Loon Ridge Men’s League
The Asterisk Stays, at the Request of the Man It Cost Nothing
A motion to strike the smoke-week asterisk from the league record failed Thursday when the season points winner — who did not play that night…
Cross Country
Five Girls Ran Saturday
Pike fielded a complete girls’ scoring team for the first time since 2023 at its own home meet, two weeks after the volleyball coach asked her players in this newspaper to give up their Saturdays. Two of them did.
By Curt “Sonny” Halvorsen • September 22, 2026
There were five girls on the starting line Saturday morning on the pavilion course, which is one more than Pike has had at a cross country meet in three years, and four more than are required to make the arithmetic work out differently than it has been working out.
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The Drought
Twenty-Eight Days
No measurable rain has fallen on Misquah since August 25. The county is in moderate drought, the fire danger sign has said HIGH for two weeks, and…
The November Ballot
Thirty-One Absentee Ballots in the First Four Days
The clerk’s window opened for absentee voting Friday. Turnout so far is running ahead of 2022, the school board seat with nobody on it is still…
September 25
The Parade Will Unload at the Fire Hall, Which Solves It
Wednesday’s facilities walk-through found the one real conflict on Friday’s schedule — floats and Spelldown families arriving at the same lots in the…
The Loons of Big Pelican
SEPT. 21 — ONE.
The remaining juvenile was on the water Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Pike Football
Sandstone 28, Pike 14: The Bobcats Scored First and It Did Not Last
Pike opened with an eighty-yard drive and led 7–0 into the second quarter against a team that had outscored two opponents 62–14. The rest of the…
Second Avenue
The Ladder Is Gone and Nobody Is Going to Make a Thing of It
It leaned against the brewery for thirty-eight days, was advertised four times in these classifieds, and was removed Saturday morning by the man who…
Schools
Sixty-One Spellers, Six Folders, and One Man Who Has Been Practicing Since August
The first Doris Knutson Spelldown is Friday at 6:30 in the gym. The words come from her own Friday lists, the pronouncer has been saying them at a…