CAREY — Construction has begun on the new Taco Bell restaurant located off of South Vance Street near the U.S. 23 interchange. “They have broken ground,” Carey Assistant Village Administrator Nathan Curtis said.

CAREY — At each station of the scavenger hunt at the Space Exploration Day event Tuesday at the Dorcas Carey Public Library, students were one step closer to winning a prize. And every time they found a station, they acquired more knowledge about the solar system.

SANDUSKY — The Northern 10 Athletic Conference showed what a good baseball league it was during the season, and it did again Tuesday night. With a team made up mostly of N10 players, the Wyandot/Crawford County All-Star team held off Richland County 6-4 in one of the District 9 All-Star Baseball Games on Tuesday night at Sports Force Park in Sandusky.

BUCYRUS — In his report at Monday’s board of education meeting, Wynford Superintendent Fred Fox said the Wynford building project is three weeks behind due to recent rain. Fox said that the builders are currently working on compacting the soil where the new building will sit and putting down the building’s pad.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — The Riverdale Board of Education agreed to enter into a one-year food service management contract with Nutrition Food Group during its monthly meeting Monday night. The fixed-fee $20,000 program is set to take effect July 1 and end June 30, 2020. It was approved 4-1 by the board, with President Michelle Courtad casting the dissenting vote.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Joseph Sherrieb was the overall winner of the annual Mark Gillfillan Memorial 5K held Friday at Riverdale. The 25-year-old Sherrieb finished in 18:29.2 to beat 14-year-old Preston Perkins by 13.4 seconds. Perkins finished in 18:42.6 to win the male 10-14 division.

Above: Derek Clark (left) attempts a layup over the defense of Jaxon Passet in the second annual Robby Lee 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament on Saturday on the Robby Lee Memorial Courts at Bicentennial Park. The event raised about $1,000 for the Robert P. Lee Memorial Scholarship Fund.

WHARTON — For 24 hours, the Wyandot Area Ham Operators Organization, also known as WAHOO hosted a field day this past weekend at the Wharton village park to hone its members’ skills and to try to make contact with as many people as possible.

Local art students had the opportunity to showcase their work Sunday afternoon at Bonnie Wolfe’s 2019 art exhibit in rural Upper Sandusky. Wolfe teaches approximately 45 students and had inks, oils, acrylics, mosaics and watercolors on display in her home.

Two or three months ago in Columbus, Michael Lohmann received unexpected news. After learning his sister Alicia Fray was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, Lohmann was looking for a way to pay for her medical bills and raise money for cancer research as well.