CAREY — Mayor Armand Getz and Law Director Emily Beckley are resigning, effective April 1. Getz explained his intent to step down Monday at the conclusion of a 35-minute discussion about prayer that opened Carey’s regular council meeting. Council chambers were packed Monday as legislators heard from community members regarding a recent recommendation to cease praying before meetings.

State Rep. Wes Goodman (R-Cardington), fifth from left, met with government students from Mohawk, Riverdale, Upper Sandusky and Wynford high schools during the Wyandot County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner on Monday evening in the Masters Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds. Goodman was the keynote speaker. Daily Chief-Union/Chanda Neely  

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Being a mother is first for Maryann Holderman, and so she made the difficult decision to step down as Riverdale girls basketball coach Monday. With daughter Sydney headed to play basketball at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan, next year, Holderman no longer was going to have the time to be both the coach and mother she wanted to be. “The bottom line is I want to be able to go watch Sydney play,” Maryann said. “I want to be a mom in the stands.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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          

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.