Fourth-grader Jayden Ruehle plays a game of checkers during an after-school workshop at Mohawk Community Library. The program is for children in third through fifth grades.

More than 250 people celebrated Easter at Harrison Smith Park on Saturday morning. Children ages 2-12 hunted and pecked through the lawn for 15,000 colorful plastic eggs filled with candy in this second year for what has become an annual event put on by the Apostolic Gospel Church.

A 21-year-old Carey man accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl is facing felony charges. Wyandot County sheriff’s deputies arrested Devon Scott Layfield on his birthday Sunday.

Matthew G. Lee, Fort Worth, Texas, was arrested for physical control and cited for possession of an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle the afternoon of April 2 after a caller reported two individuals throwing empty beer cans out of a truck with Texas plates parked at a pond on private property near CH 108 and CH 47, Salem Township.

A donation from a descendent of a former Upper Sandusky clerk and councilman will fund an impending project to light the Wyandot County Courthouse tower at night. William West, 86, of Denver, Colorado, recently gave $25,000 for renovations to the building where his grandfather’s notes are preserved.

All Upper Sandusky student-athletes in seventh through 12th grades will be subject to random drug testing beginning in the fall. The Upper Sandusky Exempted Village Schools Board of Education approved the update to the athletic code of conduct Monday, changes that Superintendent Laurie Vent said were developed with input from a committee of students, parents and school officials.

SYCAMORE — A 17-year-old Harpster boy was flown by medical helicopter to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus after sheriff’s deputies found him drunken and passed out at an underage drinking party at an Eden Township home early Thursday morning.

Volunteers (from left) Mallory Wheeler, Charlotte and Henry Moon and Rotary Club member Jessica Moon help sort Easter baskets at Upper Sandusky Community Library on Friday morning.

Next week, the sewer line separation project will be in various work areas of West Wyandot Avenue, west of Eighth Street, and on North Eighth Street for curb and road revitalization.

Cheryl A. Chaffee, Sycamore, was cited for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and failure to control after a single-vehicle crash on Ohio 67 near milepost 29 early the morning of April 1. Her blood-alcohol content level was .199 percent, more than two times the .08 legal limit to drive in Ohio.