MOUNT BLANCHARD — Having already made a three-quarter-court shot at the halftime buzzer, a 3-pointer from about 23 feet certainly was well within Brittany Hovest’s range.

Marathon Pipe Line LLC, a subsidiary of Marathon Petroleum Corporation headquartered in Findlay, is beginning construction on its newest addition to its transport services. A new pipeline will run from a location near Harpster and travel through Wyandot, Hardin and Allen counties to its destination at the Husky Refinery in Lima.

Buckeye Chuck saw his shadow during the annual Groundhog Day celebration this morning in Marion. Ohio’s official weather-predicting groundhog saw his shadow at 7:40 a.m., according to Paul James, program director at iHeart Media.

WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE — As a deficit continued to mount Wednesday evening, so did the frustration. Upper Sandusky lost its first six matches to fall behind 31-0 and lost a 46-24 decision to Whitehall-Yearling in the Division II Region 14 semifinals at Miami Trace Middle School.

CAREY — National Signing Day had a local impact this season. Carey senior Gavin Woods signed a letter of intent during school Wednesday to play football at Division II Tiffin University.

New state and federal mandates are forcing the Wyandot County Board of Developmental Disabilities to shake things up at Angeline Industries or risk losing $380,000 a year in government funding. The WyBDD currently serves 90 adults with developmental disabilites. Sixteen work in various jobs throughout the county, 22 are part of Angeline Industries mobile crew that works at an Ohio Department of Transportation rest stop, and 52 work in a sheltered shop at Angeline on CH 44 in Upper Sandusky.

KENTON — Two huge inflated rats met the workers on the Marathon pipeline when they came to work this morning at the former Rockwell plant site in Kenton. With the intimidating rodents were about 70 protesters from the Laborer’s International Union of North America with representative of the Pipeliners Local Union 798 and Ohio Laborer’s District Council.

CAREY — As he enters his 40th year in the business of selling automobiles, Rick Wagner is excited to bring customers a new and improved experience. With construction complete on a new car dealership on U.S. 23 entering the village of Carey from the south side, the Wagner Ford dealer is welcoming Wyandot County and the surrounding area to a grand opening event to kick off the year.

It was not Upper Sandusky’s best performance of the season, but it was plenty good enough for a 59-35 victory against Bucyrus and at least a share of the Northern 10 Athletic Conference championship. The victory, combined with Buckeye Central’s loss to Carey, gives the Rams (18-0, 13-0 N10) a three-game lead with three games remaining. A win in any one of them will clinch the title outright.

CAREY — It’s got to feel good when it all comes together. Carey knocked down open shots and made things hard for Jenna Karl and Buckeye Central in its rematch against the second best team in the Northern 10 Athletic Conference. The Blue Devils ran up a lead in each quarter of a 56-39 victory on their senior night.