Area Sports

Abby Doster powers through the Green City defense for two points in the Lady Tigers opener at the Schuyler County Shootout on Tuesday, July 7th. Emiley Dial was the leading scorer in SCR-I’s victory over Green City that kicked off a busy summer schedule for the Lady Tigers.

Are you obsessed over something? Has something gained your attention in such a way that you have made some drastic changes in order to accommodate that matter? Deer hunters do this all the time. I was just reliving the past season with a friend. He was telling me about a place where he hunted that…

Calesse Bair has been named a 2019-20 scholar-athlete by the Heart of America Athletic Conference for exceptional academic achievements at Graceland University. In order to qualify for this honor, a student-athlete must meet the following criteria: have a cumulative GPA of 3.40 or higher (on a 4.0 scale), have a minimum of 60 accumulated credit hours, have…

There is no doubt the freedoms I enjoyed as a child are no longer around. If a parent let their child do today what I could do back then, he or she would be brought before Social Services. It was not just my parents, but every parent in my neighborhood was the same way. For…

by Terry Rush That phrase rings familiar to those who have sung the great old hymns along the way. It is with focused concentration that we ponder the strength we verbalize in song. One of the things about Jesus that is both terrific and gratifying is that He knows the course to give us meaningful…

While it was just a summer scrimmage between a pair of neighboring schools, the first official return of a sporting event in Scotland County brought out a sizeable crowd to the Scotland County R-I softball field on June 25th as the Scotland and Schuyler County high school softball programs played a double header. Fans had…

submitted by Neta Phillips   The Fox Valley 2 Cylinder Club met at Memphis for their annual ride from Memphis to Edina. They stopped at Oren Erickson’s to view his tractors then onto Rutledge School for a delicious meal prepared and served by Rutledge School Restore Society (Elaine Forrester, Reva Triplett and Lonnie, Marlena Trueblood…

For over eighteen years there was one day that I looked forward to more than any other when it came to rest and time off. No, it was not Saturday or Sunday. It was Monday. While others longed for the weekend and loathed the thought of Monday, I was making plans for a day of…

Terry Rush Every person is more amazing than each realizes. Even when we are caught being selfishly obnoxious, such is the problem simply due to our trying to compensate for what self tends to perceive as inner lack. Regardless of role and position in life, every individual is packed with profoundicity… gloriously so. It takes…

I met Mike and some of my North Carolina friends for a day of fishing. Mike is a striper guide and I have been with him many times when he has put everyone on top of a school of these fighters. I’ve also noticed one of his best tactics for finding fish is not mounted…