JT Lanker and the Crossroads, of Wharton, take a break from performing in the beer tent at the Our Lady of Consolation Festival on Saturday afternoon. Band members are (from left) Rick Puchta, Joe Lanker Sr., JT Lanker and Billy Johnson.

MARION — The Marion Popcorn Festival has announced the first Community Showcase Stage Lip Sync Battle “Fake It to Make It” will take place at Bluefusion Entertainment Center during the month of July. All contestants will be scheduled to perform in the preliminaries July 16.

MARION — The Marion Palace Theatre starts the 2016-17 season with a local production of “Crazy for You.” Filled with non-stop Gershwin hit songs, “Crazy for You” features musical numbers, high-energy dances and a boy-meets-girl storyline.

ADA — The Lima Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the Fourth of July with a “Patriotic Pops” concert on the campus of Ohio Northern University at 7 p.m. July 2. The event is free and open to the public.

Jim Cruise (back), the “Spoon Man,” gets lots of laughs from the audience Tuesday as he plays a set of spoons to a song off the head of Hawk Washburn. Cruise’s performance, held at the Gormley Park shelter house in Forest, was part of the Forest-Jackson Public Library’s summer reading program.

About 15 area youth have spent the past three mornings learning about Wyandot Indian history at the annual junior historians day camp sponsored by the Wyandot County Historical Society.

Upper Sandusky will fog mosquitoes on Thursday nights during the summer months if weather conditions permit it. Fogging will begin at 11 p.m. and will end at 6 a.m. Fridays, beginning tonight.

Area firefighters entered a house fire Tuesday night in an attempt to rescue two people believed to be inside the residence, but found no one was inside before extinguishing the blaze. The Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office reported the fire at 4:23 p.m. Tuesday at 759 S. Hazel St.

Tiffany Lowery-Kear is looking to provide a cheap, convenient stop for shoppers in downtown Upper Sandusky are the surrounding area. Tuesday, she celebrated the recent opening of her dollar store at 116 W. Johnson St. with a ribbon cutting sponsored by the Upper Sandusky Area Chamber of Commerce.

TIFFIN — The North Central Electric Cooperative general manager took aim at President Obama’s Clean Power Plan at its annual meeting June 14 at the Seneca County Fairgrounds. General manager Markus Bryant said the cooperative’s mission is to provide reliable electric service, a superior customer experience and innovative energy solutions.