The Wyandot County Young Professionals presented a $5,000 donation to the Star Players board at its regular monthly meeting in August to finalize a campaign for a new digital movie projector.

As the Farm Service Agency celebrates 30 years of its Conservation Reserve Program this month, at least one local farmer also reached a milestone after being a program participant for 25 years. Dave Courtad is familiar with many of the practices supported by CRP, including filter strips, wind breaks, quail buffers and wetlands.

Betty Needs (right), of Upper Sandusky, gets an autographed copy of the new book “A Brief History of Wyandot County” by local historian, museum curator and historical society director Ron Marvin Jr.

Emma Shumaker (right), 6, learns canning techniques with her grandma, Jane Shumaker, and aunt, Janah Shumaker (not pictured) during a Wyandot County Farm Bureau-sponsored program Wednesday evening at John Stewart United Methodist Church.

Tom Connolly had wanted to walk across the Unites States ever since traveling from his native Connecticut to the West Coast in the early 1990s. After finishing his first independent film last year, the actor and comedian finally decided to try to make the 3,000-mile trek from near his home in Van Nuys, California to his native Windsor, Connecticut.

Passengers on a charter bus that crashed on U.S. 23 around 2 p.m. Friday acted quickly when they noticed something wrong with their driver, potentially preventing injuries of 48 or more people.

Thirteen area women can mark one item off their bucket lists after a bus trip to Indiana earlier this month sponsored by the Upper Sandusky chapter of Catholic Ladies of Columbia.