CAREY — A hay fire near a residence in the northwest corner of the county quickly was extinguished Thursday night, according to a report from the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities responded to a call for a possible house fire at 16968 Ohio 103, Ridge Township, around 8:24 p.m., the report states.

Wyandot County Commissioners are looking for estimates to complete lighting work on the courthouse roof. Outside lights to illuminate the four clock faces on the courthouse dome are the main focus of the project.

Wyandot County Environmental Health Director Jeff Ritchey met with multiple individuals to receive public input on the health board’s plans for a septic tank operational maintenance and permitting program.

CAREY — Mayor Armand Getz and Law Director Emily Beckley are resigning, effective April 1. Getz explained his intent to step down Monday at the conclusion of a 35-minute discussion about prayer that opened Carey’s regular council meeting. Council chambers were packed Monday as legislators heard from community members regarding a recent recommendation to cease praying before meetings.

Upper Sandusky city officials spoke out against a proposed state takeover of local business tax collections. “They want us to pay someone to do what we have one person doing already,” Mayor Scott Washburn said during Monday night’s city council meeting. “This is just another instance where (the state needs) to stay out of it. “It wasn’t too long ago that (the state) was not interested in doing collections at all, yet here we are,” Washburn added.

The Upper Sandusky Board of Education met at East Elementary School on Monday for a regular meeting and tour of the building. During the meeting, the board approved a resolution to receive an annual donation from Greater Good Egg Co. LLC, a new branch of Kalmbach Feeds. The community reinvestment area application said that 75 percent of the real property abatement over 10 years, which is a tax break typically given to new businesses by municipalities, will be donated to the district.

Lilly Payton, 7, of Upper Sandusky, won first place in the tiny-level individual competition and won her division among all tiny-level competitors at the 2017 AmeriCheer and AmeriDance International Competition during the weekend at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World in Kissimmee, Florida.

CAREY — March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in Wyandot County. Each year, the county Board of Developmental Disabilities sets up a business or community leader with a simulated disability experience in an effort to raise awareness. Carey Area Chamber of Commerce Director Cassie Carlson spent Friday morning doing her job in a wheelchair.

After three days of trial and almost two hours of deliberation, a jury assembled in Wyandot County Common Pleas Court found Benjamin M. Gamble, of Upper Sandusky, guilty of third- and first-degree felonies Thursday. Gamble was found guilty of possession of chemicals for the manufacturing of drugs and complicity to the illegal manufacturing of drugs with a juvenile specification for his part in a methamphetamine lab operation in at 1049 N. Warpole St., Lot 50 last May.

Gov. John Kasich’s proposed biennium budget continues a “troubling trend of eroding local funding,” Angeline Superintendent Todd Dilley said. Dilley highlighted parts of Kasich’s proposed 2018-19 budget that will have a direct impact on the Wyandot County Board of Developmental Disabilities during Thursday night’s meeting.