Fort Recovery News

Fort Recovery's Samantha Tobe, left, leads Versailles' Jordan Smith, middle at the Division III Regional cross country meet at Troy on Saturday.

Voters in the St. Marys City Schools district ousted an incumbent board member in one of five contested school board races held in the Grand Lake area on Tuesday.

Dennis Hecht was named Rockford's Citizen of the Year 2009. On hand at the chamber of commerce banquet were village, county and state dignitaries such as state Rep.

Fort Recovery school's board of education took the first step this week toward accepting funds from the Ohio School Facilities Commission for a school construction project.

The husband of a fired Mercer County Elections Office staffer allegedly tried to leave the board of elections' office with voter registration documents that he had requested to view this week.

To Gov. Ted Strickland, the choice is simple now that the Ohio Supreme Court has derailed his slot machine plan and left the state with an $851 million hole in its K-12 education budget.

It seems to me that Halloween is as good a time as any to relate a story that a tipster just passed on to me.

Sheriff Jeff Grey says records taken from the County Board of Elections have been returned.

Dan Brackman, a former Fort Recovery FFA member, is a finalist for the National FFA proficiency award in diversified livestock, one of just four people chosen from across the nation to compete.

Students investigate a farm field on Coldwater Creek Road during the 7th annual Mercer County Soils Judging Contest.

Fort Recovery's Hayden Pottkotter follows through on his tee shot during the Indians' trimatch on Monday at The Mercer County Elks.

Logan Deitsch, St. Marys, measures the slope in a farm field on Coldwater Creek Road as Kara Uhlenhake, Coldwater, records her findings during the 7th annual Mercer County Soils Judging Contest.

Fort Recovery's Brian Keller, with ball, runs between a pair of Minster defenders during their Midwest Athletic Conference contest on Friday night.

Pencil and paper could be a thing of the past for students in grades three through six in St.

On Nov. 1, 2008 friends and family gathered for the uniting in marriage of Stacy Leigh Sowder and Matthew James Zehringer.

Three Hispanic men were robbed at gunpoint early Friday at a farmhouse on state Route 705, roughly halfway between Sidney and Fort Recovery.

A 44-year-old Mercer County Jail inmate facing the likelihood of prison died Thursday afternoon after he reportedly hung himself with a bed sheet.

Celina City Schools are working to get technology into the hands of its students.

Production agriculture is under attack, State Rep. Jim Zehringer, R-Fort Recovery, told a large group attending an agriculture breakfast meeting in Celina on Thursday.

Maybe the black dog smelled food or heard voices from the house west of Fort Recovery near the state line.