By WILLIAM KINCAID
and JARED MAUCH
newsdept@dailystandard.com

Local election officials were a bit disappointed with the lower-than-anticipated turnout for the highly contested presidential primary on Tuesday but noted the casting and tabulation of ballots went, for the most part, smoothly.

CELINA - A former Celina assistant police chief bested the incumbent for the Republican nomination to be Mercer County Clerk of Courts.
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Matt Huffman of Lima defeated Celina native John Adams on Tuesday for the Republican party's nomination for Ohio's 12th Senate District. Both men left the Ohio House after 2014 due to term limits.

WAPAKONETA - Incumbent Don Regula on Tuesday won the Republican nomination for an Auglaize County commissioner seat in the November election.

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Janet Garrett of Oberlin claimed victory on Tuesday in the Democratic primary for Ohio's 4th U.S. Congressional District.

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A Mercer County assistant prosecutor lost her bid for the Republican nomination for a position on the Third District Court of Appeals.

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Voters on Tuesday approved ballot items affecting Coldwater Exempted Village Schools and Dublin Township, according to unofficial vote totals.

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CELINA - A former Fort Recovery schools teacher and coach convicted of sexual battery involving a student has had another appeal denied.

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FORT RECOVERY - Class size should rebound in the district, based on the number of children signed up for kindergarten screening.

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ST. MARYS - A search of the intermediate school found no dangerous devices after a bomb threat was reported Tuesday afternoon.

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MINSTER - Village council members Tuesday night approved purchasing three vehicles through a state program.

The vehicles are a 2016 Ford Expedition SUV, a 2016 Freightliner dump truck and a 2016 Ford flatbed truck that will be used by village personnel.

ST. MARYS - A Biggby Coffee shop is coming to the area to help residents "B Happy."

Set to open Tuesday, the St. Marys location at 488 Fortman Drive of the growing coffee franchise is owned by Jonathon Sell and his mother, Constance.

It's been a sweet season to this point for Fort Recovery alum Wade Gelhaus and the Saginaw Valley State University men's basketball team.

It went from sweet to elite on Tuesday night. [More]

Coldwater's Andy Brunet earned honorable mention All-Ohio honors in the Associated Press Division III state honors list released Tuesday.

Brunet, the MAC co-Player of the Year, averaged 16.3 points and 13.2 rebounds per game this season.