
Kelly’s Heroes
Amery’s legendary coach guides Warriors to first state wrestling title Mike Kelly has done it all. After years of individual championships, three decades of wrestling in places as far away as…

Boys Basketball Roundup
Sometimes life just isn’t fair. Take the Grantsburg Pirates for instance. The senior-dominated Pirates racked up a 13-2 season record and won the Lakeland West Conference title with a 9-0…

Saints come marchin’ in; Searching for first state trip
You know what they say. “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.” But the St. Croix Falls Girls Basketball Team is out to change all that — and they will begin…

Merlin the Magician
Grantsburg loses the man with his thumb on the community and education in his heart. Merlin Johnson, 1930 – 2021Did Merlin Johnson have a philosophy about life? If he did,…

Girls Basketball Roundup
Earney now Ellsworth’s all-time leading scorer Autumn Earney is now the all-time scoring leader at Ellsworth High School after she scored 18 points in a 60-51 loss to Somerset to…

Pirate ship sailing under full steam
•Big center reaches rebounding mark, heads for scoring milestone. Four years ago a group of young men began their basketball travels aimed at succeeding together on the hardcourt. This year…

The day I met Hank Aaron
Spending days catching the rubber ball bouncing off the side of our house like Willie Mays, smashing rocks over the pasture fence as Hank Aaron, or rounding the wooden-plank bases…





