With in-person classes canceled for four consecutive school days, teachers got creative with some of their lessons this week. Meg Mauger gave students a hands-on engineering challenge Tuesday while ...

The Commercial Review featured coverage of the Portland Area Chamber of Commerce annual meeting and awards banquet during which Jay County Development Corporation executive director Bob Quadrozzi was ...

Betty Meyers, age 90, of Celina, Ohio, and former Portland resident passed away Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in Heritage Manor in Minster, Ohio. She was born in Bryant on Jan. 16, 1936, the daughter of ...

Jay County (15-7, 5-1 Allen County Athletic Conference) eclipsed Heritage’s total score in each of the first two quarters, while the home team managed just 10 points by the intermission.

Althea Millsap, age 95, of Portland passed away on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in Albany Healthcare and Rehabilitation.

For the 50th anniversary of the opening of Jay County High School, the Patriots will honor those from the very first ...

The nationwide event, hosted in National Harbor, Maryland, kicks off Monday and continues through Feb. 5. It serves as the ...

Jay County’s unemployment rate for December came in at 2.5%, the lowest in more than two and a half years, according to estimates Indiana Department of Workforce Development released Wednesday.

But for every winner, there has to be a loser. On that particular night, I also had to come face-to-face with the devastation of a Winchester team that had fought tooth and nail to erase a significant ...

While winds that had caused problems with drifting snow covering roads that were previously cleared have calmed down, frigid temperatures continued. Wind chills reached as low as minus 16 degrees this ...

Carlton “Ram” Rhoades, age 83, of Fort Recovery, passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. He was born on Oct. 19, 1942, in Greenville, Ohio, to the late Hiram and Mary (Cline) Rhoades.

An opportunity to learn about heart health comes next month. Mercer Health will host Community Health Education: Heart Disease Diagnosis and Treatment at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at its Marion Campus, ...