WORTHINGTON — The Upper Sandusky High School competition cheerleading squad won a state championship for the second year in a row, and the Upper Sandusky Middle School and Little Rams cheerleading squads also were crowned as champions Sunday at Worthington Kilbourne High School.
Students at Upper Sandusky High School will have the choice of taking release time Bible education classes next school year after the school board unanimously approved a new policy during its meeting Monday evening. Representatives of WyandotCARES and WeCARE for Students visited the school board to present information about release time religious education in the school district.
Jeff Pelfrey, a maintenance worker at Kimmel Cleaners, shovels the sidewalk in front of the North Sandusky Avenue business after snow blanketed the city with between an inch and 2 inches of snow overnight.
MARION — Upper Sandusky’s boys and girls won the team championships Saturday in the Division II Public Schools Small School Invitational at W. Keith Davis Natatorium at the Marion YMCA. Upper Sandusky’s girls won by a single point over Columbus Bexley, 487-486, and the boys won with a 399-361 advantage over second-place Galion.
CAREY — As the Gliding Stars of Findlay made their way to the front of a crowd gathered at Vaughn Industries on Friday, their excitement was palpable. As young Jordan Rinker told the group, they “just want to play baseball.”
A Columbus man was arrested after being found with more than 1,200 prescription pills during a traffic stop Saturday night on U.S. 23 near Commerce Way. Anthony D. McGuffie, 22, was stopped by the Upper Sandusky Police Department K9 Unit at 9:10 p.m. for one headlight and no license plate light, according to a report by the USPD.
Upper Sandusky outplayed the second best team in the Northern 10 Athletic Conference in every area it seemed. It netted 10 more field goals. It created turnovers.
No injuries were reported when a Chevrolet Tracker driven by Virginia Conn, of Upper Sandusky, hit an icy spot and rolled onto its side Friday morning while Conn was traveling up a hill on Reservoir Road just after turning from East Wyandot Avenue.
It was a bittersweet Sunday for regular parishioners of North Salem Lutheran Church last week when they gathered for the final worship service at the church and then traveled to St. Paul Lutheran Church to attend the first service of the combined church.
Nevaeh Bentley Barclay was the first baby born at Wyandot Memorial Hospital in 2016. She arrived at 11:27 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5, weighing 6 pounds, 10 ounces and measuring 19.25 inches long.