Upper Sandusky City Council approved a pay raise for the mayor’s position during its meeting on Monday. An ordinance authorizing a raise from the current salary of $50,000 to the new salary of $60,000 was given its second reading, passed unanimously and adopted by council.

Because the Upper Sandusky Icebreaker Invitational cross country meet was postponed from today to Wednesday, the farmer’s market scheduled for Wednesday at Harrison Smith Park is canceled.

Kimber Mann pulls back on the make-shift slingshot Saturday afternoon at the Block Party in Harrison Smith Park while playing a live version Angry Birds with a goal to knock down some buildings constructed out of cardboard boxes. The Block Party was hosted by the Apostolic Gospel Church of Upper Sandusky.

A Carey family of four’s home burned Saturday morning, Carey Fire Chief Chad Snyder said. The Carey Fire Department was paged to 811 E. Findlay St., Lot 24, at approximately 8:30 a.m. Saturday and flames were coming out of two rear windows of the trailer home, Snyder said.

Natalie Shuck of Upper Sandusky has raised over $1,000 in the past three years to benefit Open Door Resource Center by hosting a lemonade stand and bake sale.

Almost all counties in Ohio have public transportation, but Wyandot County is on the short-list of those that do not. That could be changing, however, as the Ohio Department of Transportation has accepted a letter of intent from the Hancock Hardin Wyandot Putnam Community Action Commission to apply for funding to expand public transportation offerings to include Wyandot County.

Construction of the 4-foot-by-18-foot flower bed and sign at the entrance of Bicentennial Park was completed last month. Pictured are Cory Boes, Drew Rall, Linda DeBolt and Janice Woods.

Wyandot County Infirmary Cemetery Memorial Committee founding members Kelli Smith (pictured) and Mary Reinhart worked together on Thursday to finalize the list of names that will be featured on the monument.

Postcards as well as all-occasion cards featuring landscaping and the Wyandot County Courthouse went on sale Thursday at Woods Antiques in Upper Sandusky with all profits going to the Wyandot County Courthouse continuing beautification fund.

Shane C. Kelly, Upper Sandusky, charged by the state with interfering with custody, amended plea to no contest, finding deferred pending pre-sentence investigation.