CAREY — The Carey Exempted Village School District has welcomed four new teachers and one new administrator this school year. Betsy Speer Betsy Speer will be the new English teacher at Carey High School. Specifically, she will be teaching Advanced English 11, Advanced English 12 and an end-of-course English class. She also will facilitate the College Credit Plus classes at CHS.

The Ohio Department of Transportation released the following updates to highway construction scheduled to occur within Wyandot County. Work is dependent upon weather conditions. U.S. 23 between CH 97 and the U.S. 30 interchange, north of Upper Sandusky, will be restricted to one lane in each direction through the work zone for pavement resurfacing. Variable speed limit signs will be in place to display the legal, posted speed limit through the work zone. Work is being performed by The Shelly Company, Findlay.

St. Peter ‘s School welcomed its students back Thursday and Friday with high fives, bubbles and waving inflatable tubes.

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Barbershop harmony will return to the Star Theatre in Upper Sandusky on Saturday as the community theater holds its Evening of Barbershop. This biannual concert is held to raise funds for the local theater’s scholarship fund. This year’s lineup of quartets includes The Core, Harmonic Thunder and Tune Squad.

The Upper Sandusky Exempted Village School District held its first day of the 2019-20 school year today.

CAREY — According to a release from the Carey Police Department, a call was received at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday from a male juvenile, reporting an unknown male had broken into his house. The juvenile sheltered in an upstairs closet, while waiting for officers to arrive, according to the release.

This month, thousands of Ohio school children will be heading back to school. There will be more children, teen drivers and buses on the roads. With classes back in session, all drivers and riders should brush up on traffic safety. The Mental Health and Recovery Services Board recently announced several tips for parents, students and community members to keep in mind this school year.

A Marion man was sentenced to community control Wednesday by Wyandot County Common Pleas Court. Owen A. Taylor, 34, of Marion, was originally charged with manufacture of a controlled substance (illegal cultivation of marijuana) and trafficking in drugs (trafficking in marijuana with criminal forfeiture specification) on Dec. 12, 2018. The trafficking charge was dismissed in June and Taylor pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of possession of marijuana, a third degree felony, on June 4, according to Wyandot Common Pleas Court records.

At its regular meeting Wednesday, the Wyandot County Board of Health discussed its strategic planning process. The board is currently on step four of the process, which is “agree on strategic priorities.” Board members placed stickers on a chart next to the priorities they felt were the most important.