Over 400 Upper Sandusky Middle School students paid it forward with some good deeds Tuesday morning for the second annual Robby Lee Day of Service. Starting at around 8:45 a.m., every single sixth, seventh and eighth grade student at Upper Sandusky Middle School was either helping rake leaves at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds or putting up Christmas decorations at the Wyandot County Museum.

SYCAMORE — Mohawk Local School District will have more money to work with beginning in 2019 after a report from the treasurer at the Mohawk Board of Education meeting Tuesday. Mohawk Treasurer Rhonda Feasel reported income tax for October 2018 is higher by over $31,000 compared to October of last year and is up over $118,000 overall compared to 2017.

One of the most beneficial Career Development Events that FFA students can be involved in is job interview. The job interview CDE prepares students for future career interviews.

KENTON — American Farmland Trust, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service of Ohio and the Hardin Soil Water Conservation District have joined together to announce three women-dedicated learning circle sessions in northern Ohio.

BUCYRUS — The Crawford Soil and Water Conservation District is hosting a meeting for area agricultural producers interested in the current status and latest technologies of applying nutrients to cropland from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at the Wayside Family Life Center, 2341 Kerstetter Road, Bucyrus.

Upper Sandusky Middle Schoolers Hayden Pahl, Cassidy Breidenbach, Kaleb Byrum, Alyse Swartz and many more helped set up Christmas decorations at the Wyandot County Museum this morning as part of the Robby Lee Day of Service.

Upper Sandusky City Council discussed the $23.7 million bid for a new water reclamation facility during its regularly scheduled meeting Monday. When asked how the project will be funded, City Auditor Mark Droll said the project will be paid for out of the wastewater treatment fund.

CAREY — Carey Village Council on Monday untabled and approved an emergency ordinance approving, authorizing and directing Village Administrator Roy Johnson to enter into a contract with American Municipal Power, the vendor for the automated meter information system.

With a price tag of nearly $2 million for all of the district’s buildings to get air conditioning, the Upper Sandusky Exempted Village School District is considering other options to keep students a little bit cooler, including shortening the school year.

PARADISE, Calif. — As the huge Camp Fire roared through Paradise, California, Merleen Barnes waited by her phone in Kenton to hear an update on her sister and family who were directly in the path of the deadly flames. “Kathy had sent me a video, but then we lost communications with them for about three hours,” Barnes said. “Things were a little tense.”