Wyandot Memorial Hospital on Friday announced a “generous” multi-million dollar gift from the estate of Norman Gottfried made in memory of Gottfried and his brother, Russell Gottfried.

Just two days before Christmas and all through Hannah’s House, a few creatures were stirring, though not one was a mouse. Those inside the house did their best to prepare, as they knew special guests soon would be there.

Over 6,000 miles away a light burns in a church, just as it did more than 1,000 years ago. The light burns every day and is closely monitored to be sure it never is extinguished, and now the light burns brightly in Wyandot County in a small, quiet church on CH 127.

SYCAMORE — Mohawk junior high and high school winter athletes spent the first day of winter break sorting and hauling food donations and otherwise assisting the Sycamore United Church of Christ Food Pantry. As part of a community service project involving Mohawk’s wrestlers and girls and boys basketball players, local youth got out of practice Wednesday morning and headed to the high school cafeteria, where they sorted through hundreds of items collected in a contest between younger and older students that began just after Thanksgiving, Mohawk High School Athletic Director Chip Dietrich said.

SYCAMORE — Mohawk Animal Hospital, a new veterinary operation owned by Sally Chevalier, recently opened at 414 W. Seventh Street, Sycamore, after a building renovation project was finished in about six months.

Forty-eight attendees of a customer service seminar at the Upper Sandusky Community Library on Tuesday were treated to a free lesson on maintaining good working relationships. The seminar was sponsored by the Upper Sandusky Area Chamber of Commerce, Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Sandusky, Seneca and Wyandot Counties and Wyandot County Home Health.

Laurie Scheck chips away at a thick layer of ice on the sidewalk outside Stansbery, Schoenberger and Scheck Law Offices on Monday morning. Temperatures remained in the single digits throughout the morning as a bitter cold front made its way through northwest Ohio, and employees of local businesses attempted to clean up the icy mess on the sidewalks in the downtown area.

The Wyandot County Board of Commissioners recently reviewed the projects completed during 2016 at the county-owned buildings along South Sandusky Avenue. The costs for the projects in 2016 totaled $348,851.50, with some of the funding being provided through grants.

Christmas spirit typically is not hard to find in rural America in late December. Christmas trees and rooftops adorned with shining lights can be seen on multiple houses and businesses all around the area.

Many patrons braved freezing temperatures Thursday evening and filled Harrison Smith Park to drive through the 2016 edition of the Upper Sandusky Fantasy of Lights.