Month: May 2023

FREDONIA — Razor-thin margins were common Thursday as several Humboldt High track and field athletes punched their tickets to state. Humboldt’s Peyton Wallace and Mateo Miller led the Cub charge at Thursday’s Class 3A Regional…

After a day of skiing in December, my then-13-year-old son made a pitch to me while we were sitting in a hot tub in Colorado. Surrounded by knee-deep snow, he asked if I would let…

COLONY — Trevor Church has been a mainstay on the pitching mound for the Crest High baseball team the past four years.  In his first six starts on the mound, the left-handed senior didn’t allow…

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — In a modern conservation laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, a man wearing blue rubber gloves uses a scalpel to scrape away rust from the eyelets of small…

Back in 2012, actor Jon Hamm, a St. Louis native and a die-hard Cardinals fan, appeared at a Wiffle ball event at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., hosted by three celebrity Royals fans: actors…

Allen County area softball junior college athletes were recently named to the All-KJCCC Division II/Region VI teams for their work this spring.  Allen Community College’s second baseman Brooklyn Goehrig earned First Team All-Conference.  Goehrig had…

There’s an adage that the older one gets, the more their true core emerges.   There were hints Dave Ensminger’s life would unfold in a positive fashion.  Such as when he attentively fed his mother…

ERIE — The Allen County Special Olympics team participated in the Erie Track Meet on May 3. Ty Johnson, Casey Riebel and Ian Webber competed for the local team.  Johnson took first place in the…

Jesse Jack Sample performed his songs in public for the first time at an open mic night only a couple of years ago.  Now, at the age of 44, he has released an album and…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Mage’s path through Triple Crown season is not an easy one. The Kentucky Derby winner opened as the favorite for this weekend’s Preakness Stakes, but Mage will have to top a field…