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.

REYNOLDSBURG — The chief of the Fire and Explosion Investigations Bureau at the Ohio Fire Marshal’s Office on Friday explained how investigators work closely with the office’s forensics lab and law enforcement officials in piecing together evidence and witness statements after a blaze.

Four guest judges taste the food provided at Senior Connection for day one of the third annual Iron Chef competition. The judges are (clockwise, from front, left) Anne Leighty, Bringman-Clark Funeral Home; Kathy Grasz, Upper Sandusky Area Chamber of Commerce; Vicki Charlton, Wyandot County Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; and Fortune Bormuth, Wyandot Memorial Hospital.

Manfred Hanke (right) speaks with Cal Bardon (left) of Upper Sandusky at the Oktoberfest gathering at St. Paul Lutheran Church on Sunday. Hanke was born near Landshut, Germany and traveled to the United States in 1953.