A welfare check was requested the morning of March 7 for a suicidal female in the 13000 block of Ohio 37, Forest.

It was a record year in terms of the amount raised and the number of people who visited Upper’s Winter Fantasy of Lights this December, the committee confirmed Thursday while presenting checks totaling $30,000 to two local nonprofit organizations.

BUCYRUS — The Wynford Local Schools Board of Education will continue to consider an energy conversion project, voting at Thursday night’s meeting to authorize H.E.A.T. Total Facilities Solutions Inc. to submit a request for participation in the Ohio School Facilities Commission’s energy conservation financing program.

The Wyandot County Board of Developmental Disabilities approved the Angeline School calendar for the 2016-17 year, adopted a new policy regarding breastfeeding mothers who are employed at Angeline and heard an update on DD Awareness Month during a regular meeting Thursday.

Upper Sandusky High School is set to perform the musical “Hairspray!” at 7:30 p.m. today through Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The show is under the direction of Julia Massara and Ron Boose, along with music director Reid Barth, choreographer Kelli Stephens and student assistants Kaytlyn Graver as student director and Hope Voorhees as stage manager.

A deputy assisted a trooper from the Bucyrus Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol with a probable cause search the evening of March 6 on U.S. 23 near CH 44. Brian M. Burch, Upper Sandusky, was cited for failure to control after an accident the morning of March 4.

SYCAMORE — Parents and residents in the Mohawk Local School District had a lot on their minds — from school security, bullying and the behavior of the superintendent — during the school board’s monthly meeting Wednesday night.

The Wyandot County Safe Communities Coalition and local law enforcement are reminding the public “not to rely on the luck of the Irish” to get them home this St. Patrick’s Day and to designate a sober driver when planning to drink alcohol.

A Mansfield man pleaded guilty to possessing oxycodone during a September traffic stop in Wyandot County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday. Tony A. Montgomery Jr., 39, pleaded guilty to the third-degree charge of aggravated possession of drugs.

A Lancaster man is facing up to 60 months in prison and will be designated as a tier III sex offender after pleading guilty on Tuesday to sexual battery in Wyandot County Common Pleas Court. Zachary Michael Walter, 21, pleaded guilty the third-degree felony charge to the offense that occurred in June 2012.