A portion of Ohio 199 was closed for over five hours Thursday after a gas main was struck during a tiling project. According to a report from the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office, Kevin Kieran, owner of Drain and Gain of Tiffin, was running a tile knife off Ohio 199...

There were no serious injuries after a truck overturned on Ohio 103 in Ridge Township on Thursday morning. Vance A. Honse, 53, of Van Buren, was driving a truck for Reiter Dairy eastbound on Ohio 103...

Audiences will hear the sounds of a barbershop quartet in the Star Players’ production of “The Music Man” to be staged Nov. 5-8. During the Fourth of July celebration held at River City’s high school, fast-talking Harold Hill convinces the townspeople they need a boys’ band to occupy their youth.

TIFFIN — Heidelberg University and The Ritz Players will perform “Shrek the Musical” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Oct. 17 and 2 p.m. Oct. 18 at The Ritz Theatre, 30 S. Washington St., Tiffin.

ADA — The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents the ONU Symphony’s season-opening concert, “Destiny and Dvorˇák,” in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts at 5 p.m. Oct. 25. Under the direction of ONU music director Travis Jürgens, the program opens with Verdi’s “Overture to La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny),” followed by George Hüe’s “Fantasie for Flute and Orchestra,” which will be performed by Nicole Wells, a senior music performance major from Germantown, who won the department’s concerto competition.

ADA — Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” adapted by Charles Morey and performed by the Los Angeles Theatre Works, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17. In Charles Morey’s acclaimed adaptation, Count Dracula slips quietly into Victorian London with a cargo of his native Transylvanian soil, necessary for rest between his victims.

MARION — Director Clare Cooke has announced auditions for “Christmas at the Palace 2015-Hometown Blessings” will be held from 1-4 p.m. Oct. 18 on the Marion Palace Theatre main stage. All acts and ages will be considered for the family-friendly holiday show.

TIFFIN — Country music duo Love and Theft will perform at the Ritz Theatre, 30 S. Washington St., Tiffin, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 31. It has been an exciting year for ACM/CMA/CMT-nominated country duo, Love And Theft.