FOREST — World War II was calling the young men throughout the nation in the early 1944, and Stan Spath answer that call at the age of 17. With his friends leaving for the Army, Marines, Air Force and Navy, the high school junior was determined to join them. He thought hard about his options, Spath said.

Wyandot County Commissioner Bill Clinger speaks with NBC 24’s Gary Sensenstein about recent renovations to the Wyandot County Courthouse. A story about the improvements ran on the station’s 6 p.m. newscast Thursday. Daily Chief-Union/Avery T. Jennings

Wyandot County Rod and Gun Club member Eric Gottfried puts a large fish into the pond at Harrison Smith Park in Upper Sandusky on Thursday as children look on. Club members stocked the pond in preparation for their annual fishing derby from 8-11 a.m. Saturday for teens and children age 16 and younger. Submitted photo

Upper Sandusky’s boys basketball team has dropped to Division III as the OHSAA announced new divisional assignments for the 2017-18 winter sports seasons Thursday.

Upper Sandusky firefighters put out an engine fire on a car parked in the Wyandot Memorial Hospital emergency room parking lot Wednesday morning.

HARPSTER — Wyandot County Director of Environmental Health Jeff Ritchey was the featured speaker at the most recent mayors’ breakfast Tuesday morning. Ritchey spoke to the room of elected officials and representatives on the danger of mosquitoes and the diseases they may carry.

BUCYRUS — Three teachers with more than 100 years of combined experience recently completed their careers at Wynford. All of them elementary school teachers, Donna Auck, Ann Clinger and Glenda Leuthold retired at the end of the school year.