On your mark, get set, shop!
After Black Friday comes Small Business Saturday, a nationwide initiative to support small, local businesses, and many local stores from Rockford to Fort Recovery to St. Marys will offer special sales.
On your mark, get set, shop!
CELINA - Eager shoppers lined up outside Menard's in the early hours this morning despite freezing temperatures, with some driving from an hour away in search of Black Friday deals.
Task force probe nets arrests
Five people were arrested earlier this week on drug charges, Auglaize County Sheriff Al Solomon said in a news release.
Arrested were Benjamin R. H
CELINA - Sentencings for two men who had pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a series of fake or forged checks were postponed on Wednesday, when one tested positive for cocaine and the other failed to appear in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.
CELINA - A 33-year-old Lima woman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to aggravated possession of drugs, a third degree felony, in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.
Schlecty gets mail from famous broadcaster
MARIA STEIN - Many people send fan mail to their idols - the majority of them don't hear back.
Brennen Schlecty's case is an exception.
The Ma
COLDWATER - Savannah Seibert has her college choice signed and sealed. Now she can prep for her senior track and field season.
The Coldwater hurdling standout signed with NCAA Division II University of Findlay on Wednesday, joining a solid track program that has had success nationally.
CELINA - After last season's 6-17 campaign, the Celina boys basketball team will look to an experienced team to get back into the top half of the Western Buckeye League.
CELINA - "Renew" is the perfect word for the Celina girls basketball program.
After last season's one-win season, the need is to renew the program with new coaches and new philosophy.
COLDWATER - The preseason for boys basketball at Coldwater has meant a waiting period until the end of the football season to get the full roster into camp to build on last season's 9-14 effort.
COLDWATER - Success breeds success, the old phrase goes, and Connie May is hoping the success of the fall will carry on to her Coldwater girls' basketball team.
FORT RECOVERY - Fort Recovery has a new coach.
Many of the players on the court will be new, too.
Mike Bashore takes over as coach for Chris Guggenbiller, who guided the Indians to a 33-15 mark and two district appearances over the last two years.
FORT RECOVERY - The Indians have been a consistent winner since Brian Patch took over.
Fort Recovery lost a few key cogs from last year's 19-4 team, but Patch is convinced this team can be a winner if it stays on the grind throughout the season.
MARIA STEIN - Marion Local may have surprised some with its run to the Division III regional final last season.
It wouldn't surprise anyone if the Flyers were to duplicate that success or even surpass it this season.
MARIA STEIN - The Flyers lost four starters off last year's 14-win team.
But that doesn't mean coach Beth Streib thinks the 2017-18 group won't be able to maintain the Marion Local standard.
MINSTER - As he enters his second season in charge of the Minster boys' basketball program, head coach Michael McClurg's crew is once again on a temporary hiatus as they wait for the football team to conclude its season sometime within the next couple of weeks.
MINSTER - In his second year in command of the Minster girls' basketball program, head coach Mike Wiss will endure the task of replacing a valuable s
NEW BREMEN - With five returning starters, seventh-year New Bremen boys basketball coach Adam Dougherty is looking to improve from a year ago.
Last season the Cardinals posted a 2-22 overall record, and were 1-8 in the Midwest Athletic Conference.
NEW BREMEN - Returning experience should not be a problem for New Bremen girls basketball coach Chris Burden.
The Cardinals will open the 2017-18 campaign with five returning starters and three other letterwinners.
NEW KNOXVILLE - The goal is simple for New Knoxville: continue to get better.
Josh Lisi's bunch is coming off a campaign in which they went 5-18 overall and 1-8 in the Midwest Athletic Conference. They lost in the Division IV sectional semifinal to Temple Christian.
NEW KNOXVILLE - New Knoxville lost a few talented seniors from last year's team.
But veteran coach Tim Hegemier has some returning players and a couple newbies that he thinks will be able to help the Rangers competitive.
ROCKFORD - The Parkway boys basketball team has experience coming back from last season's 8-16 campaign. The positive from that record is after winning just four games over the first 16 games, the Panthers were 4-4 over the final eight games.
ROCKFORD - Optimism is high for the Parkway girls' basketball team. The program went 4-19 last season but returns the majority of their offense.
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ST. HENRY - The Redskins of 2017-18 will look a lot like the Redskins of 2016-17.
This team should be even better.
First team All-Midwest Athle
ST. HENRY - Wendi Moorman has spent the last four seasons on the St. Henry coaching staff.
Moorman is now in charge of the program and - quite literally - has some big shoes to fill as she replaces former coach and University of Dayton post player Kurt Huelsman.
ST. MARYS - A season after losing several valuable seniors, including the program's all-time leading scorer in Derek Jay, St. Marys head coach Craig
ST. MARYS - With former girls' head coach Nikki Miars stepping down from her position at St. Marys during the offseason, it became Jonathan Burke's time to take over the program which he coached at the junior varsity level a season ago.
