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Upper Sandusky, OH Local news and sports for Wyandot County.
CAREY — The Carey Area Chamber of Commerce held its 18th annual dinner meeting Monday night at Moreno’s Casual Dining, headlined by newly elected Mayor Steve Smalley’s State of the Village address. “Well, another year has passed and despite the negative economic climate, we’re still maintaining equilibrium and even making a little forward progress,” Smalley [...]
The Upper Sandusky Safety Committee held a special meeting Monday afternoon to vote on the purchase of two new police cruisers and to hire a new full-time firefighter. “We held a special meeting to discuss the two items so city council can act on them next week,” safety committee Chairman Kyle McColly said. The committee [...]
The Wyandot County Commissioners were visited Monday by the newly hired administrator from the county Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Curtis O’Neal, as he nears completion of his first month on the job. He gave the commissioners an update on the financial report for December 2011 along with a new idea and how things have [...]
American Legion Post No. 225, Upper Sandusky, donated a total of total $9,747 in 2011. The funds went to veterans funerals and memorials ($536); high school scholarships ($2,000); Americanism awards ($401); Upper Sandusky Youth Baseball ($350); Boy Scout Troop No. 221 ($450); 2011 Boys State enrollment ($600); Marseilles Family Fest for the Great Ohio Bicycle [...]
Beckie Shuck, owner of Practically Perfect, started a group Facebook page last August as a way of getting rid of things around her house and ever since, people in the area have been taking advantage of it. The Wyandot County Online Garage Sales page, which is administered by Shuck and Ashley Webb Payton, gained almost [...]
NEVADA — From contemplating law school to the pulpit in Wyandot County, the journey life has taken for new Nevada Evangelical Lutheran Church pastor the Rev. Chelsea Spencer has been an interesting one. “I was going to be a lawyer,” Spencer, 27, said. “I got my B.A. in political science from Seton Hill in Greensburg, [...]
Wyandot County had a visitor from the far north in late December not named Kris Kringle, but rather “nyctea scandiaca,” or more commonly referred to as a snowy owl. With the changing climates this past year, Ohio in general witnessed a boom of the birds around its central and northern counties. “We had one in [...]
FOREST — Tom Neville was a volunteer firefighter in Forest, a midget football league coach for Riverdale and a full-time father before he came face-to-face with the recent challenges of his debilitating disease. “It is beyond words what I am going through right now,” Neville said. Neville, 37 was diagnosed with cauda equine syndrome, a [...]
SYCAMORE — Sycamore has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Ohio Public Works Commission to build a new water plant. Village Administrator Chuck Clark made the announcement during Tuesday night’s village council meeting. “We were approved for the grant,” Clark said. “Official word will come in late March, early April.” Clark will meet with [...]
The court has ruled an Upper Sandusky teenager accused of carrying a shotgun into Sunshine Insurance Agency and assaulting a corrections officer at the Wyandot County Jail is competent to stand trial. According to court documents filed Friday, Dr. Dale Rupple, of the Forensic Diagnostic Center, found Harley S.L. Swartz “has the capacity to understand [...]
