CELINA - Mercer County commissioners on Thursday pledged to contribute $22,500 over the next three years to help pay for a lake manager to oversee efforts to improve and enhance Grand Lake's water quality.

The Daily Standard staff took a look back at 2017 and picked the following top 10 stories of the year.

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ST. HENRY - Village council members on Thursday awarded over $400,000 in contracts for the installation of a water transmission line as part of a new water well field.

GRAND LAKE - Dredge teams pulled a record 455,000 cubic yards of sediment from the Grand Lake this year, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

ST. MARYS - City council members on Thursday gave first reading of an ordinance setting the city's 2018 appropriations for all accounts at $42.7 million, the lowest amount in four years.

CELINA - A 29-year-old Fort Wayne, Indiana, man who allegedly led officers on a high speed chase from Rockford to Decatur, Indiana, on Nov. 30, made his initial court appearance on Thursday afternoon in Mercer County Common Please Court.

CELINA - Two male suspects arrested on drug-related charges made initial appearances on Thursday in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.

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ROCKFORD - Mason Baxter came out cookin'.

The rest of the Parkway Panthers soon put on their aprons and lent a helping hand.

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CELINA - After a nail-biter of a consolation game, the championship game of the 32nd OVISCO Classic proved to be a one-sided contest.

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New Bremen played solid defense in holding Jackson Center to under 20 points in picking up a 28-19 victory in girls' non-conference basketball at Cardinal Gymnasium on Thursday..