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.

Christmas will be in full swing Friday evening in Carey. The Carey Area Chamber of Commerce’s 15th annual Christmas in Carey is set to take place 5-8 p.m. in the downtown area.

Carey Schools Superintendent Michael Wank was all smiles Tuesday morning with Carey sophomore FFA chapter sentinel Paige Blair at the blood drive at Carey High School.

Justeen Searfoss shops at Practically Perfect in Upper Sandusky before the start of the Ohio State-Michigan game during Small Business Saturday. An annual tradition, Small Business Saturday encourages shoppers to shop locally, which will keep money in the local economy and support local businesses and communities.

The village of Sycamore has two more EMTs. Sycamore Fire Chief Rodney Clinger swore in Brittany Dayton and Kevin Kozel as EMTs Tuesday evening at the Sycamore Village Council meeting.

Chad Sowers (above) and John Holman of Bill Sowers Tree Service & Nursery help wrap the trees in front of the Wyandot County Courthouse in Christmas lights on Tuesday afternoon.

The finished product for the Wyandot County Courthouse reveals strings of green and white lights around both tall pine trees. Bill Sowers Tree Service & Nursery helped with the right pine and Duane and Brian Frey of CSI Construction helped place the lights on the left tree.