BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com Thoughts of gingerbread and sugar plums may be leaving the minds of St. Joseph residents, but the setting for a Christmas tale is coming to life at Geschenk Boutique and Coffee and Tea Haus located at 228 E Lincoln St. Robin Christian, a screenwriter who has […]
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Kroner’s Picks: Heritage (VGH) All-Decade Team (Fall)
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com We unveiled our winter-sport all-decade teams on Monday. Today, we check in for the fall-sport all-decade teams. Two of the Heritage/Villa Grove girls listed for fall-sport recognition received similar honors for the winter-sport season. They are Aliya Holloman and Micaela Childress. Keep reading, however, because there […]
Kroner’s Picks: St. Joseph-Ogden All-Decade Teams (Fall)
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com We unveiled our winter-sport all-decade teams on Monday. Today, we check in for the fall-sport all-decade teams. Seven of the St. Joseph-Ogden athletes listed for fall-sport recognition received similar honors for the winter-sport season. The six repeaters on the boys’ side are Andy Bensyl, Jack Cook, […]
Commentary: Magic on the Airplane
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com I love traveling on an airplane. I’ve only traveled this way about a dozen times in my 40 years, but each time I get into the pressurized tube that will fly tens-of-thousands of feet above the Earth, I am overcome with the immense magic of what […]
BSN Classic: VGH girls’ basketball places second, boys place fifth
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Villa Grove/Heritage Girls’ basketball The Blue Devils (13-3) won four of their five games in the BSN Classic, at Bismarck, and placed second. VG/H capped its performance with a final-game 52-33 triumph over a Unity team it had lost to earlier in the month by four […]
State Farm Classic: SJ-O girls place fifth, SJ-O boys place sixth
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph-Ogden Girls’ basketball The Spartans won three of four games at the State Farm Classic, taking fifth place in a tournament where none of the games were decided by more than eight points. In Saturday’s fifth-place game at Bloomington High School, SJ-O (13-4) trailed after […]
Oakwood Girls’ Basketball emerges as Consolation Bracket Champions, boys’ basketball results from Monticello
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Oakwood Girls’ basketball The Comets won their last three games in the State Farm Classic and emerged as the consolation bracket champions. After a 51-43 loss to Annawan in the first round, Oakwood ended the calendar year with a three-game winning streak. The team defeated El […]
Kroner’s Picks: Heritage (VGH) All-Decade Team (Winter)
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Twenty years ago, I was tasked with a challenge that was nothing less than daunting. My superiors at The News-Gazette asked me to select an all-decade team. They limited the choices to those individuals who had attended high school or junior college in Vermilion County. As […]
Kroner’s Picks: Oakwood’s All-Decade Teams (Winter)
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Twenty years ago, I was tasked with a challenge that was nothing less than daunting. My superiors at The News-Gazette asked me to select an all-decade team. They limited the choices to those individuals who had attended high school or junior college in Vermilion County. As […]
Kroner’s Picks: St. Joseph-Ogden All-Decade Teams (Winter)
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Twenty years ago, I was tasked with a challenge that was nothing less than daunting. My superiors at The News-Gazette asked me to select an all-decade team for the 1990s. They limited the choices to those individuals who had attended high school or junior college in […]