CELINA - For some kids, summer means no school for three blissful months, endless pool days and, if the weather is hot enough, slinging some good-old-fashioned lemonade.

This summer, many local young entrepreneurs have partaken in the sticky-sweet tradition, complete with making the beverage at home, setting up a stand and learning how to make a sale. [More]

  CELINA - The Mercer County Sheriff's Office arrested Joshua Cole shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday evening after he allegedly evaded their attempts to take him into custody earlier in the day on the south side of Grand Lake near Montezuma, triggering a search by K-9, drone and boat. [More]

KALIDA - Baseball is a game of opportunities.

For 6 ½ innings, St. Henry took full advantage, led Fairview and looked poised to repeat as ACME Baseball Congress tournament champions. However the Apaches also got an opportunity in the seventh, and with one swing completely changed the game. [More]

CELINA - Caitlyn Nuding, 20, Celina, was crowned Miss Lake Festival 2027 on a beautiful Sunday evening at the Harley C. Jones Memorial Rotary Amphitheater in the Bryson Park District.

Nuding is employed at Mercer Health as a certified nursing assistant and at Made Apparel and is pursuing a nursing degree at Wright State University-Lake Campus. [More]

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]