Operating margin is thin, but going in 'right direction'
COLDWATER - Mercer Health Chief Financial Officer Jon Dingledine on Wednesday night said the $100 million-plus budget for fiscal year 2026 shows that the local health care system is moving in the right direction.
MARIA STEIN - Thanks to some hard work and creativity from four of her peers, Marion Local third-grader Mayah Schwieterman is now happily able to study in a regular classroom chair like everyone else. [More]
CELINA - Amid the uncertainty triggered by the Trump administration's directives earlier this year to halt federal grants, an antipoverty agency serving Mercer, Auglaize and Allen counties has learned it can breathe a sigh of relief - at least through September.
ROCKFORD - In a 3-2 vote, Parkway Local Schools board members hired an elementary principal from a Henry County school district to be the new superintendent.
CELINA - A Celina couple was arrested Tuesday on child endangerment charges after their 2-year-old daughter allegedly ingested a THC product and had to be sent to Dayton Children's Hospital.
NEW BREMEN - Superintendent Jason Schrader unveiled plans from Garmann Miller for renovations to the New Bremen High School offices and concessions at Wednesday night's regular school board meeting.
In 1914, Lilas Gorsuch was on vacation with her parents at a Native American reservation in Michigan. While there, her father bought her two sketches which she kept for many years. She donated them to the Mercer County Historical Society in 1989.
Area boys basketball players earned statewide honors as the Ohio Prep Sports Media Association announced its All-Ohio teams for Divisions IV through VII on Wednesday.
The Auglaize-Mercer Family YMCA Waves swim team will send nine members to compete at the YMCA Long Course Nationals that runs March 31 to April 4 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Long course refers to swimming in a 50-meter pool rather than a 25-meter pool.
