FOREST — When the Tree Town Festival steps off the largest parade in the county on July 7, it will be led by a couple known and endeared throughout the village of Forest. Bob and Sharon Beitler have been named this year’s grand marshals of the annual summer event.

FOREST — New games and experiences and some long-time favorites are will be featured at the Tree Town Festival at Gormley Park in Forest. The festival begins with the annual parade at 6:30 p.m. with opening ceremonies following at the park entrance on Mary Street.

A house on TH 103 was a total loss after a fire Tuesday afternoon, according to a Wyandot County Sheriff’s report. Jenny M. Bosch was not home when her residence was found engulfed in flames.

Upper Sandusky residents celebrate Fourth of July over the weekend by attending the fireworks display and the music festival Wyanstock.

A crash on U.S. 23 north of Upper Sandusky involving a semi-truck led to the death of a Findlay woman at approximately 10:30 Saturday night. Darlene A. Kujawa, 67, was transported by medical helicopter to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, where she succumbed to injuries suffered in the crash, according to a report by the Bucyrus Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

An anonymous caller to The Daily Chief-Union claimed the new ducks at Duck Pond Park are not wild and are permanent residents at the pond. The woman admitted she was the individual who put the ducks at the pond and took specific measures to ensure control.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — A former Riverdale Elementary teacher recently was indicted by a Hancock County grand jury on three counts of sexual battery against a student. Brooke L. Rosendale, 26, of Bloomdale, previously was a fifth-grade intervention specialist before resigning in March, according to Riverdale Board of Education minutes.

An additional tax for the Wyandot County Board of Developmental Disabilities will be on the November general election ballot. The Wyandot County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution for a 1.5-mill additional tax Tuesday.

HARPSTER — Two men were hospitalized after a crash involving a semi truck and a motorized bicycle late Thursday night on U.S. 23 near Ohio 294, according to the Bucyrus Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

An employee of an Upper Sandusky gun manufacturer has pleaded not guilty to felony weapons charges in a case in which police say they found two loaded handguns and a glass pipe with marijuana in a car he was driving during a traffic stop.