Firefighters from Marseilles and Pitt Township responded to a mower that caught fire Monday afternoon in the 10,000 block of CH 77 near TH 108. The resident was riding the mower when she noticed flames between the blade deck and the engine.

BUCYRUS — In a game that featured a fair share of offense, it was a defensive play that saved the day for Mohawk in a 7-6 win. Down 7-5 in the bottom of the seventh, Wynford got back-to-back one-out singles from Caleb Stone and Wyatt Smith, and both runners moved into scoring position on a wild pitch.

Once Upper Sandusky’s bats finally came to life, they did so in a big way. The Rams (10-4, 6-1 Northern 10 Athletic Conference) scored seven times in the fifth inning and four times in the sixth to beat Seneca East, 11-2, on Monday.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Riverdale’s boys and girls track and field teams won easily in a home tri-meet Monday. The Falcons girls scored 99 points, with Liberty-Benton edging Arcadia, 34-31, for second. The Falcons boys had 100 points, with the Eagles again edging the Redskins, 35-28, for second.

More than 250 people celebrated Easter at Harrison Smith Park on Saturday morning. Children ages 2-12 hunted and pecked through the lawn for 15,000 colorful plastic eggs filled with candy in this second year for what has become an annual event put on by the Apostolic Gospel Church.

The 1965-66 and 1966-67 Carey boys basketball teams that combined to go 43-3 were inducted into the Wyandot Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday night.

A donation from a descendent of a former Upper Sandusky clerk and councilman will fund an impending project to light the Wyandot County Courthouse tower at night. William West, 86, of Denver, Colorado, recently gave $25,000 for renovations to the building where his grandfather’s notes are preserved.

Volunteers (from left) Mallory Wheeler, Charlotte and Henry Moon and Rotary Club member Jessica Moon help sort Easter baskets at Upper Sandusky Community Library on Friday morning.

Members of the Upper Sandusky Community Library on Thursday voted to spend $6,600 to replace the carpet in the library’s basement.