Carey students (from left) Sarah Goble, 12th grade, Blake Mangett, third grade, Lily Arredondo, 11th grade, Catelina Luzader, fifth grade, Hannah Coldiron, ninth grade, Landon Miller, first grade, Alex Ricker, sixth grade, and Alayna DeAmicis, seventh grade, cut a ribbon symbolizing the opening the new Carey school building during the district’s dedication ceremony July 31.

A Mansfield man was sentenced to prison in Wyandot County Common Pleas Court on Thursday. Andrew R. Inman, 28, was ordered to serve seven years in prison for illegal manufacture of drugs, a first-degree felony.

Fluffy clouds meander over a Salem Township farm. Some areas of Wyandot County experienced their first steady rain all summer Thursday, as the skies opened up with passing thunderstorms throughout the evening.

FOREST — The Forest Police Department was called to a home on South Gormley Street on Wednesday afternoon. According to Police Chief Donny Southward, a resident in the area attempted suicide.

In Salem Township, a few country churches remain standing but they are fighting the battle of time. For some of the churches on record there are no skeletons that remain and the earth has erased the memory of their existence. There are others that emerged and vanished without a trace. North Salem Lutheran Church, 12237 TH 44, was built in 1872 and saw its last service in January.

The Wyandot County Budget Commission has released a list of amounts to be received by political subdivisions and the county from 2017 Ohio local government funding. The budget commission consists of Wyandot County auditor George “Bill” Kitzler, Wyandot County prosecutor Doug Rowland and Wyandot County treasurer Melissa Rife.

The Upper Sandusky Order of DeMolay hosted an open house at the Upper Sandusky Masonic Center on Wednesday night for anyone who wanted to come and find out more about the organization for young men. The Upper Sandusky chapter of DeMolay began in 1964, but through that time the organization does not have a set program.

SYCAMORE — A plastics company that began work in Sycamore after a late summer 2014 road widening project already is seeking to expand, village officials announced during a regular meeting Tuesday.

SYCAMORE — Jacob M. Ward held up a small, glass Coca-Cola bottle in front of a crowd of five people. The drink, which became an iconic symbol somewhere along the way during the company’s 130-year history, was exactly what he needed to make his point.