Simple Gifts Dance LLC, Simple Gifts Dance, 100 S. Warpole St., Upper Sandusky, performing arts companies.

Spillane prepares for bat mitvah The land throughout Wyandot County is dotted with Christian churches, sharing a wide variety of beliefs within the religion. But one Upper Sandusky family has unique traditions compared to the Christian congregations, and is sharing those traditions with their neighbors and friends. The Rosenthals beam with pride for 13-year-old Kyra Spillane, who will be in …

The mayor of Upper Sandusky on Friday signed the city’s new property maintenance ordinance into law, holding out for 10 days as promised to collect the views of residents. Upper Sandusky City Council approved the ordinance July 5 by a vote of 4-2.

The second annual Upper Sandusky Alumni Girls Slowpitch Tournament was held last weekend. First Citizens National Bank won the tournament championship.

A deputy responded to a 911 call from an intoxicated man in the 17000 block of Ohio 231, Nevada, the night of July 5. The deputy learned from the owner of the residence that the man, a live-in friend, had been drinking with neighbors and came home very drunk.

The highly anticipated sewer separation project in the city of Upper Sandusky is set to begin around 7 a.m. Tuesday on Seventh Street near Bicentennial Park.

The children’s section of the Upper Sandusky Community Library soon will have four new computers after approval Thursday by the library’s board of trustees. Library director Kathleen Whitt said the library has seen an increase in computer use among children for doing homework and playing games, but the computers being used for those purposes are in an adult-focused area of the library.

WHARTON — The village of Wharton is back in the festival business. After two years of chicken barbecues in lieu of the annual event, the Wharton Festival will return Saturday.

BUCYRUS — Pending financing approval, Wynford Local Schools will be moving forward with a $760,000 energy conversion project through House Bill 264 and HEAT Total Facilities Solutions Inc. The Wynford school board on Thursday night approved an agreement with HEAT for the project, as long as the district is approved for financing with First Federal Community Bank as expected.

Logan Dible, a summer work crew member in the city of Upper Sandusky, paints a light green pole in a new shade of black in the downtown area earlier this week. The summer work crew has been busy painting all of the poles in the downtown area.