MOUNT BLANCHARD — For the past month, Riverdale engineering and physics students have been working on a Christmas light and music display for downtown Forest.

BUCYRUS — Wynford coach Jason Engel said Friday night’s opener looked like a typical first game, and that would be hard to deny. It featured sloppy play at times, tons of foul calls and missed open shots.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — A lopsided first quarter was all the Carey boys basketball team needed Friday to earn some revenge against Riverdale 83-58 in the opening game of the 2017-18 season. Carey smartly put the ball in the hands of 6-foot-7 forward Hayden Stone early.

Even when it seemed like nothing was going the Rams’ way, their lead was substantial enough to hold on. Upper Sandusky may have set a record for number of fouls committed in a boys basketball game, but key free throws by the Rams and timely misses down the stretch by Willard helped the Rams secure their 60-49 victory over Willard on Friday at Upper Sandusky High School.

CAREY — To continue playing the sport he has loved since he was 6 years old, Carey High School senior Trey Bame on Friday signed a national letter of intent to play baseball at the University of Findlay.

Jennifer and Jared Frey posed at the North Pole sign Thursday evening at the Upper Sandusky Fantasy of Lights walk-through at Harrison Smith Park with their children Kelsey, Kamryn and Lane.

The featured display this year at the Upper Sandusky Winter Fantasy of Lights is “Arose such a ladder” for the Upper Sandusky Fire Department. The Fantasy of Lights begins today and lasts until Dec. 30.

FOREST — The village of Forest will celebrate the third annual Charlie Brown Christmas on Sunday, an event that has expanded from its humble beginnings. In 2014, organizer Becky Taylor recalled, the village’s Community Improvement Corporation was looking for ways to promote its downtown businesses for the Christmas holidays.

CAREY — Down 13 in the fourth quarter, Old Fort made it close in the end, but Carey held on for a 47-43 victory in a non-conference girls basketball game Thursday night. Amber Nash hit a pair of free throws with 5:27 remaining to give the Blue Devils a 43-30 advantage, but the Stockaders went on a 9-0 run in just a minute’s time to make it interesting.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — As impressed as first-year Riverdale girls basketball coach Emily Reynolds was with the Falcons’ accomplishments in her first varsity victory Tuesday as a coach, there was an area she wanted the Falcons to improve.