CELINA - Mercer County officials in the coming months plan to roll out a new alert system to warn people of critical situations.

And unlike the Mercer County Sheriff's Office's subscription-based Nixle alert system, the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, when put into use, will send a notification to all cellphone users within the county, Mercer County Emergency Management Agency director Chad Willrath told The Daily Standard. [More]

There are a lot of similarities for 2026 Celina graduate Tanner Wendel when he takes the mound at Montgomery Field.

It is the mound that saw Wendel compile a 3-3 record with 49 strikeouts in 40 innings for the Bulldogs over the spring, which earned the righty a spot on the Western Buckeye League's first team. Now as member of the Grand Lake Mariners, he climbs the same hill at a different level. [More]