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.

Upper Sandusky High School will have a new traffic pattern for student pick-up and drop-off when classes begin Thursday. Superintendent Laurie Vent said at Monday evening’s school board meeting traffic around the school at those times in the past has been difficult.

CAREY — At its meeting Monday, Carey Village Council approved the first reading of an ordinance authorizing the mayor and village administrator to enter into a school resource officer contract with the Carey Exempted Village Schools superintendent and the Carey police chief.

All current sixth, seventh, and eighth graders at Upper Sandusky Middle School in Upper Sandusky are invited to a swimming party from 7-9 p.m. Saturday at Harrison Smith Park. A $5 admission fee will cover swimming, pizza and drink.