The Wyandot County Chamber of Commerce’s golf outing title sponsor First Citizens National Bank elected to donate 10% of the funds from the annual golf outing to United Way of Wyandot County on Wednesday.

With heat index values rising to 100 and above over the next few days, cooling stations are opening in the area for residents who do not have air conditioning. Trinity Evangelical United Methodist Church, 108 Malabar Drive, Upper Sandusky, is open today, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The atrium will be open for all who need it and water will be available. Snacks will not be provided, but residents may bring their own. Residents also are invited to bring books and other entertainment with them.

Jasper Musgrave (left) assists scientist Cameron Lightfoot with a chemical experiment during the summer reading program of the Forest-Jackson Public Library.

DEFIANCE — The heart of summer is here, and with it, the height of construction season on area highways. Ohio’s highway network is maintained through consistent attention, making work zones a necessity. Reminding motorists to give workers within those zones the consideration and level of safety needed to perform their work was the focus of an event Tuesday, July 9 with representatives of the Ohio Department of Transportation, the Ohio Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust, and the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Defiance post.

Officers responded to a dispute over property on South Seventh Street the early morning of July 17. Two parties agreed on a time and date to exchange a house key for personal property. A caller reported a suspicious male with a group of females on Indian Mill Drive behind the Wyandot County Fairgrounds the afternoon of July 17. The responding officers located the subjects in the parking lot of Wyandot Memorial Hospital, and the subjects advised they were heading to the splash pad at Bicentennial Park and that no one was doing anything wrong.

Bridgestone celebrated the 20-year anniversary of plant 3 in Upper Sandusky on Thursday with a plant tour for local community leaders and a ceremony for its workers. Plant Manager John Vanderpool explained that plant 3 is part of Bridgestone’s diversified products. Bridgestone has two plants in Upper Sandusky, plant 3 is part of the Foam Products Division while plant 2 is Anti-Vibration Division products.

COLUMBUS — InnovateOhio and the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation recently announced the launch of a new survey tool for Ohio businesses to gather feedback ahead of the creation of the state’s new In-Demand Jobs List. Lt. Governor Jon Husted serves as the Director of both initiatives.

The Wall That Heals, a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Replica travels through Upper Sandusky Tuesday on its way to Marion with a huge procession of motorcycles (pictured above) and a police escort (pictured below) that stopped traffic along East Wyandot Avenue for several minutes.

When 2016 Upper Sandusky graduate Corrie Knapp was diagnosed with diabetes at age 11, she was lucky to be able to have a support system in one of her best friends since preschool, Emma Smith. The two, now 21, attended a camp for children with Type 1 diabetes together when they were 12. Knapp explained that campers were encouraged to bring along camp buddies as support. After the camp experience, which the two didn’t like very much because of the long drive, Knapp and Smith discussed the need for a camp closer to home.

REYNOLDSBURG — The Ohio Department of Agriculture, in coordination with USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, has detected sudden oak death caused by Phytophthora ramorum on rhododendron plants shipped to Walmart and Rural King stores throughout the state. Both retailers have agreed to initiate a voluntary recall of plants from their stores.