MANSFIELD — The Ohio State University Extension will present “Forest Health: Invasive Insects” from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 9 at the OSU Mansfield campus. The event is part of the Ohio Woodland Stewards Program and costs $35 per person.

A proposed water system improvement in the city of Upper Sandusky is stalled for the next two weeks after a resolution authorizing the mayor to seek Ohio Public Works Commission funding was tabled during Monday’s regular meeting.

Many parents are looking back at the past two and a half months wondering where the summer went. But it’s that time of the year.

CAREY — Carey Council dismissed a request from the mayor to fire an appointed full-time village employee during a regular meeting Monday. Council voted 4-0, with councilwoman Mellisa Cole absent, to turn down a request by Mayor Armand Getz to remove fiscal officer Nickie Coppler from her position.

The Upper Sandusky High School soccer teams are hoping the school board and community will support a two-story 16-by-16 building in between the bleachers at the soccer field. Heidi McLane proposed the building at Monday night’s school board meeting.

WHARTON — Wharton Village Council met with representatives of a tax agency Monday night at its monthly meeting. Representatives of the Regional Income Tax Agency came to introduce themselves to council, which might look to the agency to set up a plan to collect income taxes should it become necessary for the village financially.

A woman reported her neighbor shut off the water to her apartment in the 300 block of West Wyandot Avenue early the morning of Aug. 6. The neighbor advised the bathroom leaks into his bedroom.

MARION — Troopers from the Marion Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol are investigating a serious injury crash that occurred about 12:55 p.m. Saturday on Martel Road between the intersections of Ohio 309 and Linn Hipsher Road in Tully Township.

Current agricultural use values of Ohio soils are trending down, knowledgeable father and son duo Dick and Rick Hoffman said during a recent presentation hosted by Wyandot County auditor Bill Kitzler in the Upper Sandusky Community Library, but Wyandot County farmers will not see the effects in lowered tax rates for three years.

SYCAMORE — Multiple parties were listed as alleged victims after a report of theft and vandalism at a grain elevator in the village of Sycamore on Friday. The Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of vandalism at the grain elevator on Pennington Street.