This spring, 32 students from the Upper Sandusky FFA competed in the State Spring Career Development Event Contests (CDEs). Upper Sandusky had seven different contest areas that students participated in: agronomy, equine management, general livestock, nature interpretation, poultry, wildlife management and dairy cattle.

Shelley Shepard Gray, a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, informed an audience about the books she has written in her career during a special session on Monday at the Dorcas Carey Public Library.

Ariel Nearhood (left) spoke on behalf of the Retired Seniors Volunteer Program (RSVP) senior corps during a Wyandot County Council on Aging event Monday at the Mohawk Community Library.

A kids BB gun range was one of many attractions Saturday for the St. Peter School Fest Field Day event held at the Wyandot County Sportsman Club. The event featured a gun raffle, a still shoot competition, a sporting goods raffle and a visit from local wildlife like turtles.

Jameson Reile poses Saturday with his gold award for the middle school category of the tactile maze earned at the National Robotics Challenge in Marion. The Upper Sandusky Robotics Club faced stiff competition from 80 schools spread across 10 states and Armenia.

Warrior Athletics North had its first expo April 8. It will hold stunt clinics April 12, 19 and 26 and May 3 for anyone interested in trying out for All-Star cheer for the upcoming season.

MARION — Upper Sandusky area students from grades 5-12 competed Friday in the National Robotics Challenge inside Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Marion County Fairgrounds.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Heading into his freshman year of college, Riverdale High School graduate Jack Kelly hadn’t heard of the sport of ultimate frisbee. Six years later, before the start of the 2017 season, sitting in the O’Hare International Airport waiting to board a flight to San Antonio, Kelly noticed an email on his phone from the coach of the Madison Radicals, a professional ultimate frisbee team that competes in the Midwest Division of the American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL).

CAREY — When Easton Roark got his moment to come up with a big hit, he was ready. The senior lined a single to right field to score both the tying and game-winning runs Friday in Carey’s 7-6 victory against Wynford.

An Upper Sandusky native recently released her fourth book. The Rev. Elaine J. Clinger Sturtz, a 1977 graduate of Upper Sandusky, published “Living in the Different: The Passages Through Sorrow and Loss” through Declaration Press.