The Grand Rapids High School football team held its 10th Victory Day gathering, with special needs folks from the area invited to spend the morning with the varsity team and cheerleaders, doing drills and scoring touchdowns.
After playing every football game on the road in 2022 while their oft-flooded field was being rebuilt, the Hancock Owls returned home on a day filled with memorable sights and sounds.
There was talk of something bad happening in New York City. I turned on the TV in the kitchen and saw a big black smoldering hole in the side of one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
From 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., around 220 students from 15 high schools in Minnesota gathered for a full day of instruction from a talented slate of 49 teaching artists.
The big picture will tell us that St. Anthony Village defeated Breck 39-7, but as we know the scoreboard is only one small part of the big story in high school activities.
Tartan High School assistant football coaches Randy Taylor and Jon Wessel are very close friends … even before Wessel gave Taylor one of his kidneys earlier this year.