Fostoria-area beekeeper Joshua Tolento has rolled out the first production batch of his 2026 Sierra Chocolate Surge coffee-infused honey, made with honey from The Mindful Beekeeper’s own hives and fair-trade coffee roasted in-house.
The Mindful Beekeeper, a Fostoria-area live honeybee removal and relocation business, says it completed 37 honeybee colony relocations in 2025 and 2026, moving colonies out of walls, chimneys and other structures to its Seneca County apiary instead of exterminating them.
Update: The National Weather Service has upgraded its Freeze Watch to a Freeze Warning for Seneca, Hancock, Wood, Sandusky, Wyandot, Lucas, Ottawa and Huron counties from 1 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 18. Lows as cold as 30 are expected, enough to kill tender plants.
Most Wood County communities, and Fostoria, hold trick-or-treat Saturday, Oct. 31. Fostoria’s is 5:30 to 7 p.m. North Baltimore goes Thursday, Oct. 29, and Risingsun and Stony Ridge go Saturday, Oct. 24.
Fostoria is replacing stone and older mulch with recycled rubber surfacing at the playgrounds in City, Foundation, Gray, Jackson and Harmon parks this week. The city asks people to stay out of playground areas while crews and equipment are working.
Fostoria’s Halloween Parade steps off at 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, with a costume contest after at the Municipal Building. Parade entry registration closes today, Oct. 16. Trick-or-treat is Oct. 31 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
A federal cocaine case tied to a downtown Fostoria gym, a September indictment naming five defendants, and a string of METRICH search warrants that ended with an Oct. 13 arrest on North Wood Street. Here is where Fostoria’s 2026 drug cases stand.
Starting Monday, Oct. 19, the drive-thru drop box for water payments at the Fostoria Municipal Building will be closed for about two weeks because of construction. Online, in-person, mail and front-entrance drop box options remain.
Seneca County residents can drop off up to 10 tires free at Foundation Park on Oct. 24. Fostoria trick-or-treat is 5:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31.
Charter Steel’s plant on U.S. 23 north of Fostoria was evacuated Wednesday morning, Oct. 14, after what the company called an incident. No injuries were reported, and the cause has not been released.
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