Chad Sowers (above) and John Holman of Bill Sowers Tree Service & Nursery help wrap the trees in front of the Wyandot County Courthouse in Christmas lights on Tuesday afternoon.

The finished product for the Wyandot County Courthouse reveals strings of green and white lights around both tall pine trees. Bill Sowers Tree Service & Nursery helped with the right pine and Duane and Brian Frey of CSI Construction helped place the lights on the left tree.

If the first week is any indication, another long winning streak may be on the horizon for the Upper Sandusky girls basketball team. Four — nearly five — players scored in double figures as the Rams pummeled Willard 72-50 on Tuesday at Upper Sandusky High School.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Riverdale’s girls basketball team got off to a slow start, missing its first five shots from the field against Hardin Northern on Tuesday night. Once the Falcons got going, though, there was little the Polar Bears could do to stop them.

The cookbook discussion group What’s Cookin’? held its monthly meeting Monday evening at the Upper Sandusky Community Library. The theme of the meeting was Thanksgiving leftovers and attendees were encouraged to make a new dish out of their leftovers from Thanksgiving for a potluck-style meal.

NORTH ROBINSON — Upper Sandusky’s boys swimming team opened the season Monday with a 57-37 victory at Colonel Crawford, while the Rams girls were defeated, 64-30.

Wyandot County Commissioners Bill Clinger and Steven Seitz and members of the Upper Sandusky Fantasy of Lights committee including Janice Woods, Irv Woods, Sharon McCarthy, Deb Sturgeon, JoAnn Adams-Moll, Linda Debolt, Larry Ratliff and Pat Althouse met Sunday afternoon at the former EMS building to prepare several strings of green and white lights for the Upper Sandusky Courthouse lawn.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Shots weren’t falling through the first three quarters, but Upper Sandusky warmed up just in time. Led by Megan Hensel, the Rams erased an eight-point deficit with six and a half minutes to go and downed Riverdale, 66-54, on Saturday night.

BUCYRUS — A day after a 49-point loss, Wynford girls basketball coach Amy Taylor-Sheldon wasn’t sure what to expect heading into Saturday’s contest against Ashland Crestview. After all, the young Royals were facing a Crestview team coming off of a 70-point victory over Hillsdale on Friday.

The Star Alley sign was reinstalled Friday afternoon in the alley next to the Star Theatre in Upper Sandusky by Eric Gottfried. Gottfried removed the sign at the start of Upper Sandusky’s sewer separation project a year ago with the intent of restoring it.