Robby Lee will now be able to help children forever. Ron Pool, spokesman for the Robert P. Lee Memorial Scholarship Fund, announced Wednesday that the fund had acquired endowed status through the Wyandot County Community Foundation after reaching its initial fundraising goal of $25,000.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Riverdale High School senior Emma Carter has never left the country. That is about to change. Carter is one of four Hardin County track and field athletes who were selected to represent Ohio and compete on the USA track and field team in the 30th annual Gold Coast Commonwealth Games held in Queensland, Australia, in July.

Upper Sandusky welcomed two new city councilmen Tuesday. John Walker and Aaron Korte were elected to council in November and were sworn in at the organizational meeting Tuesday afternoon.

CAREY — At the beginning of Tuesday’s Carey Village Council meeting, new member Dario Troiano and members Chase Fletcher, Anthony Fletcher and Bob Styer Jr. were sworn into their seats on council. Anthony Fletcher was also elected council president.

Members of Koda McKay Johnson’s family brought in the New Year with a masquerade ball for the Koda Bear Foundation at the Masters’ Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds.

Snow decorated the trees in a wintery scene to start 2018 on Monday at the Gerber farm east of Upper Sandusky.

ATTICA — A key question that remains for the Wynford boys basketball team — a team with five sophomores and two juniors — is how they can play with the same amount of intensity for all four quarters. Trailing by six points at the start of the fourth quarter of Saturday’s contest against the Seneca East Tigers, the Royals were outscored by the Tigers by nine points in the fourth quarter on the way to a 64-49 road loss to Seneca East on Saturday.

With Mohawk making a run in the fourth quarter, one play helped Upper Sandusky hold on. Mason Vent came up with a loose ball and dished inside for a Jevon Dible layup that helped stop the Warriors’ momentum as the Rams took over second place in the Northern 10 Athletic Conference with a 66-52 victory Saturday.

Voting has concluded for the top 10 stories of 2017 in Wyandot County among the staff at The Daily Chief-Union, and there is a wide variety of topics this year split almost evenly between good news and bad news. A team of six employees of the DC-U voted on their top picks, with the focus being on topics that had the most impact on Wyandot County residents.

As usual, Wyandot County athletes and teams accomplished a lot in 2017. There were many league and sectional championships, slews of individual accolades and great moments. But a few stood out above the others according to a vote by Daily Chief-Union employees. Carey softball reaches the state tournament CAREY — The Carey softball team made a surprising run all the …