St. Marys managers confident
ST. MARYS - Despite the closing of big-box stores Kmart and JCPenney, managers of other businesses in St. Marys Square are mostly confident the loss of foot traffic brought in by those chains won't affect them. [
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FORT RECOVERY - Deanna Knapke has become assistant treasurer, a new position, at Fort Recovery Local Schools.
Board of education members approved a motion to hire Knapke after a Thursday morning executive session.
CELINA - The Ohio State University Extension is looking to pick up additional help through a part-time educator position and/or interns next year.
Schoenleins gain SWCD cooperator honors
Andy Schwieterman, Celina, was re-elected to a third term on the Mercer County Soil and Water Conservation District board of supervisors, and Rogers Albers, Celina, also was elected during the district's 73rd annual meeting on Thursday.
ST. HENRY - Police officers conducting a routine drug search at St. Henry High School on Wednesday afternoon located "very minor paraphernalia," a department spokesperson said.
CELINA - A Lima woman with an outstanding warrant was arrested on Thursday as she was leaving a local store.
Deputies arrested Danielle C. Ames, 32
All-Northwest District Football Selections
The Grand Lake area was well represented as the Northwest District Media Board released its All-District football selections on Thursday night.
Cel
CELINA - New Celina swimming coach Dawn Schwieterman knows most of her team very well. Schwieterman was involved in the YMCA swimming program at the Augalize-Mercer Family Y. Several Bulldogs have competed at top level meets as Y members.
COLDWATER - The Coldwater swimming program will have a familiar face at the controls this season as Matt May makes the move from Celina to Coldwater. May's daughter, Macy, is in the Cavalier program.
FORT RECOVERY - Eleven girls and two boys make up the Fort Recovery swim team roster.
Several of those girls swam their way into the district tournament a season ago.
MARIA STEIN - The core boys return for the Flyers.
And numbers are the highest they've ever been for the Marion Local swimming team.
Thirty eight swimmers are out for the Blue and Gold (11 boys, 27 girls), which gives head coach Scott Smith high hopes as his team prepares to dive right in.
MINSTER - When the 2018 swim season fires up in the next few weeks, Minster head coach Kelly Schulze will welcome back 20 swimmers, including five seniors, for the winter campaign.
NEW BREMEN - New Bremen had many district qualifiers last winter.
Many of them return this season and are ready to improve upon what they did a year ago.
ST. MARYS - As she enters her third year in command of the St. Marys swim team, head coach Katie Szymczak has the daunting task of replacing two stat
CELINA - The only thing keeping James Miracle from having a spring in his step these days is a bad disc in his back.
The Celina wrestling coach has
COLDWATER - While he waits for football season to conclude to get his full team, Coldwater wrestling coach Rob Schmidt will have an experienced group returning this season.
ROCKFORD - Kevin Browning can't help beaming this time of year.
From a modest group of three in his first year of starting a wrestling program at Parkway, Browning begins his second varsity season - and fifth overall - with nearly 20 wrestlers on the roster - with more coming in.
ST. MARYS - The St. Marys wrestling team had to wait a few days before getting the full team into practice after another successful football season.
Last season, Larry Gruber's squad finished in the middle of the pack in the WBL at 4-5 and finished sixth in the league tournament.
Bulldog girls hit hard by graduation
CELINA - Kieth Kiefer's Celina boys' bowling team is loaded with returnees this season.
Eight letterwinners are back for the boys.
Returning starters include Cole Cisco, Parker Maurer, Nate Langenkamp and Kolyn Wiehe.
COLDWATER - The Coldwater Cavaliers have been state contenders year after year.
Don't expect that to change in 2017-18, as the boys' and girls' teams return plenty of experienced players.
MARIA STEIN - The girls will join the boys' team this season for the Blue and Gold.
The Flyers do have some returnees in the lanes - most notably,
MINSTER - The boys' team lost two second team all-conference performers to graduation, which leaves senior Seth Reeves as the only returning full-time starter. A pair of other seniors, Jared Heitkamp and Chance Goubeaux, join Reeves as the lone upperclassmen.
NEW BREMEN - The outlook is bright for the New Bremen boys this season.
Eight starters return for the New Bremen boys, among them Tyler Leichliter, Jarod Keller, Darion Cook, Ian Frey, Spencer Alig, Will Olberding and Mitchell Moeller from a team that went 5-4 in conference play and 5-6 overall.
ROCKFORD - Parkway competes in one of the best bowling conferences in the state.
The goal for each Panther team this season is to finish among the best in the West Ohio Bowling Conference.
ST. HENRY - Trey Buehler bowled the first perfect game in OHSAA state tournament history last season.
He returns this season for St. Henry after h
ST. MARYS - The St. Marys boys are ready to defend their state title.
With a long list of returning bowlers, the Roughriders should have a good chance come tournament time.
