Jennifer Rathburn is the new mayor of Carey. Wyandot County Common Pleas Court Judge Kate Aubry swore in Rathburn on Friday. She is the village’s first female mayor and fourth in the last year. The first issue she will face is prayer at council meetings.

CAREY — Former Carey Mayor Armand Getz said he made law enforcement officials aware of a threat to the village, but he chose not to file a report. While reading his resignation letter during a council meeting March 20, Getz said he received a threat “that would have a very real implication to the health, safety and welfare of the village of Carey.” He declined to reveal what the threat was.

A Bellevue woman pleaded guilty to a reduced burglary charge Friday as part of a plea deal in Wyandot County Common Pleas Court. Kristina L. Halm, 23, admitted to a third-degree complicity to burglary charge for her role in a burglary that took place in the 9000 block of TH 18 east of Carey on Dec. 11.

Wyandot County and Upper Sandusky law enforcement officials disagree about whether golf carts should be driven on the street with cars, and it may hit drivers in their wallets. Sheriff Mike Hetzel said deputies will ticket drivers and immediately tow all golf carts they see driving on Upper Sandusky streets. Violators will face a $100 fine.

A construction crew will continue hooking up residential sewer lines on North Seventh Street in the block North of Finley Street next week. The crew will head north.    

Ross A. Johnson, Upper Sandusky, charged by the sheriff with trafficking in drugs, preliminary hearing set for April 5.

Philip J. Hastings and Robin K. Hastings to Paul Noascono and Amanda Noascono, 10.494 acres in Marseilles Township. William E. Sturgeon, Debra J. Sturgeon, Douglas A. Wait and Trudy K. Wait to Kalmbach Properties LLC, 5.355 acres in Crane Township.

Certificate of judgment: Springcastle Credit Funding, Evansville, Indiana, judgment creditor, vs. Robert D. Aurand Jr., et al, and Denise C. Aurand, PO Box 5, Morral, judgment debtor.

Brian Dean Young, 41, 14066 CH 64, Upper Sandusky, truck driver; and Jennifer Lynn Leupp, 39, Overton, Nebraska, nutritionist, March 23.

No gas was detected at schools on Upper Sandusky’s north side Thursday after a work crew ruptured a gas line near the corner of North Seventh and Finley streets. Emergency calls to police from residents and officials at St. Peter and South schools reporting smells of gas began coming in to police about 8:30 a.m.