BUCYRUS — “My daughter didn’t need charged as a felon. She needed help,” Cindy Koumoutzis said. Koumoutzis is the state director for Ohio Change Addiction Now, and was one of around 100 people who took to the steps of the Bucyrus City Hall on Wednesday night to call for more ways to help recovering drugs addicts during National Overdose Awareness Day.

A Toledo man was injured in a single-car crash on U.S. 23 on Wednesday night, according to a report from the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office.

Melody Road, consisting of Wyandot County native Mary (Harris) Fry (left) and her husband, Bob, play select tunes during the entertainment portion of the Wyandot Soil and Water Conservation District’s annual meeting last Thursday evening in the Masters’ Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds.

CAREY — At 83, Floyd “Punk” Pieracini still spends his days the same way he did when he was 23. The Carey native and owner of Pieracini’s Barber Shop has called the small space on South Vance Street his office since 1976.

The Daily Chief-Union incorrectly reported the expected value of two companies after a merger announced last week. An agreement for First Federal Bank, Defiance, to purchase Commercial Bancshares, Upper Sandusky, is expected to leave the combined organization with about $2.8 billion in assets, not $2.8 million.

The suspect in an alleged assault in the parking lot at Bridgestone early Monday morning has been identified, and the victim signed charges against the Fostoria woman who admitted to punching the victim in the back of the head after following her from Findlay to her workplace.

A telephone scam involving Wyandot County Common Pleas Court has been reported. Two individuals reported on separate occasions receiving a call from the Wyandot Common Pleas Court and being asked about personal information.

A welfare check was conducted on two dogs that were tied up outside and barking the afternoon of Aug. 6. The homeowner stated she was remodeling and the dogs needed to be outside. They had water.

The city of Upper Sandusky is in the beginning stages of addressing a new state law that will go into effect Jan. 1 prohibiting the operation of low-speed vehicles on any roadway with an established speed limit greater than 35 mph.

A special meeting requested by a member of city council went forward despite the resignation of that member earlier in the day. Tom Shumaker dropped off a written resignation earlier Monday to council clerk Sarah Bennett.