Wyandot County residents celebrated the holiday with festivities of parades, water wars and fireworks.

Construction has begun for the addition to the maintenance building at Harrison Smith Park in Upper Sandusky. The Parks Department adjusted its budget for two years to pay for the building. Daily Chief-Union/Brian Hemminger

CAREY — Coincidentally, the same year that Amber Nash was going to be a freshman on the CHS girls track team, her mother, Tricia Nash, was given an opportunity she didn’t anticipate, but was grateful to receive. Tricia Nash helped with the hurdlers, sprinters and sprint relays as a volunteer coach of the CHS girls track team for seven years, beginning in 2007, a time when her niece and her cousin’s daughter were both running the hurdles for the Blue Devils.

Wyanstock 2018 will take place at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds Friday evening and all day on Saturday. The fifth annual local music festival features 13 music acts and is put on by the Wyandot County Young Professionals.

Bookie’s Lawn Service won the Junior League fastpitch softball tournament championship with a 10-6 victory against The Andersons at Harrison Smith Park, rallying from a 6-5 deficit with five runs in its final two at-bats.

McCUTCHENVILLE — Members of the Veterans Heritage Foundation of Wyandot County spent part of Monday repairing the monuments of local veterans at St. John Cemetery in McCutchenville. The monument of Civil War veteran William Murphy was on its side and in pieces when the group arrived, but it was standing straight by the time the group was finished.

After nearly a year of searching, the unmarked Wyandot County Infirmary Cemetery has likely been found. Members of the Ohio Federation of K-9 Search Teams brought specially-trained dogs to the property of the Wyandot County Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center over the weekend.

Open Door Resource Center Executive Director Scott Moore gets doused with color by volunteer Ron Bailey Saturday morning at ColorBlast 2018, which was held at Harrison Smith Park in Upper Sandusky.

PITTSBURGH — An Upper Sandusky graduate has gone the extra mile in an attempt to cure her two-year-old nephew. With nephew Gavin Giacalone in need of a liver transplant to potentially cure his rare genetic disorder, GM3 Synthase Deficiency, aunt Michelle Shark (formerly Webster), a 2011 graduate of Upper Sandusky High School, didn’t hesitate.

FOREST — The Forest Tree Town Festival, which will run July 6-8 at Gormley Park, will honor one of its most valued neighbors. Clayton Bash was named the grand marshal of the festival for 2018. His family farm abuts the village’s Gormley Park to the east and he has been a part of the Forest community his entire life.