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.

Seventh graders from math and STEM teacher Jeanna Heitkamp's STEM class crafted special chair risers and a step stool for Mayah, who was born with a rare type of dwarfism, as a part of the Mercer County Board of Developmental Disabilities STEM Invention Challenge. [More]

  Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

Area seniors continue to make college and athletic commitments for next school year.

Fort Recovery has been busy with three athletes signing national letters of intent to compete on the next level. Marion Local senior Josie Bruns will stay closer to home to run at Bluffton University and New Knoxville's Preston Rutschilling will head to Tiffin University to join the soccer team. [More]