Wyandot County will save nearly $60,000 on its electric bill over the next three years after the county commissioners signed a new facilities electric agreement Thursday. Working through Palmer Energy Company, it was recommended the county sign with the electric supplier Dynegy Energy through May of 2021 at a rate of $0.0471 per kWh, with an estimated annual cost savings of $19,970 compared to the county’s current rate, which expires at the end of April.

SYCAMORE — Mohawk girls basketball coach Amy Kozel would love to have that second quarter back. With the game tied with eight seconds remaining in the first quarter, Upper Sandusky guard Megan Hensel set a screen for guard Abigail Fogle, who buried a deep 3-pointer near the Mohawk bench.

Robby Lee will now be able to help children forever. Ron Pool, spokesman for the Robert P. Lee Memorial Scholarship Fund, announced Wednesday that the fund had acquired endowed status through the Wyandot County Community Foundation after reaching its initial fundraising goal of $25,000.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Riverdale High School senior Emma Carter has never left the country. That is about to change. Carter is one of four Hardin County track and field athletes who were selected to represent Ohio and compete on the USA track and field team in the 30th annual Gold Coast Commonwealth Games held in Queensland, Australia, in July.

Upper Sandusky welcomed two new city councilmen Tuesday. John Walker and Aaron Korte were elected to council in November and were sworn in at the organizational meeting Tuesday afternoon.

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.