Wyandot County farmers and their families were given a chance to think about anything but paperwork and the weather Tuesday with a Farmer’s Night Off event in the Masters’ Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds. The event, organized by Wyandot County Commissioner Bill Clinger, area crop insurance companies and Pastor Jay Scott, was viewed as a way to give back to area farmers after a devastating amount of spring rainfall caused heavy losses this year.

After a successful day of adoptions Saturday, Lynda Balz, the founder and a volunteer director at the Wyandot County Humane Society, said one third of the 149, turned 152 with newborn puppies, dogs seized from an Upper Sandusky facility have been given new homes through rescues and adoptions.

COLUMBUS — The Ohio State Highway Patrol is urging motorists to drive sober. During the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign, troopers will focus enforcement efforts on removing impaired drivers from Ohio’s roadways.

The Wyandot Memorial Hospital Guild is holding a special meeting at 1:30 p.m. Monday. The group will meet in the hospital conference room.

BUCYRUS — The Mid-Ohio Progressives will meet at 6 p.m. Aug. 28 at the Bucyrus Public Library, 200 E. Mansfield St., Bucyrus. The meeting will feature a demonstration of Crawford County’s new voting equipment.

A Sycamore woman reported the theft of credit card information the afternoon of Aug. 15. The responding deputy advised her to cancel her credit card immediately. A Sycamore woman reported unwanted contact from her husband after filing for divorce the afternoon of Aug. 15. She was advised to contact the sheriff’s office if the situation escalates.

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 16 Ohio counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses due to five separate disaster events may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency emergency loans.

WASHINGTON — Agricultural producers reported they were not able to plant crops on more than 19.4 million acres in 2019, according to a new report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This marks the most prevented plant acres reported since USDA’s Farm Service Agency began releasing the report in 2007 and 17.49 million acres more than reported at this time last year.

ATLANTA — The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and private nonprofit organizations located in Ohio as a result of excessive rain and flooding from Sept. 1, 2018, through July 3.

Upper Sandusky Mayor Scott Washburn addressed rival village Carey’s recent prank on the city at Monday’s Upper Sandusky City Council meeting. In advance of Saturday’s Battle of the Badges softball game between Upper Sandusky fire and police departments against Carey’s fire and police departments, representatives from Carey raised a Carey flag on the Upper Sandusky Municipal Building’s flagpole, Washburn reported.