KENTON — A Carey man was sentenced to 30 days in jail with seven days credit for time served after being found guilty of burglary in Hardin County Common Pleas Court.

A Carey High School graduate is traveling to Washington, D.C., this weekend to spread awareness about brain cancer and meet with Ohio representatives in an effort to increase funding for research into the disease.

A benefit in rural Sycamore last weekend raised $17,000 for a Findlay woman and Carey High School graduate who is battling stage 4 brain cancer.

“The combination of drinking and driving and distracted driving is believed to be the cause of a two-vehicle crash that killed two Wyandot County high school seniors on their way to a local prom Saturday afternoon.”

Students in the Upper Sandusky Exempted Village School District learned about the many benefits of trees in the city’s annual Arbor Day celebration Friday morning at Stepping Stones Park under overcast skies.

Masses at Transfiguration of the Lord Catholic have been moved to the gymnasium at St. Peter School today and Sunday due to a vandalism at the church overnight Thursday.

TIFFIN — Mohawk and Carey schools were among the new awardees for 2017 levy funds from the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Seneca, Sandusky and Wyandot Counties.

Ditch petition projects were a large part of the Wyandot County Board of Commissioners’ agenda on Thursday. Less than an hour after approving the Guardian-Smalley petition to move forward, the commissioners held their first meeting on the Fruth ditch petition, setting up a joint county board with the Hancock County commissioners for the project that runs 5.73 miles and covers 5,862 acres of watershed in Wyandot and Hancock counties.

Construction work on the Smalley-Guardian ditch petition finally can move forward. After a final hearing Thursday, the Wyandot County commissioners approved going forward with the project, which will run a large drainage tile from behind original petitioner Jim Smalley’s farm located behind Carmar Gardens to the north behind Guardian Industries before boring underneath the CSX railroad and running north to CH 57.

The Star Players production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” runs this weekend only with performances at 7:30 p.m. April 29 and 30 and 2 p.m. May 1 at the Star Theatre, 121 W. Wyandot Ave., Upper Sandusky.