The Harrison Smith Park pond bridge is lit up as Santa’s Stable for Upper’s Winter Fantasy of Lights. While Christmas is over, the lights display continues through Saturday.

ATTICA — It’s something the Upper Sandusky boys basketball team does nearly every game, and during the Rams’ 74-50 victory over Seneca East on Saturday, it swung momentum in their favor and put them ahead for good. With the Rams trailing by five points with seven minutes remaining in the second quarter, Mason Vent buried a 3-pointer from the right wing.

BUCYRUS — It looked like another slow start may doom Riverdale’s girls basketball team. Then it didn’t and then it did again, but it in the end, the Falcons topped Bucyrus, 54-49, in a nonconference game of huge momentum shifts.

Something special is happening in Upper Sandusky’s Stepping Stones Park this holiday season. A small pine tree was chosen as a community tree for Christmas decorating less than two weeks ago on Dec. 11. It’s being called “The Upper Tree.”

ATTICA — As soon as Upper Sandusky senior guards Megan Hensel and Abigail Fogle found their shot, there was no stopping the Rams. With their team trailing by six points at the start of the third quarter, Hensel and Fogle combined to score 32 points and hit six 3-pointers in the second half as the Rams snapped their two-game losing streak...

CAREY — A raucous crowd at the Our Lady of Consolation School gymnasium witnessed its eighth graders battle a group of staff All-Stars Thursday afternoon in the inaugural Christmas Benefit Basketball Game. And it was all for a good cause.

Renovations are needed in the maternity department at Wyandot Memorial Hospital, and they are the priority project for the Wyandot Memorial Hospital Foundation’s annual campaign.

BUCYRUS — Wynford and Carey traded shots down the stretch Thursday night. Trey Bame and the Blue Devils made the most of having the last chance. Bame’s corner 3-pointer in the closing seconds gave Carey a 60-58 victory in a Northern 10 Athletic Conference boys basketball game that featured multiple big shots in the final minutes.

The Carey Kiwanis Club serenaded residents of the Wyandot County Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at noon Wednesday.

CAREY — The Upper Sandusky wrestling team may have left Carey High School with a 66-9 victory over the Blue Devils, but the Blue Devils saved their best for last. The final match, the 182-pound weight class, paired Carey sophomore Tanner May — a state placer as a freshman who had a 12-0 record this year entering the match — against Upper Sandusky senior Noah Clary, a returning state qualifier who is ranked third in Division II.