Nicole Garvin brought her nearly 4-year-old daughter, Caroline, to the polls to learn about her civic duty to vote this Election Day. Polls will remain open until 7:30 p.m.

The Upper Sandusky safety committee unanimously approved a route for the Home for the Holidays 5K after a request by organizer Kelsey Stief during its regular meeting Monday. Stief said runners will start at 9 a.m. Dec. 3 at John Stewart United Methodist Church, where the Upper Sandusky Rotary Club will host a pancake breakfast.

CAREY — Carey Council approved the first reading of an ordinance to double the pay of council members during a regular meeting Monday. A proposal introduced by council member Chad Kin at the Oct. 17 meeting would increase council wages from $2,000 annually to $4,000 a year.

CAREY — Roy Johnson, administrator for the village of Carey, was admitted to intensive care at a Findlay hospital on Monday evening. Johnson was absent from a regular council meeting that began at 7 p.m. due to an illness, Mayor Armand Getz said.

Trinity Evangelical United Methodist Church was filled with guests for the Wyandot County 4-H endowment dinner Monday evening. Items also were auctioned to raise endowment funds.

BUCYRUS — The Ohio State Highway Patrol is encouraging all motorists to buckle up this upcoming holiday season and continue to do so throughout the new year. From 2013-15, 1,151 people who were not wearing an available seatbelt died in crashes across Ohio.

The city of Upper Sandusky has qualified for an approximately $50,000 grant to transform an underutilized area at Bicentennial Park into basketball courts, Mayor Scott Washburn reported during a regular council meeting Monday.

The Upper Sandusky Police Department is investigating a report of a juvenile being grabbed by a person wearing a clown mask near the bike path behind Harrison Smith Park on Monday evening. A complainant stated five juveniles were confronted by three people wearing clown outfits in the area, and officers met with deputies from the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office to search in the area of the old reservoir, according to a report by the USPD.

SYCAMORE — A house fire that occurred Wednesday afternoon in rural Sycamore is under investigation by the state Fire Marshal’s Office. A rural Sycamore man called in the fire at his residence at 16 CH 36 in Sycamore Township about 12:10 p.m. Sycamore Fire arrived on scene at approximately 12:15 p.m., and firefighters immediately observed heavy smoke coming from the home.

COLUMBUS — After the most deer-vehicle crashes on Ohio roadways in years, Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor is stressing driver precaution this November, a peak month for deer movement.