CELINA - Lake Facilities Authority officials approved spending $13,500 to treat the roughly 8-acre area of lake at the West Beach with alum in an effort to make it safe for swimming.

Alum neutralizes phosphorus, the favorite food of the toxin-producing blue-green algae in the lake. [More]

CELINA - The Mercer County Health District is coordinating planning and communication among local and regional partners to prepare for a potential peak in coronavirus cases.

Plans are in place to keep Mercer County residents safe and prepared during the pandemic, said Deb Scheer, district epidemiologist and director of emergency preparedness. [More]

CELINA - Many people are feeling the blues after being cut off from friends and family members under Ohio's stay-at-home order.

Grady Jackson of Celina was one of them as his birthday inched closer and closer, knowing this year he wouldn't be able to celebrate the special day with his pals due to social distancing guidelines. [More]

CELINA - Two more Mercer County residents have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the county to eight.

The new case is a woman from 30 to 40 years old who is self-isolating at home, according to the Mercer County Health District reports. [More]

CELINA - A 71-year-old Mercer County man became the first local person to die from the coronavirus, health officials reported.

Mercer County Health District officials announced the death in a news release on Friday evening. The man had been hospitalized and was the first person in the county to test positive for the virus. No further information about the man will be released to respect his family's privacy, according to the release. [More]

A group of buddies from Mercer County bonded by baseball head to Cincinnati annually for Major League Baseball Opening Day.

The group has grown old, but the tradition has not.

"We still act like little boys at their first Reds game every year, e [More]