This week's Logan County heroes, the Lincoln Railer basketball team. Sitting, left to right: Edward Bowlby, Jordan Perry and Austin Krusz. Standing: Joey Olden, Payton Ebelherr, Max Cook, Garrett Aeilts, Gavin Block, Adam Conrady, K.J. Fry, Bobby Dunovsky, Aron Hopp, Tyler Horchem, Bryson Kirby, Sam Tiffany and Will Cook.

On Saturday, this team made LCHS history, taking first runner-up in the state basketball championship. Congratulations once again to these spectacular young men; head coach Neil Alexander; assistant coaches Eric Ewald, Gregg Alexander, Brandon Farmer, Josh McClallen, Louis Schonauer and Alan Leigh; athletic trainer Missy Anderson; and athletic director Sam Knox for an amazing 34-3 season. Well played!

And, congratulations to the Railer families, friends and fans who supported the team to this great accomplishment. It took a Railer Nation.

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Five Zion Lutheran School students recently participated in the Lutheran High School Math Bowl in Springfield. Emily Messner and Katie Hunsley won first place in the eighth-grade division. Will Messner and Greyson Rademaker tied for first in the sixth-grade division. J.R. Lynn participated in the fifth-grade contest.

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It has finally happened! The snow pile is completely gone! Let's recap. The first technically large snow of 2014 fell on Jan. 4 and 5, followed by extremely cold weather for several days afterward. The cold continued throughout January, February and much of March. We started watching our pile on Feb. 7, and within the first couple of weeks it actually got larger as more accumulating snows fell.  Our tiny pile finally went completely away over the weekend, but it took 81 days for it to happen. As we said when we started this little daily ritual, ours was not the largest pile in town, just the one most accessible. Amazingly enough, there are still piles out and about in the community, but hopefully they, too, will soon disappear.

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This image, courtesy of Miami Beckham United, shows an artist rendering of a proposed stadium for a Major League Soccer team backed by retired English soccer star David Beckham. The group's preferred location for the arena is between Biscayne Bay and downtown Miami, Fla.

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