COLUMBUS — Farmers in the Western Lake Erie Basin have another opportunity to obtain conservation financial assistance. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is accepting applications until Jan. 20 for funding through the Tri-State Western Lake Erie Basin Phosphorus Reduction Initiative.

The Upper Sandusky Exempted Village School Board approved changes to the high school course selection guide for the 2017-18 school year during its meeting Monday night. Junior government now will be reduced to the minimum half credit required by the state, allowing students instead to take college and career readiness, which will be a new junior requirement.

Thirteen people attended a public hearing before Upper Sandusky City Council on Monday evening to express their opposition to a special use permit for a bed and breakfast at 442 S. Sandusky Ave., and council ultimately voted 6-1 to accept a recommendation by the planning commission to deny the request.

Upper Sandusky City Council took the first step Monday toward allowing low-speed and other vehicles to be operated within city limits, but there will be a short time that no golf carts and similar vehicles will be permitted on roadways.

A Tiffin woman was sentenced to four years in prison in Wyandot County Common Pleas Court on Monday afternoon. Kendra M. Rochester, 30, was sentenced for a second-degree felony charge of burglary after pleading guilty to the charge in November.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — The Riverdale Local School District is set to update the security cameras on school grounds beginning in late January. At its regular monthly meeting Monday night, the Riverdale Board of Education approved spending of $76,499 from the general fund for the installation of new security cameras from Xtek Partners Inc. of Dublin.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Superintendent Eric Hoffman will be saying goodbye to Riverdale at the end of this school year. At the district’s school board meeting Monday night, Hoffman read and the board approved a motion accepting his retirement resignation as Riverdale superintendent effective Aug. 1, with a last day worked of July 31.

The Wyandot County Board of Commissioners recently reviewed the projects completed during 2016 at the county-owned buildings along South Sandusky Avenue. The costs for the projects in 2016 totaled $348,851.50, with some of the funding being provided through grants.

An Alvada man was shot while hunting in Salem Township on Saturday during the additional weekend of gun season for deer.

Two passengers, including a 9-year-old, in a vehicle involved in a crash Saturday were transported by Upper Sandusky Emergency Medical Services to Tiffin Mercy Hospital with possible injuries.