Hello friends, This week I have lots to write about and it’s all good, as I officially hit the trail that has me scheduled until the last day of Wisconsin’s gun deer season. First, the experience of not having wheels for three weeks has officially passed, as the Chevy Hotel went to heaven and two very good friends, actually three, took care of me. Graham and Nate Counihan are longtime friends,

Area teams, including Loyal-Greenwood (LG) and Neillsville-Granton (NG), convened at Levis-Trow Mounds Recreational Area west of Neillsville for the NG home cross country meet Sept. 12. The cool day featured overcast skies and on-again, off-again rain. “Although battling the weather a bit, the team ran well. [We had] some great performances from our top performers in Summer Smith, Connor Genteman

At home last Thursday, the Loyal Greyhound volleyball team demonstrated their abilities with a decisive win over Mondovi, three sets to none. The game began on a high note with Danielle Strey serving up 14 unanswered points for the Greyhounds. “Danielle has a great serve and we love when she gets to start us out in a game! She stayed consistent and we knew that we had to be prepared to answer

The Loyal-Greenwood (LG) and Spencer teams lined up to race in the Sept. 9 cross country meet at Colby High School. LG had five male finishers in the 5,000-meter run. The first to cross the finish line was Connor Genteman, who took 11th out of 73 runners with a time of 17:56.16. Next for LG was Cody Eckes, who placed 47th with a time of 21:11.79. Wyatt Mulvaney was about a minute-and-a-half after

The Loyal Greyhounds came up short in their most recent home game against the Colby Hornets, as the Greyhounds’ defense had a hard time holding the Hornets at bay. The Hornets scored frequently in the Sept. 8 game, starting with their second drive of the evening which ended in Brennan Geiger running 12 yards for a touchdown. The extra point by Bryan Camargo was good. Colby scored again before

An Arizona summer Hello all, Thursday, May 18, I had my last final of my senior year at UW-Stevens Point, headed home to say goodbye to my family, and by the morning of the 19th I was headed down to Whiteriver, Ariz. I had no clue what to expect out of my new job or the area I would be living in for the next three months. The only thing I did know was that I would be trading the comfort of my bedroom

From 1981 to 1987 I did an enlistment for the Wisconsin Air National Guard (WANG) at Truax Field, Madison, and I was a weapons loader on the A-10 aircraft. Back in 2000, I participated in a for-fun musky outing with several of my buddies from WANG for the first time and I have not missed since that year. As the years passed, our guardsmen numbers declined and many of my friends and family from deer

At its home quadrangular last Thursday, the Greenwood volleyball team came up short in a hard-fought battle against Northland Lutheran (NL). In the best-ofthree match, Greenwood got out to a strong start in the first set, scoring six consecutive points with Liv Lucas serving. Kayla Grambsch and Sarah Beth Reiff had kills for Greenwood. Eventually, NL started to bring it back, getting to within