natural Resources spokesperson confirmed this morning.
ST. MARYS - A seriously injured St. Marys teen was taken by medical helicopter to a Dayton hospital after her car had collided head-on with a dump truck late Wednesday morning near St. Marys.
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP - Two people suffered incapacitating injuries in a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Frahm Pike and State Route 118 just before 10 a.m. Wednesday.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. - John Mayer proved to the thousands of fans at Klipsch Music Center on Sunday night that he is without a doubt one of his generation's most exciting and talented musical voices, a man willing to follow his muse wherever it may take him across the popular music spectrum.
