Teens caught in West Virginia after weeklong police search Two runaway teens from Wyandot County suspected of several crimes across Ohio and Pennsylvania were apprehended in New Martinsville, West Virginia, after a more than two-day standoff with authorities in the Pennsylvania hills, Sheriff Mike Hetzel confirmed Saturday. Read More
Hufford retires after 31 years at Mohawk SYCAMORE — Shirley Hufford has been a teacher at Mohawk Local Schools for 31 years. With most of it being with special education, Hufford said she has loved the kids and has seen a lot of them succeed in life. Read More
St. Peter School summer festival Activities for the St. Peter School summer festival will take place Friday and Saturday, starting with a 5K glow run and walk at Upper Sandusky’s Stepping Stones Park. Pre-festival activities include the run and walk, which starts at 8:45 p.m. Friday. Read More
Wind turbine coming to Harpster HARPSTER — One Energy Wind for Industry, Findlay, is funding more than $3 million for a wind turbine project at the location of Marathon Petroleum Company’s Harpster pump station. The turbine will generate more than 4 million kilowatt-hours annually and will offset more than half of the station’s electric consumption, according to a press release from One Energy. Read More
County veterans take to the skies for annual Flag City Honor Flight TOLEDO — The bus had no traffic to deal with early Thursday morning as Wyandot County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center marketing director Vicki Charlton drove to Sycamore, Bucyrus and Upper Sandusky to pick up five area veterans and their guardians for a special trip. Eddie Doss and his daughter Deb Kuhn, Bob Keller and his son Jay Keller, Flavel Heyman, Earl Kinley and his daughter Becky Howard and Wes Honsberger traveled to Findlay and meet with a much larger group for the Flag City Honor Flight. Read More
Upper Sandusky man takes top prize in annual ODOT ‘roadeo’ Wyandot County’s own Frank Zamora will head to Columbus after winning a district-wide contest that required maneuvering a truck and loader through obstacle courses in an event hosted by the Ohio Department of Transportation. Zamora has worked at the Wyandot County ODOT garage for many years. Read More
Man treks across US Jared Reichbaum is on a mission. He walked into Upper Sandusky Thursday evening, camped at Lincoln Hills Golf Course and spent Friday taking a break from his journey to play a few rounds of golf, after seven days of walking about 120 miles. Read More
Woman, injured in crash A Marion woman accused of driving while intoxicated was injured after striking a parked vehicle, a telephone pole and concrete steps during a crash Thursday evening at the intersection of Ohio 199 and CH 42 in Salem Township. Read More
County fair board responds to ODA ban of poultry shows The Wyandot County 4-H program is asking those taking poultry projects to the Wyandot County Fair to complete their projects, as the deadline to switch projects has passed, after the Ohio Department of Agriculture banned all live bird exhibitions in the state earlier this week. Read More
Mohawk BOE to meet in special session SYCAMORE — The Mohawk Local Schools Board of Education will have a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Mohawk Community Center. Read More