KENTON — Members of the Mid-Ohio Energy Action Committee for Rural Electrification (ACRE) heard from federal and state legislators regarding energy and health care issues at their breakfast meeting Monday at the Kenton plant. U.S. 4th District Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, told the group being a member of the U.S. Congress is not a difficult job when you “do what you were sent there to do.” In Jordan’s mind, that means not just fixing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but scrapping the law and turning health care back over to the marketplace.

Upper Sandusky’s monthly sewer rates will increase by $1, effective May 1. City Council on Monday unanimously voted to increase the rates by $1 each year through 2019. The minimum bill also will increase by $2 a month each year. The increase is necessary to pay for a new wastewater treatment plant, city officials said.

Three Upper Sandusky firefighters battle a blaze in a garage at the intersection of Ohio 199 and TH 29 in Crawford. USFD, Carey Fire Department and Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office, Emergency Medical Services and Emergency Management Agency all responded to the incident.

CAREY — The Carey police will assign an officer to be at the Carey School during school hours, Mayor Armand Getz announced during a council meeting Monday. Officer Brian Lomeli will serve as Carey’s school resource officer, Getz said. He is expected to start March 20. Lomeli is a part-time officer and dispatcher in Carey and also has served as a school resource officer at Findlay City Schools.

CAREY — Carey FFA President Carley Coppler made history Saturday by becoming the first known Carey FFA member to qualify to compete at the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis in October after winning her event at the state competition. Coppler previously made history by becoming the first Carey FFA member to reach the state competition level all four years of her high school career.

COLUMBUS — Rep. Wesley Goodman met last week with Wyandot and Crawford Soil & Water Conservation District representatives at a reception held at the Statehouse Rotunda. More than 650 conservation leaders consisting of supervisors and staff from Ohio’s 88 conservation districts, partners from the Ohio Department of Agriculture...

Edith Holzwart Jones (center) celebrates her 100th birthday with four generations of her family and friends during an open house at Fairhaven Community in Upper Sandusky on Sunday afternoon. Jones was born March 2, 1917 on the Holzwart family homestead outside of Kirby.

MARSEILLES — Nearly 100 people bowed their heads for a moment of silence before Wyandot County Historical Society Director Ronald Marvin Jr. read the names of the 35 passengers and three crew members who lost their lives aboard Lake Central Flight 527.

MARSEILLES — Sunday is the 50th anniversary of the only recorded commercial airplane crash in Wyandot County history. Lake Central Flight 527 crashed in a field along TH 94, south of Ohio 67 West, southwest of Marseilles on March 5, 1967. “Plane crash in county takes 38 lives,” was the headline in The Daily Chief-Union the following day.

One crew is scheduled to be in Upper Sandusky again next week to continue hooking up residential sewer lines. Workers will continue north on South Seventh Street, between Johnson Street and Wyandot Avenue. When that work is done, they will move on to North Seventh between Wyandot and Walker Street. Those blocks will be closed during construction working hours of …