Area non-profits and businesses brought their heads together Wednesday morning to share social media tips and strategies during a social media roundtable at the Upper Sandusky Community Library. The event featured representatives from the Upper Fantasy of Lights, the USCL, the Bucyrus Public Library, Wyandot Memorial Hospital, the Wyandot County Historical Society, Time Staffing, Marion Technical College, Angeline School and Industries, Quest Federal Credit Union and more.

CAREY — As a junior at Carey High School, Denise Dennis could have been in study hall. Instead, for one semester, she assisted Carey Elementary students by reading to them, practicing math facts and helping them with homework.

The Wyandot County Chamber of Commerce’s golf outing title sponsor First Citizens National Bank elected to donate 10% of the funds from the annual golf outing to United Way of Wyandot County on Wednesday.

With heat index values rising to 100 and above over the next few days, cooling stations are opening in the area for residents who do not have air conditioning. Trinity Evangelical United Methodist Church, 108 Malabar Drive, Upper Sandusky, is open today, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The atrium will be open for all who need it and water will be available. Snacks will not be provided, but residents may bring their own. Residents also are invited to bring books and other entertainment with them.

Jasper Musgrave (left) assists scientist Cameron Lightfoot with a chemical experiment during the summer reading program of the Forest-Jackson Public Library.

DEFIANCE — The heart of summer is here, and with it, the height of construction season on area highways. Ohio’s highway network is maintained through consistent attention, making work zones a necessity. Reminding motorists to give workers within those zones the consideration and level of safety needed to perform their work was the focus of an event Tuesday, July 9 with representatives of the Ohio Department of Transportation, the Ohio Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust, and the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Defiance post.

The Wall That Heals, a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Replica travels through Upper Sandusky Tuesday on its way to Marion with a huge procession of motorcycles (pictured above) and a police escort (pictured below) that stopped traffic along East Wyandot Avenue for several minutes.

When 2016 Upper Sandusky graduate Corrie Knapp was diagnosed with diabetes at age 11, she was lucky to be able to have a support system in one of her best friends since preschool, Emma Smith. The two, now 21, attended a camp for children with Type 1 diabetes together when they were 12. Knapp explained that campers were encouraged to bring along camp buddies as support. After the camp experience, which the two didn’t like very much because of the long drive, Knapp and Smith discussed the need for a camp closer to home.

REYNOLDSBURG — The Ohio Department of Agriculture, in coordination with USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, has detected sudden oak death caused by Phytophthora ramorum on rhododendron plants shipped to Walmart and Rural King stores throughout the state. Both retailers have agreed to initiate a voluntary recall of plants from their stores.

Daniel Pollock splashes water at the splash pad during the Splash Pad Fun Day Tuesday at Bicentennial Park in Upper Sandusky.