CELINA - The only thing more certain about August than hot afternoons is the first day of school. Whether it was the 19th or the 26th or somewhere in between, that day has now arrived for all area schools.

WAPAKONETA - The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced Friday that troopers will conduct an OVI checkpoint in Auglaize County Saturday evening. The OSHP will announce the exact location of the checkpoint this morning.

COLUMBUS - The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Securities and the Shelby County Prosecutor's Office announced Friday that a Shelby County Grand Jury has indicted Chandra Snapp of Jackson Center on 50 counts stemming from alleged incidents involving at least nine investors since 2023.

CELINA - Celina took everything Wapakoneta had to offer on Friday night, and never backed down.

And once the Bulldogs got the lead, they were adamant about not giving up.

Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry
and Bruce Monnin

St. Marys scored the final 21 points of the game to move to 2-0 on the season and open Western Buckeye League play with a 35-14 win over Bath on Friday night in Bath Township.

FORT RECOVERY - If the Fort Recovery Indians had some plays back, they could have completed a comeback Friday night.

Untimely mistakes and penalties prevented the Indians from finishing the job as Allen East held on for a 28-21 victory in a battle till the bitter end at Barrenbrugge Park.

GREENVILLE - The case against a 22-year-old volunteer firefighter accused of killing his employer and setting her rural Ansonia home on fire in April has stalled in Darke County Common Pleas Court, as two of the last scheduled hearings were both continued at the last second.

COLUMBUS - A development company partly owned by FirstEnergy's transmission unit on Tuesday revealed plans for a major new power transmission and distribution corridor running across western Ohio through Darke, Shelby and Miami counties on its way to Columbus.

CELINA - A 51-year-old Arcanum man accused of several sex crimes that include having sexual contact with five juveniles under the age of 13 over a 10

ST. MARYS - St. Marys' performance at the beginning of sets wasn't pretty Thursday.

But the end result looked pretty good.

St. Marys picked up it

NEW BREMEN - New Bremen kept up its flying start to the season as the Cardinals battled through some early struggles to sweep Crestview 25-18, 25-12, 25-14in volleyball Thursday night at The Nest and move to 3-0 on the young season.

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Celina opened Western Buckeye League volleyball action on the road at Wapakoneta, a team the Bulldogs defeated twice last season.

COLDWATER - Mercer Health's total current assets are up about $4 million from last year, due in part to hospital assistance payments the hospital system received from the government, the hospital's board of governors learned at their regular meeting Wednesday.

"Fellows you sound like a bunch of hogs eating charcoal." The speaker was Harold Lutz, now of Mendon and Mercer County's chief deputy auditor. The pl

CELINA - A 59-year-old Celina man was sentenced to around six months in jail this week for drug possession charges out of Mercer County Common Pleas Court.

The Mercer County Commissioners announced that the Celina-Coldwater Bike Path will be closed to the public Sept. 8-11 (Tuesday-Friday) while contract

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  By JOE SCHATZ and GARY R. RASBERRY
sports@dailystandard.com

After an opening week where the league went 6-4 overall, the Western Buckeye League gets underway on Friday with a full slate of games.

  The high school football season has begun and with it comes our initial numbers to analyze.

Over the previous 17 years, the Western Buckeye League

  The Midwest Athletic Conference, 9-1 in last week's first week of non-league play, gets another week of prep before entering the conference battles.

Among the matchups is a battle of 1-0 teams that were a combined 1-19 last season as Parkway hosts Delphos Jefferson.

Impact Players

Offense

Noah Talmadge, RB, Celina

19 carries for 132 yards and a touchdown in the Bulldogs' 38-35 win over St. Henry.

CELINA - Celina senior Parker Wynk continues to show gradual improvement after sustaining a serious spinal injury during last week's football game against St. Henry, his family shared in recent posts on social media.

MENDON - Councilors in Mendon voted Tuesday night to allow the village to proceed with misdemeanor charges against two property owners in Celina Municipal Court, a step councilors had threatened to take for over a year.

COLUMBUS - Ohio's unemployment rate fell slightly in July to 3.4% from 3.6% in June, while unemployment in both Mercer and Auglaize counties followed suit and fell roughly a quarter of a percent in July.

COLUMBUS - Ohio 211, in partnership with the Ohio Department of Children and Youth, announced Tuesday the completion of a statewide expansion, bringing 211 services to all 88 Ohio counties and ensuring every Ohioan can access local community resources, no matter where they live.

Mercer County Engineer Jim Wiechart announcing Tuesday that Frysinger Road between U.S. Route 33 and Shelley Road will be closed beginning Monday, Au

CELINA - Just days after St. Henry and Celina met in a classic on the gridiron, the two schools met on the hardwood of Celina's Intermediate School in volleyball. An early run paved the way for the visiting Redskins, who swept Celina 25-9, 25-21, 25-14 to move to 2-2 on the year.

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Fort Recovery improved to 2-0 on the season in sweeping St. Marys 25-20, 25-8, 25-21 in a matchup of Grand Lake area teams at Grand Lake Health System Court in St. Marys.