FINDLAY — Ohio’s hunters have the opportunity to pursue wild turkeys during a seven-week season from Saturday through Nov. 27. Gobblers and hens are legal game during the fall wild turkey season.

COLUMBUS — Portions of Holmes and Wayne counties will retain their designation as disease surveillance areas again this year as part of the state’s ongoing chronic wasting disease surveillance efforts, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation has named the newest members of its Young Agricultural Professionals state committee. They are Dustin and Casey Converse of Richwood, Elizabeth Long of London, Brandi and Wes Montgomery of Washington Court House and Lauren Schwab of Somerville.

FINDLAY — Ohio trappers are invited to participate in a special drawing Saturday for public land beaver and river otter trapping opportunities. A list of public land trapping opportunities available at the lottery is posted at www.wildohio.gov under Controlled Hunting and Trapping Events.

BOWLING GREEN — The office of Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) will host casework on-site in Carey. Staff members will be available to assist constituents with a federal department or agency issues from 9-10:30 a.m. Oct. 14 in the regular meeting room at the Dorcas Carey Public Library, 236 E. Findlay St.

Upper Sandusky Police Department Carolyn A. Hehr, Upper Sandusky, was cited for disorderly conduct — recklessly causing alarm to another by threatening a person in violent or turbulent behavior for allegedly blowing a running leaf blower into her neighbor’s face after her neighbor blew grass into her yard while mowing in the 400 block of South Seventh Street the afternoon of Aug. 23.

Upper Sandusky and Carey took first and second place, respectively, in two contests when agriculture students from four area schools competed in the Wyandot County soil judging contest on the farm of Dave and Linda Karcher on CH 106 near Crawford.

A former city councilman and current chairman of the park board has returned to Upper Sandusky City Council after being appointed by Mayor Scott Washburn during a regular meeting Monday evening.

As a new state law goes into effect Jan. 1 regarding the use of slow-moving vehicles including golf carts in municipalities, a handful of Upper Sandusky residents visited the safety committee’s regular Monday meeting to ask what public officials will be able to do to keep them on the road.

CAREY — An update from village administrator Roy Johnson was the main focus of the Carey Village Council meeting Monday night. Johnson advised council members a 2009 Ford F-250 4x2 was purchased for $21,000 from Magnum Motors in Beaverdam.