Braylynn Lloyd (sitting, top center) gets help making a Christmas card for a soldier serving overseas from Samantha Fogel (standing, left) and Deanna Stuckman (standing, right) during the Red Cross’ Holiday Mail for Heroes event at Beca House Coffee Shop on Thursday night.

The Wyandot County Courthouse soon will receive heat through a new boiler. The county commissioners this week approved the purchase and installation of a new boiler system from Positive Trades Group LLC of Holland at a cost of $92,437.

The Wyandot County Community Garden is gearing up for another year with a goal to raise $400 and a chance to double that with a small grant.

KENTON — The source of Tuesday morning’s fire at the Scioto Village Apartment’s B building may not be known for a few more days. A K-9 officer from the Columbus area trained to sniff out accelerants was brought to the scene of the fire shortly after noon Tuesday, but the results of that search won’t be released until a final report is complete, Kenton Fire Chief Russ Blue said today.

A group of crocheters and knitters is working to ensure no child in the Upper Sandusky Exempted Village School District goes without a hat during the winter months. The Knotty Hookers crochet club, a program of the Upper Sandusky Community Library, started meeting once a month in April.

Four people were taken to area hospitals from an early morning fire at the Scioto Village Apartments in Kenton, but, according to witnesses, things could have been much worse if not for the heroic acts of some residents. Kenton Fire Chief Russ Blue said his department was called to the apartment complex on the south side of the city at 5:38 a.m. today.

Upper Sandusky streets department employees Brad Taylor (left) and Scott Musgrave take a ride in a bucket truck, which the city recently purchased used, while hanging Christmas decorations in the downtown area. New decorations were acquired this year in time for the holiday season.

Anthony Selover (standing), an Upper Sandusky Middle School eighth-grader, assists at the annual quarter auction Sunday to benefit the eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C., and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Area residents packed into the dining hall at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds, where they had an opportunity to bid on more than 120 items donated by local businesses and individuals.

Wyandot County Junior Fair Board members (from left) Lizzy Shane and Morgan Shane and horse department adviser Andrea Harrell wrap gifts for donations Sunday during the first Holiday Vendor Wonderland, sponsored by Expos By Design LLC, in the Masters’ Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds.

Lillyann Roope (front) gets popcorn for her fellow movie-goers before the Friday night debut on the Star Theatre’s new digital projector.