Representatives of local organizations joined volunteers Monday for a community garden workday at the city-owned property on South Sandusky Avenue, with hopes that locally grown produce will be available in local food pantries in about six weeks.

Upper Sandusky Exempted Village Schools will save a few thousand dollars thanks to volunteer work that will be done at a bus maintenance storage building.

Upper Sandusky City Council discussed potential changes to a draft property maintenance ordinance a week after offering a public hearing on the issue. Most council members expressed concerns Monday about the draft ordinance as it stands, but council does not appear to be backing away from its commitment to expanding the current property maintenance ordinance to include civil penalties. Upper …

City council approved two ordinances after their second readings and the first reading of a newly introduced ordinance to authorize the purchase of a pickup truck during its regular meeting Monday.

AKRON — Summit Psychological Associates Inc. on Monday announced its continued commitment to the Vivitrol treatment program, a medication-assisted treatment collaboration between Oriana House-RIGEL Recovery Services and SPA that provides opiate addicted clients with wrap-around services tailored to their individual mental health and substance abuse needs.

More than 200 4-H and FFA members from 34 states, including the Upper Sandusky FFA chapter, competed in the 65th annual national land and range judging contest in Oklahoma on May 5.

COLUMBUS — The Upper Sandusky FFA traveled to the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus on May 6 for the 88th Ohio State FFA Convention.

The weather forced the program inside, but about a dozen participants received a variety of information about how to maintain a healthy aquatic environment in their ponds during the Wyandot Soil and Water Conservation District pond clinic Saturday morning.

The International Barrel Racing Association will present its 2016 Gymkhana show May 28 to benefit Court Appointed Special Advocates.

The Upper Sandusky Area Chamber of Commerce is soliciting donations for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display in the city. Upper Sandusky’s 2016 fireworks display is slated for July 2 at Upper Sandusky High School, with a rain date of July 3.