Dana Haubert and Nicholas Mazarek, of Swanton, exchanged wedding vows Oct. 14, 2017, at Transfiguration of the Lord Catholic Church, Upper Sandusky. Michael Dundurand officiated the 1:30 p.m. ceremony.

Nonprofit retirement communities celebrated their best and brightest Thursday afternoon with the Leading Age Ohio Northwest Stars banquet. The event was hosted at Fairhaven Community in Upper Sandusky.

An Upper Sandusky police officer had his last day on the force Friday. Officer Allen Foust, a 21-year veteran of the Upper Sandusky Police Department, will officially retire on June 2, but with over a month of vacation days saved up, Friday was his last day with boots on the ground.

CAREY — Trey Bame gave up just one hit in six innings and improved to 6-0 while Carey won for the 10th time in 10 games this year with a 9-0 victory against Buckeye Central in Northern 10 Athletic Conference baseball action Friday.

BUCYRUS — Upper Sandusky exploded in the late innings to beat Bucyrus, 15-4, in a Northern 10 Athletic Conference baseball game Friday. The Rams (7-6, 4-4 N10) scored once in the third inning, three times in the fourth inning, five times in the fifth inning and six times in the sixth inning.

CAREY — A 12-run inning, an inning in which all nine batters on the Carey softball team nearly batted around twice, set the tone for the Blue Devils’ latest victory. The Blue Devils also scored four runs in the second inning and two in the fourth on their way to an 18-2 victory over Buckeye Central on Friday at Water Works Park.

BUCYRUS — Freshman Caleigh Rister continued her dominant start to her high school career by striking out 12 in Bucyrus’ 9-0 shutout of Upper Sandusky in Northern 10 Athletic Conference softball play Friday. Rister (4-2) gave up just five hits and did not issue any walks.

Valerie Schalk (right), an RN at Wyandot Memorial Hospital, recently trained the staff of the Upper Sandusky Community Library in the use of an automatic external defibrillator device.

Tickets are on sale for the 2018 St. Peter Festival quilt, “One Block Wonder.” It measures 84-by-90 inches.

BUCYRUS — Wynford Local Schools has selected an architecture firm for its new high school and middle school buildings. After the Wynford Board of Education meeting Thursday, Superintendent Fred Fox revealed the district had chosen Buehrer Group Architecture out of Maumee as the architecture firm for the new high school and middle school.