The Carey Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the 2016 Professional Women’s Luncheon, to be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 27. The topic for the luncheon will be “humor in the workplace,” with speaker Nancy Proctor, of Blanchard Valley Health System. Promotional opportunities for local businesses include sponsorship of the event, contributions of bag stuffers and donations …

A woman in the 100 block of Hillcrest Street, Nevada, reported the night of April 12 her television set was stolen from her residence while she was not home. She said it was the third TV stolen recently from her home.

VERMILION (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old Ohio boy has been fatally electrocuted while apparently attempting to conduct an experiment he saw on YouTube.

The city of Upper Sandusky on Tuesday replaced about half of the reverse osmosis elements at the water treatment plant in the first of two maintenance phases. On April 4, water treatment plant supervisor Aaron Schoenberger addressed the service committee concerning the replacement of approximately 180 elements or nanofilters.

FINDLAY — The body of a rural Bucyrus man was found inside a vehicle last week east of the Findlay reservoirs in Hancock County’s Marion Township.

The Upper Sandusky Service Committee approved the hiring of 18 individuals as summer help during a regular meeting earlier this month.

Upper Sandusky senior Rene’ Vent has received a $1,000 scholarship from Schmidt Machine Company for the 2015-16 scholarship year. As an approved national FFA scholarship sponsor and in cooperation with AGCO, Schmidt Machine Company presented the scholarship to Vent at the Upper Sandusky High School FFA banquet Thursday.

COLUMBUS — Cy Prettyman of New Bloomington has been elected treasurer of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. Prettyman now holds the third highest elected office in the state’s largest and most influential farm and food organization, according to a press release from the Ohio Farm Bureau.

Eighteen project members, three cloverbuds and four advisers recently attended the third meeting of the River Roundup 4-H club at John Stewart United Methodist Church. Gabi and Kayleigh Gobs and Hannah, Leah and Rachael Herring provided refreshments.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture finalized a rule to ensure that farm safety-net payments are issued only to active managers of farms that operate as joint ventures or general partnerships, consistent with the direction and authority provide by Congress in the 2014 farm bill.