A fire occurred on the 100 block of North Fifth Street in downtown Upper Sandusky on Thursday afternoon. The Upper Sandusky Fire Department was able to extinguish the blaze in the back of the building after arriving within six minutes of being alerted by the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office.

FINDLAY — Upper Sandusky junior Brett Montgomery wasn’t sure if he wanted to hit a 2-iron or a driver off of the tee on the 16th hole of Red Hawk Run Golf Course during the district tournament Thursday.

Mohawk High School’s homecoming court is (front row, from left) Kinder Queen Kinsley McClain, Kinder King Bentley Brause; (middle row) freshman Madelyn Dickman, junior Alexis Loose, seniors Aubrey Margraf, Paige Young and Molly Danner, sophomore Marah Gillig;

Cory-Rawson snapped Upper Sandusky’s three-match winning streak with a 4-2 victory in a boys North Central Ohio Soccer Association match Wednesday evening. The Hornets (3-5-4, 1-2-1 NCOSA) outscored the Rams (5-6-2, 0-2-1 NCOSA) 2-1 in each half.

VAN BUREN — Gabby Gearhart scored barely six minutes into the match and that was enough for Van Buren to stay tied atop the girls North Central Ohio Soccer Association standings with a 1-0 victory against Riverdale on Wednesday.

FOREST — A benefit is being held this weekend in support of a Forest woman who is battling cancer. Brittany Dyer, 29, a single mother of four, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma stage II on July 9 and is undergoing chemotherapy until January.

Carey High School’s homecoming court includes (front row, from left) Kayla Bays, Sydney Arend, Hannah Lonsway, Sara Norden, Aimee Troiano; (back row) Jordan Dasher, Will Faber, Casey Crawford, Griffin Summit and Adam Hackworth.

BUCYRUS — Even after letting an 11-point deficit slip in the second set, dropping the third and fourth sets and letting the decisive fifth set carry beyond 15 points, another opportunity for redemption awaited the Carey volleyball team.

Buckeye Central finished strong to erase a nine-point third-set deficit in a 25-16, 25-15, 25-16 sweep of Upper Sandusky in Northern 10 Athletic Conference volleyball play Tuesday night.

The Upper Sandusky Community Library’s STEAMpunks group met for the first time since summer break on Monday. The first meeting was Halloween-related, with all participants carving their own take-home shrunken heads made out of skinned potatoes on a stick.