An Upper Sandusky couple revealed the gender of their first child in a unique way Saturday afternoon. Keith and Elizabeth Vehrs have been married for nearly three years, and found out they were having a boy when local crop dusting pilot Matthew Arnold of Tactical Agriculture LLC (TACAG) dropped a spray of blue mist from his plane during their gender reveal party.

The most challenging thing about the spring this far has been the weather, but it finally took a turn for the better just in time for Saturday’s Swankhouse Invitational at Upper Sandusky. Both the Rams boys and girls finished third, while the short-handed Mohawk boys and girls team both came in eighth. Oak Harbor captured the boys and girls championships.

The 2003 Mohawk state championship softball team was inducted into the Wyandot Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday night at the Masters’ Building.

Nonprofit retirement communities celebrated their best and brightest Thursday afternoon with the Leading Age Ohio Northwest Stars banquet. The event was hosted at Fairhaven Community in Upper Sandusky.

An Upper Sandusky police officer had his last day on the force Friday. Officer Allen Foust, a 21-year veteran of the Upper Sandusky Police Department, will officially retire on June 2, but with over a month of vacation days saved up, Friday was his last day with boots on the ground.

CAREY — Trey Bame gave up just one hit in six innings and improved to 6-0 while Carey won for the 10th time in 10 games this year with a 9-0 victory against Buckeye Central in Northern 10 Athletic Conference baseball action Friday.

BUCYRUS — Upper Sandusky exploded in the late innings to beat Bucyrus, 15-4, in a Northern 10 Athletic Conference baseball game Friday. The Rams (7-6, 4-4 N10) scored once in the third inning, three times in the fourth inning, five times in the fifth inning and six times in the sixth inning.

BUCYRUS — Wynford Local Schools has selected an architecture firm for its new high school and middle school buildings. After the Wynford Board of Education meeting Thursday, Superintendent Fred Fox revealed the district had chosen Buehrer Group Architecture out of Maumee as the architecture firm for the new high school and middle school.

Union Elementary School hosted a science fair for first-grade students Thursday evening in the gym.

A massive oversized load came through downtown Upper Sandusky Thursday morning, escorted down Wyandot Avenue by the Ohio State Highway Patrol, several other vehicles testing for clearance and even men walking on foot.