In observance of Memorial Day, the Daily Chief-Union will not be publishing a paper Monday. The regular schedule will resume Tuesday.

Fifth- and sixth-grade students from St. Peter School in Upper Sandusky participated in the 18th annual St. Peter Bike Ride on Friday morning. The event featured the students, several adult chaperones, newly-hired St. Peter School Principal Blake England and two bicycle cops from the Upper Sandusky Police Department, all escorted by the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office.

Dear editor, As we approach another Memorial Day, we should reflect on what Memorial Day really means to us and to all Wyandot County service members who couldn’t be here this weekend to celebrate. It is a time to remember our service members who gave their all, so we could have our freedom.

Wyandot County Dog Warden Andy Niederkohr has been at the job for nearly 24 years. Niederkohr is responsible for enforcing the dog laws in Wyandot County and also manages the Wyandot County dog shelter, located at 7790 Ohio 199 in Upper Sandusky.

Upper Sandusky native Rob Gagnon (left) is presented with a key to the city Thursday by Mayor Scott Washburn at the Upper Sandusky Middle School honors program in the USMS gymnasium.

In preparation for the implementation of the new public transportation busses known as HATs (Hardin Area Transit) in Wyandot County, The Hancock Hardin Wyandot Putnam Community Action Commission is working to complete customer profiles.

The Ohio Department of Transportation recently released the following highway construction scheduled to occur within Wyandot County. Work is dependent upon weather conditions. U.S. 23 over Tymochtee Creek, just north of TH 103, will be restricted to one lane in each direction for a bridge rehabilitation project. The project also includes resurfacing of U.S. 23 between CH 97 and the U.S. 30 interchange, north of Upper Sandusky, which is expected to begin in early June. Lane restrictions are possible within the entire work zone for work done in preparation for resurfacing.

SHELBY — Thirteen strikeouts isn’t a season high for Upper Sandusky senior pitcher Jason Holly. He struck out 17 in a win earlier in the season, and had struck out 13 batters three separate times before Thursday’s contest. But in the Upper Sandusky baseball team’s 11-2 victory over Oak Harbor in the district semifinals Thursday at Shelby, Holly added to his 80 strikeouts on the season, pitching a complete game and allowing just five hits and two runs, striking out the side in one inning and retiring the Rockets in order in the second, third and fifth innings.

A caller reported a small fire on the 300 block of West Spring Street the early morning of May 23. The responding officer located an unattended fire with no protective ring and within 50 feet of a shed. Contact was made with the property owner, who extinguished the fire.

As many places as Master Gunnery Sgt. Daniel Clinger has been over the course of his life and service with the U.S. Marine Corps, he has always considered Wyandot County home. Clinger, who will be speaking at Upper Sandusky’s Memorial Day ceremony Monday, said he was surprised and honored when asked.