A crew of Amish workers from the Fredericktown area is cutting out approximately 110 older trees and pulling them out with their team of draft horses from the woods of Jim Fox on TH 51 this week.

The Wyandot County Visitors Bureau recently announced the 2016 Lincoln Highway BuyWay Sales and the Upper Sandusky community garage sales will be the second weekend of August. Local advertising for sales will be handled through The Daily Chief-Union this year.

The Salvation Army and the Wyandot County Youth Commission will co-sponsor this year’s Party in the Park on Friday at Harrison Smith Park. This is the 13th year for the annual event.

Twenty-nine former Upper Sandusky High School students played in an alumni soccer game Saturday. Pictured are (fron row, from left) Luis Ayala, Brad Roeder, Anthony Wise, Patrick Massara, Jaime Boucher, Cliff Constien, Josh Thammarat, John Searfoss, Kyle Burbaugh, Jacob Rall, Matt Smiley;

MARION — Marion Technical College, Southern State Community College and Marion Industrial Center are coming together to offer a new truck driving academy. Interested students can sign up for the four-week classes, which begin Aug. 15.

The Upper Sandusky Area Chamber of Commerce will host its annual steak fry Aug. 10 in conjunction with Wyandot Mutual Insurance Co. The location of the event has changed.

COLUMBUS — Payroll true-up reports are due to the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation no later than Aug. 15. At the end of each private employer policy period (July), it is necessary to reconcile estimated payroll with actual payroll.

COLUMBUS — The Bureau of Workers’ Compensation is seeking employers to enter the annual Safety Innovation Awards competition, which recognizes innovations that have reduced safety, ergonomic and occupational health risks for employees.

NEVADA — The Rev. Dennis Laferty opened the community in prayer, and the sheriff’s deputies showed up. So did the fire department, highway patrol and emergency medical services.

Treatment of three rooms at Westbrook Assisted Living and Memory Care is underway for the next two weeks after they were found to have bed bugs in July, the executive director confirmed Friday. Licensed practical nurse Becki Roush, Westbrook’s executive director, said all families, residents and staff were notified immediately after the facility received its first confirmed case of bed bugs in a single resident room July 11.