Professional services firm Wagler Badenhop has acquired Logan County’s Wilkins Accounting Solutions in a move that strengthens tax preparation, payroll, and small-business consulting offered to families and small business in North Central Ohio.

SYCAMORE — Sycamore Village Council voted to approve raises to the volunteer fire department officers and fourth-year lifeguards during its meeting Tuesday. The finance committee recommended a raise to 50 cents an hour over minimum wage to lifeguards with four years experience, $5,000 per year for the fire chief, $1,350 for assistant fire chief and assistant EMS chief, $300 for captain and $150 for lieutenants. The recommendations were approved unanimously.

American Legion Post No. 344 in Carey raised $1,077 for Hannah’s House from a guest bartending event held Saturday night.

Demonstrating how to play “Incy Wincy Spider” on “boomwhackers” during Tuesday’s summer reading program at the Gormley Park pavilion in Forest are (from left) Cody Flowers-Barger, Lonnie Adams and Alaina Tracy.

McCUTCHENVILLE — The Ohio Department of Transportation Northwest District 1 reported Tuesday that Ohio 53 south of McCutchenville is now open following repairs from damage to the railroad crossing caused by a train derailment last week.

The following dates are the deadlines for multiple programs. June 15, 2018 - Committee nomination period begins for LAA No. 1.

The Senior Depot in Carey was packed Monday for a lunch provided by Vicki Charlton from the Wyandot County Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The Wyandot Council on Aging hosted Bingo afterwards, with patriotic prizes awarded to the winners.

CAREY — On Monday, Carey Village Councilors approved the final reading of an ordinance authorizing the village administrator and/or village mayor to send notice terminating the agreement with the Central Collection Agency, Division of Taxation, the central collection of municipal income tax between the city of Cleveland and the village of Carey. It was passed as an emergency.

The “What’s Cookin’” recipe group met for its annual picnic Monday evening at the Upper Sandusky Community Library. Attendees brought their favorite picnic food, complete with recipes.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Following suit with recent action by neighboring Hardin County School districts, Riverdale is looking into getting a school resource officer in its building beginning sometime during the upcoming school year.