A residence just east of the village of Sycamore was destroyed in a fire early Monday morning. Sycamore Fire Chief Bryan Clouse said his department responded to 2630 Ohio 103 at 4:27 a.m.

MARION — United Church Homes, a leading national senior living provider based in Marion that operates Fairhaven Community in Upper Sandusky along with numerous other facilities, recently celebrated 100 years of growth and progress with a two-day observance in Columbus.

Two local mothers who wanted to show their children that people can unite around one common cause organized Hands Across Upper and Beyond on Wednesday evening, calling for communities throughout the nation to come together to demand an end to violence.

BUCYRUS — “My daughter didn’t need charged as a felon. She needed help,” Cindy Koumoutzis said. Koumoutzis is the state director for Ohio Change Addiction Now, and was one of around 100 people who took to the steps of the Bucyrus City Hall on Wednesday night to call for more ways to help recovering drugs addicts during National Overdose Awareness Day.

Angeline School welcomed a Bucyrus native as the new preschool teacher to its building this school year. Tasha McKenna joins the staff after substitute teaching in the Bucyrus area for the past four years.

The city of Upper Sandusky is in the beginning stages of addressing a new state law that will go into effect Jan. 1 prohibiting the operation of low-speed vehicles on any roadway with an established speed limit greater than 35 mph.

Upper Sandusky firefighter Drew Book stands at the intersection of Wyandot and Sandusky avenues collecting money for the Fill the Boot campaign. Representatives of the USFD stood at the downtown intersection and the Upper Sandusky Wal-Mart where over $3,000 was collected for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Norman Folk has had a lot of fulfilling jobs in his 92 years on this earth. But when his blood pressure began spiking in 2014, Folk became determined to get a different type of job, one that would keep him moving in good weather and bad.

Rick and Kim Daniel are the Wyandot Soil and Conservation District’s 2016 Cooperators of the Year.