Seventh-graders from the Carey, Mohawk and Upper Sandusky school districts participated in the annual Wyandot Soil and Water Conservation District tours this week and stopped at a variety of locations throughout the county to learn about its natural resources.

Fairhaven Community is the 2016 Wyandot County Iron Chef competition winner after a week of delectable meals served at the Wyandot County Council on Aging’s Senior Connection.

A total of 120 people were expected to attend the first evening of haunted walking tours in Upper Sandusky as part of a Thursday program of the Upper Sandusky Community Library in conjunction with former Wyandot County Museum Curator Ashlie Payton and her father, Mike Webb.

Volunteers demonstration how to use hydraulic rescue tools like Jaws of Life during last Friday’s “Feel the Heat” media day at the Ohio Fire Marshal’s Office. Local fire departments are stocked with rescue tools to help on the scenes of serious crashes.

World-class athletes who travel the world with the Power Team visited Upper Sandusky’s Trinity Evangelical United Methodist Church on Wednesday evening. Under the direction of president Todd Keene, the team kicked off the week during which they will visit 17 schools, including the Carey, Mohawk and Upper Sandusky school districts, to share an anti-bullying message.

The first person to vote in Wyandot County as early voting began Wednesday was nearly nonagenarian Helen Vogel, of Upper Sandusky, according to a press release from the Ohio chapter of Hillary For America.

Depending on whom you ask, the holiday season may begin in mid-December or mid-October. Those who prefer a prolonged yuletide can find company in uptown Upper Sandusky, where Dianntha Lessig, co-owner of the Vyntage Barn at 12487 TH 60, has a new pop-up Christmas shop.

SYCAMORE — The students of Mohawk Elementary School were given two challenges Monday morning. The challenges were issued by a fourth-degree black belt, originally from Reno, Nevada, who has traveled to Africa nine times to visit orphanages.

There were a number of sights as firefighters training at the Ohio Fire Academy on Friday worked under a variety of conditions and with a number of different types of fires.

Employees of Thiel Excavating and Drainage work to connect a plastic drain tile to a clay tile from the 1800s on Tuesday while Wyandot County Commissioner Bill Clinger (far left) looks on.