BUCYRUS — Wynford students return to several new changes today on their first day of school for the 2019-2020 school year. Among those changes, are new faces on the teaching staff that are ready to help make the year a success.

Wyandot County farmers and their families were given a chance to think about anything but paperwork and the weather Tuesday with a Farmer’s Night Off event in the Masters’ Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds. The event, organized by Wyandot County Commissioner Bill Clinger, area crop insurance companies and Pastor Jay Scott, was viewed as a way to give back to area farmers after a devastating amount of spring rainfall caused heavy losses this year.

CAREY — Carey’s Juliana Boes wasn’t sure what to expect. Having run on the Carey girls track team, she was familiar with distance running, but wasn’t sure how she would do running a 5K in her first high school cross country meet at the Upper Sandusky Icebreaker Invitational on Tuesday at Harrison Smith Park.

SYCAMORE — Tiffin Columbian rallied from a two-set deficit to knock off Mohawk in its volleyball season opener 18-25, 12-25, 25-20, 25-22, 21-19 on Tuesday night at Mohawk. “What a great high school volleyball match,” Mohawk coach Eric Hoover said.

Upper Sandusky Mayor Scott Washburn addressed rival village Carey’s recent prank on the city at Monday’s Upper Sandusky City Council meeting. In advance of Saturday’s Battle of the Badges softball game between Upper Sandusky fire and police departments against Carey’s fire and police departments, representatives from Carey raised a Carey flag on the Upper Sandusky Municipal Building’s flagpole, Washburn reported.

Upper Sandusky High School will have a new traffic pattern for student pick-up and drop-off when classes begin Thursday. Superintendent Laurie Vent said at Monday evening’s school board meeting traffic around the school at those times in the past has been difficult.

The Upper Sandusky volleyball team picked up its first win of the season by beating Shelby 25-23, 14-25, 25-23, 25-20 on Monday night at Upper Sandusky. The Rams (1-1) took an early lead in the first set before Shelby (0-2) rallied ahead. Upper Sandusky then made a run for a 23-19 lead. The Whippets tied it before the Rams scored the final two points to take a 1-0 lead.

The Carey midget cheerleading team recently took first place at Holgate. Team members are (front row, from left) Logan Fredritz, Allison Niederkohr, McKinnley Kessler, Leah Ricker;

The Carey tiny cheerleading team recently took first place at Holgate. Team members are (front row, from left) Evelyn Crawford, Ellie McLaughlin, Rossi Ward, Emersyn Plott, Palmer Walter;

In movie production, location is everything. When Shawshank Redemption location manager and production supervisor Kokayi Ampah and his department of scouts set out to find locations for filming, they had a 30-mile radius from the film’s primary location, the Ohio State Reformatory, to find the perfect spaces to bring the movie to life.