The Wyandot County 4-H Endowment Committee will host Ensure the Legacy Auction and Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Masters’ Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds, 10171 Ohio 53, Upper Sandusky. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Wyandot County producers are reminded that the acreage reporting deadline for perennial forage crop (examples are grass hay, alfalfa, clover or pasture) is Nov. 15 for crop year 2018 and subsequent years. Also, producers are reminded that the acreage reporting date for fall seeded crops is Dec. 15.

The Village of Sycamore held several contests Saturday for its Halloween in Sycamore event. The costume judging featured five age brackets and one group contest.

Three candidates are seeking two positions as Salem Township trustees. Kenneth Derr, Jack A. Gottfried and Jon E. Zimmerman are seeking four-year terms to begin in January.

At 81 years old, Rosemary Austin can still flash some leather on the softball field. The Upper Sandusky resident recently traveled to Myrtle Beach for her final senior softball tournament of 2017, where she collected All-American honors while playing third base and catching for the Freedom Spirit.

Well, today, I got six more letters from different organizations that want money. Well, people, when you start fighting for my social security cost of living adjustment (COLA), I’ll send you money.

On Monday, the Wyandot County Commissioners accepted an application from Steven Webster to trap the county woods near Angeline. He was the only applicant. Trapping typically involves muskrats, fox or mink, depending on what is in season.

Cathy Hiner loves to work with her hands. A former United Methodist pastor, Hiner, 77, followed her daughter and moved to Upper Sandusky in 2009 and has been active with John Stewart United Methodist Church and the Wyandot County Council on Aging for the past seven years and counting.

Dear editor, I am a professional who has witnessed the prevalence of mental illness and addiction in Wyandot County. These are conditions that no family or community can hide from or be excluded from on some level anymore.