On Friday, the Carey Blue Devils will take on the McComb Fighting Panthers at Wentling Field in Carey, and the Wyandot County Safe Communities Coalition will mark the start of the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” traffic safety campaign with the second annual raffle for specialized footballs.

Area law enforcement officials located marijuana growing at three residences during cannabis eradication efforts for the year. The county applied for funding from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Sheriff Mike Hetzel said.

Catherine Gillen, 93, of Upper Sandusky, defended her championship title in the second annual Hannah’s House adult spelling bee Saturday night at the Star Theatre. Attendees supporting the supervised visitation and exchange home had plenty of laughs, such as when Upper Sandusky Middle School principal Jim Wheeler (standing) called Stony Johnston (sitting, third from right) for help spelling one of his words.

Left: Glenn “Bruiser” Trout (left), originally from Mount Blanchard and currently of Naples, Florida, and Paul Bolander (center), of Mount Blanchard, speak with an Abraham Lincoln re-enactor during the inaugural Heritage Day festival on Saturday in downtown Mount Blanchard.

A 17-year-old high school senior from Wyandot County won the county’s first grand champion title for market barrows at this year’s Ohio State Fair, which ran July 27 to Aug. 7. It was a title many years in the making. Ashton Frey’s father, Nathan Frey, tears up with pride when he talks about his son’s state fair win.

Employees of McKenzie Concrete Inc. of Shelby pour concrete to form the new handicap accessible ramp at the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday morning after multiple days of rain delayed the project.

Potential algae blooms at two locations in the Sandusky River are believed to consist of green algae and testing did not detect toxins, county environmental health director Jeff Ritchey told the health board Wednesday.

Both the former Woody’s Restaurant and Pamida building on the northwest side of Upper Sandusky have been demolished and crews are working there on the new Love’s Travel Center.

Solomon Brown (front, center), 5, and Hailey Brown (front, right), 9, cross North Third Street with their mother, Christine Brown, on their way to the first day of the 2016-17 academic year at East Elementary School this morning.