CAREY — Carey junior Tanner May is already the youngest Carey wrestler to win 100 matches. He also is the first district champion, two-time state placer and three-time state qualifier in the coaching tenure of Carey wrestling coach Ryan Pratt.

Monday afternoon, students ages 11-15 gathered together at the Upper Sandusky Community Library to learn about coping skills in a program called “Keeping It R.E.A.L.: refuse, explain, avoid and leave.” The Wyandot County Mentoring Program and the Upper Sandusky Community Library partnered together to put on the 10-week program, which will take place from 3-4 p.m. for the next nine Mondays at the library.

SYCAMORE — In a sibling rivalry, Morgan Price has a chance to get an edge on his older brothers. The Mohawk junior is the third of his brothers to qualify for the state tournament, and he is hoping to become the first of them to place when he heads to Columbus this weekend.

Founders and long time members of the Wyandot County Pheasants Forever chapter were recognized Saturday in celebration of the club’s 25th anniversary at the annual banquet, raffle and auction held at the Upper Sandusky OH No. 83 Elks Lodge.

KANSAS — With a dominant performance all weekend, Tanner May became Carey’s first district champion in a least a couple of decades on Saturday. May pinned Norwalk St. Paul’s Camden Caizzo in 2:35 in the 182-pound first-place match in the Division III district tournament at Lakota and will be making his third state appearance. Mohawk’s Morgan Price also is headed to state as a fourth-place finisher at 145 pounds, and the Warriors’ Caden Gurney is a state alternate after taking fifth place at 132 pounds.

NORWALK — Sure, the 2018-19 wrestling season may have ended sooner than three members of the Upper Sandusky wrestling team hoped it would. But the improvements they made as the season progressed, along with the fact they will all return next season, are what Upper Sandusky coach Noah Blankenship reflected on at the conclusion of the second day of the Division II district wrestling tournament Saturday at Norwalk.

BLUFFTON — Riverdale is celebrating like its 1987. The Falcons won their first boys basketball sectional championship in 32 years with a 50-28 blowout of Leipsic in a Division IV sectional final game Friday at Bluffton University.

For the past two weeks, first-graders at Union Elementary School have been writing and rehearsing plays put on by each of the first grade classrooms as part of a grant program. Principal Janine McMillan explained that the grant with CATCO, a Columbus based theater company, was written by a parent and first-grade teachers and is provided through the Ohio Arts Council.

As part of a series of informal meet and greets, new Ohio Department of Agriculture Director Dorothy Pelanda (pictured) speaks at the Gottfried Nature Center Friday. Pelanda introduced herself and shared the focus of the Ohio Department of Agriculture with attendees. She answered questions and listened to concerns shared by the audience, which ranged from Ohio’s water quality to laws …

Area churches turned their attention toward church safety Thursday night at an Upper Sandusky Area Ministerial Association seminar, led by the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office, focused on church safety and security.