Wyandot County Environmental Health Director Jeff Ritchey met with multiple individuals to receive public input on the health board’s plans for a septic tank operational maintenance and permitting program.

Approximately 20 students braved freezing temperatures to drive in the annual Upper Sandusky High School drive your tractor to school day parade this morning.

To make a tournament run, teams have to be playing their best when it matters most. That has been the case for the Wyandot County Special Olympics basketball team, which has made a surprise run to this weekend’s state tournament.

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.