BUCYRUS — The Rotary Club of Bucyrus is set to host Rural-Urban Day on March 14 at The Pickwick Place in Bucyrus. The event features program speakers The Families of Pickwick Place.

The first step in preparing the Wyandot Soil and Water Conservation District annual plan of work for 2018 will be SWCD’s participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture local work group meeting to be held with the Natural Resource Conservation Service and Farm Service Agency.

Upper Sandusky residents and business owners will see a steady increase in their sewer rates for at least the next two years. City Council on Monday night unanimously passed the first reading of an ordinance to increase the rates by $1 each year through 2019.

Jeremy R. Weaver, Carey, was warned for two headlights required on U.S. 23 at Bridgestone the evening of Jan. 26. James R. Drakos, Gahanna, was cited for failure to move or slow down for an emergency vehicle on U.S. 23 at CH 121 the night of Jan. 26.

Bob Beitler receives the Lifetime Service Award from the Forest Community Improvement Corporation for his volunteer work in the community and his dedication to Forest.

Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office A deputy responded to an unruly juvenile call in the 200 block of West 10th Street, Sycamore, the afternoon of Feb. 1.

Residents at Westbrook Assisted Living of Upper Sandusky recently gathered with family for their annual Mix and Mingle hor’dourves contest that included a magician who performed table-to-table magic tricks for their enjoyment. Submitted photo  

Rosie Jordan doesn’t get out much, but the 85-year-old Upper Sandusky resident went on the most talked about date in Wyandot County on Friday, with a little help from four local businesses. Jordan’s post-Valentine’s Day dinner date with Daily Chief-Union staff writer Avery T. Jennings capped off the newspaper’s first Win a Date contest.

New capabilities now are available to businesses located in the Columbus-Toledo Midway Industrial Park on the northeast side of Upper Sandusky. AT&T officially recognized the business park as being fiber ready Friday in the Upper Sandusky council chambers.

The decommissioning of the reservoir at Killdeer Plains is set to be continued in the next week, according to a release from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources office in Findlay. The drainage was deemed necessary by ODNR due to the deterioration of the embankment that surrounds the reservoir that was discovered during a 2005 assessment of the reservoir.