MOUNT BLANCHARD — After grabbing eight offensive rebounds in the first quarter, the North Baltimore girls basketball team only managed four offensive rebounds the rest of the way. But two of them came at a critical time.

For the 20th year in a row, The First Citizens National Bank is presenting Wyandot Memorial Hospital’s Comedy Night to help with priority patient-related projects at WMH. Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks No. 83, First Federal Bank, Kimmel Corporation, Beerco, Delta Dental of Ohio, Morral Excavating and Wilson Tire Co. are co-sponsoring the annual wintertime event scheduled for Jan. 19 and featuring headliner comedian Andy Hendrickson.

After a lengthy investigation into breaking and entering and grand theft of a firearm from a federally licensed firearms dealer, three juvenile suspects have been arrested and charged for the incident. Because the suspects are juveniles, the names are not being released.

Regina Vent, broker and owner of Regina Vent Realty LLC, was awarded Realtor of the Year at the Heartland Board of Realtors holiday luncheon in Findlay. Considerations for this award include involvement on the local board, for which she served as the 2018 president, and service at the Ohio Association of Realtors, civic activities and business and educational experience.

The Wyandot County Commissioners and Ohio Department of Transportation are seeking public comment in a meeting at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 17 at the Wyandot County Courthouse. The meeting will discuss ODOT’s recent decision to close the CH 50 and CH 121 intersections on the U.S. 23/U.S. 30 corridor north of Upper Sandusky.

Wyandot County sports teams had both regular season and postseason successes in 2018 in sports from every season of the year.

Voting has concluded for the top 10 stories of 2018 in Wyandot County among the staff at the Daily Chief-Union, and there are a wide variety of topics this year with a mix of both good 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.

Last season, the Shelby boys basketball team ended the Upper Sandusky boys basketball team’s streak of 49 consecutive regular season victories. On Saturday, the Whippets ended another one of the Rams’ long winning streaks.

BUCYRUS — As well as Upper Sandusky coach Jerry Vent feels the Upper Sandusky girls basketball team has executed on defense, one area he hoped to see improvement in was for the Rams to get in passing lanes more often in order to force turnovers.

With the success of the Upper Sandusky community Christmas tree last year at Stepping Stones Park, Upper Tree group founder and local resident Bill Caine had high hopes for the second go-around in 2018. Those hopes were realized for the most part, Caine said.