Upper cheerleader, 7, wins at international competition Lilly Payton, 7, of Upper Sandusky, won first place in the tiny-level individual competition and won her division among all tiny-level competitors at the 2017 AmeriCheer and AmeriDance International Competition during the weekend at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World in Kissimmee, Florida. Read More
Overtime decides All-Star game FOSTORIA — An extra minute of back-and-forth was needed to decide the 45th annual Fostoria Athletic Boosters East-West All-Star boys game Sunday. Van Buren’s Ryan Turner mustered a dunk at the buzzer to cap the West’s 127-121 comeback victory in overtime. Read More
Walton wins 5th Match Game title History was made last year in the Wyandot Match Game Invitational when Don McLaughlin became the first bowler to win two straight championships. It was made again this year in Sunday’s finals. Read More
Carey Chamber of Commerce director takes on simulated disability project CAREY — March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in Wyandot County. Each year, the county Board of Developmental Disabilities sets up a business or community leader with a simulated disability experience in an effort to raise awareness. Carey Area Chamber of Commerce Director Cassie Carlson spent Friday morning doing her job in a wheelchair. Read More
$30,000 donation Upper’s Winter Fantasy of Lights volunteers (back two rows) donate a $30,000 check to Wyandot County Home Health. The money was generated from proceeds from the month-long holiday light extravaganza at Harrison Smith Park in December. Daily Chief-Union/Chanda Neely Read More
Upper man guilty after meth trial After three days of trial and almost two hours of deliberation, a jury assembled in Wyandot County Common Pleas Court found Benjamin M. Gamble, of Upper Sandusky, guilty of third- and first-degree felonies Thursday. Gamble was found guilty of possession of chemicals for the manufacturing of drugs and complicity to the illegal manufacturing of drugs with a juvenile specification for his part in a methamphetamine lab operation in at 1049 N. Warpole St., Lot 50 last May. Read More
Skywarn training Ham radio operators, volunteer firefighters and law enforcement workers from around the area attend an annual Skywarn training Thursday evening at the Wyandot County Fairgounds dining hall. Read More
N10 runner-up The Mohawk sixth grade boys basketball team recently advanced to the finals of the Northern 10 Athletic Conference tournament in Bucyrus, losing to Colonel Crawford, 45-23. Read More
Video shows Upper man admitting to detectives he helped make meth An Upper Sandusky man admitted to investigators that he helped produce methamphetamine during a videotaped interview the jury watched during the second day of his trial Wednesday in Wyandot County Common Pleas Court. Benjamin M. Gamble, 26, is charged with a third-degree felony possession of chemicals for the manufacturing of drugs and a first-degree felony complicity to the illegal manufacture of drugs with a juvenile specification. Read More
Mohawk to present ‘Lucky Stiff’ SYCAMORE — Mohawk High School will present its spring musical, “Lucky Stiff,” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. “Lucky Stiff” centers on a regular Joe, Harry Witherspoon, working as a shoe salesman in England. He learns that he is about to inherit $6 million. Read More