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 …

On a night when her Upper Sandusky girls basketball teammates needed her the most, junior Madison McLaughlin stepped up. After Bucyrus junior guard Ni’Georia Floyd buried a 3-pointer from the left corner to tie the game with 1:07 remaining, McLaughlin received a pass from Alexis Fogle on a fast break and hit a left-side layup.

CAREY — Once Carey starting moving the ball well, it was able to get the ball inside to 6-foot-2 All-Ohioan Sydney Kin, she converted time after time, and the Blue Devils erased a fourth-quarter to deficit to defeat North Baltimore, 59-52, in overtime on Friday night.

Construction continues for Kimmel Corporation’s planned expansion in downtown Upper Sandusky. The city approved an alley vacancy and enterprise zone agreement earlier this year and construction began in mid-October.