The Upper Sandusky Safety Committee met in special session Thursday afternoon, when it unanimously approved a request by the Home for the Holidays 5K committee to have the annual race Dec. 9, despite no one from the 5K committee showing up for the meeting.

BUCYRUS — Wynford Elementary School has a new assistant principal. Andrew Johnson was hired as assistant principal and attendance officer to replace Andrew Schiefer, who resigned as assistant principal and transportation director to take a job in the Mansfield City School District, Superintendent Fred Fox said at Thursday evening’s school board meeting.

The joint board of Wyandot and Crawford county commissioners voted to dismiss the Wahrer ditch petition Thursday after the state’s tiebreaking vote stopped the project. Ohio Division of Natural Resources Director James Zehringer voted against proceeding with the petition, breaking a tie after Wyandot County Commissioners Steve Seitz, Ron Metzger and Bill Clinger voted in favor of continuing the project during a hearing in June.

MARSEILLES — Marseilles Village Council met in regular session Tuesday. The biannual audit is complete.

Barbershop harmony will return to the Star Theatre in Upper Sandusky Aug. 26 as the community theater holds its annual Evening of Barbershop. This annual concert is held to raise funds for the local theater’s scholarship fund.

Ron Boose uncovered names signed on a wall at Wyandot County Council on Aging in Upper Sandusky, where he was preparing to paint walls Wednesday afternoon.

As one Upper Sandusky congregation prepares for its fourth summer get-together, its focus remains the same. Every year, the church on North Fifth Street aims to connect with the community by giving.

CAREY — A Carey man driving a pickup truck hit a man riding on a motorized scooter Wednesday afternoon, police said. Steven Yonts was cited for pedestrian right-of-way after the pickup truck he was driving struck Daryl B. Sprau, Carey Police Chief Rich Kesler said.

Upper Sandusky city officials are raising a stink about people throwing trash in dumpsters for cardboard recycling only.

An officer responded to a report of an attempted vehicle break-in in the 500 block of Highland Parkway early the morning of July 20. A victim reported between $1,500 and $2,000 in items were missing from his van.