The Echocardiography Laboratories at Blanchard Valley Hospital (BVH) and Bluffton Hospital have been reaccredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC). The BVH and Bluffton echo labs perform echocardiograms, a non-invasive test used to assess different areas of the heart and can detect heart disease or signs of serious conditions.

A central Ohio rental warehouse chain now has a link in Upper Sandusky. Showplace Rent to Own recently opened its 15th location at 1111 E. Wyandot Ave.

COLUMBUS — Chad S. Baker has been named a member of the 2017 Chairman’s Council of New York Life. Members of the Chairman’s Council rank in the top three percent of New York Life’s sales force of more than 12,000 licensed agents in sales achievement.

Whole Life Fitness, 228 S. Eighth St., Upper Sandusky, is offering a special healthy lifestyle program to the surrounding community. The Daniel Plan is a program founded on Biblical principles that focuses on five “essentials” — faith, food, fitness, focus and friends.

PLEASANT HILL, Tennessee — Uplands Village is a new affiliate of United Church Homes, a national provider of senior living services. United Church Homes Management will operate the retirement community in Pleasant Hill.

SYCAMORE — Tonight’s Sycamore Village Council meeting was rescheduled. Council will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the village office.

The Upper Sandusky Civil Service Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Members will recertify the police lieutenant’s civil service examination results and certify the police captain civil service examination results.

Mounir Haurani, MD, and Jean Starr, MD, are the new vascular surgeons at Wyandot Memorial Hospital’s Specialty Healthcare Center. They both practice at The Ohio State University Medical Center Division of Vascular Diseases and Surgery in Columbus and have office hours at WMH.

TIFFIN — American Fine Sinter announces it will be moving forward with the addition of two production lines at its North American headquarters in Tiffin, investing $20 million in equipment and creating 25 new jobs. Tennessee also was a possible site.

GALION — For nearly 150 years, Longstreth Memorials has been a fixture in Uptowne Galion. The company has move to Ohio 598, allowing it to combine its sales and both its monument and burial vault manufacturing facilities under one roof.