The Upper Sandusky FFA recently hosted its greenhand banquet with 27 members receiving their FFA greenhand degrees. To receive the degree, members must have passed an FFA knowledge test, presented the five paragraphs of the FFA creed and have a planned supervised agriculture experience.

COLUMBUS — Ohio Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Agricultural Professionals will host its annual winter leadership experience Feb. 3-4 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Columbus. The event includes 20 workshops covering a wide range of food and farming topics.

Carey FFA presented school board members and administrators with fruit basket gifts during the December meeting of the Carey Board of Education.

BUCYRUS — Annie’s Project — Education for Women, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing educational programs designed to strengthen women’s roles in modern farm enterprises, will offer a six-week session beginning Jan. 25 and continuing from 5:30-9 p.m. Wednesdays.

A man in the 300 block of Spring Street reported a woman was claiming to be his power of attorney and cashed a check meant to go to a tree care service the afternoon of Oct. 24. Contact was made with the woman who advised she was his POA and the man has a history of mental illness.

CAREY — A local paranormal research group has released its first documentary, a 70-minute film that features history and unexplainable phenomenon at the old Carey School that since has been demolished. The Carey Area Paranormal Energy Research Society, formally organized in September 2011, is made up of members with diverse experience in energy work, psychic abilities and technology work.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Clay Thompson had everything ready for a surprise wedding proposal. The only thing he couldn’t control was the weather.

A Sycamore man turned himself in to law enforcement officials after fleeing the scene of a minor injury crash in the 100 block of Sycamore Avenue in Sycamore on Friday evening. Brian L. Mack allegedly was traveling eastbound through an alley with access to Sycamore Avenue around 10:30 p.m. when he struck a vehicle traveling northbound on the roadway and then struck a building at 112 S. Sycamore Ave.

Wyandot Memorial Hospital on Friday announced a “generous” multi-million dollar gift from the estate of Norman Gottfried made in memory of Gottfried and his brother, Russell Gottfried.

Just two days before Christmas and all through Hannah’s House, a few creatures were stirring, though not one was a mouse. Those inside the house did their best to prepare, as they knew special guests soon would be there.