CELINA - The Ohio Facilities Construction Commission has agreed to pitch in an additional $7.87 million toward Celina City School's building project, upping its total contribution to about $59 million. [More]

FORT RECOVERY - School board members at this week's regular meeting learned about a new scholarship aimed at rewarding seniors for their hard work and incentivizing them to attend a higher education institution in Ohio. [More]

CELINA - Mercer County commissioners and agricultural officials toured the offices of the new county ag center on Tuesday afternoon.

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ROCKFORD - Village councilors heard second shift patrolman Caden May will resign effective Jan. 1.

May, who is the son of former village police chief and current Parkway Local Schools resource officer Paul May, was hired June 20 at $21 an hour.

MINSTER - Village councilors paid tribute to outgoing mayor Dennis Kitzmiller and councilman Tom Herkenhoff at Tuesday night's meeting for their decades of service to the village.

CELINA - City electric customers can now purchase credits that support renewable energy development.

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ROCKFORD - Parkway swept Celina in a boys/girls basketball doubleheader at Panther Gymnasium, although the Celina boys nearly pulled off a frantic comeback in the nightcap.

FORT RECOVERY - It took 7 1/2 minutes for St. Marys to score a point in the fourth quarter, but that first point was big.

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ST. HENRY -  He wouldn't go as far as saying their battle with the Fort Loramie Redskins was a "must-win", but St. Henry boys' basketball coach Eric Rosenbeck wasn't shy with explaining the magnitude of his team's 62-44 victory on Tuesday night in St. Henry.

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New Knoxville bounced back from a tough loss in its conference opener last Friday to get back to .500 with a 65-40 win at Ada in Tuesday night boys basketball action. The Rangers improve to 3-3 with the win as the Bulldogs drop to 0-6.