Monthly Archives: February 2009

Exciting Time of Year

The postseason for the winter sports teams are just around the corner. The postseason has arrived for wrestlers with regionals on tap across the state Friday and Saturday.
The top four finishers in each weight division advance to next week’s state tournament. The Cyclone wrestlers are coming off a second-place finish at the Frontier League Tournament. [...]

Kudos to OHS girls squad

For awhile the college women’s basketball programs have had a night to benefit breast cancer. They bring attention to a disease that can be deadly.
The movement is no longer at the collegiate level. The Ottawa High School girls basketball team has organized an effort to benefit cancer and give the proceeds to the Frankin County [...]

A view to the past

 
Trish Peterson, property manager at Washburn Towers Apartments, recently had a master key made to open the lockers in the old school building. The building used to house Ottawa High School and Middle School. At the time it was abandoned it was being used as Ottawa Junior High. In 2006 the building was repurposed as [...]

Signing time

The first week of February marks the opening of college signing season. It coincides with the first day that NCAA allows high school seniors to sign with colleges.
Not only do football players sign, but other sports also get in on the act at all levels. But this week is just the beginning.
The local high school [...]

Super Super Bowl

For many years, Super Bowls were busts. The hype never measured up. Super Bowl XLVIII will be one for the ages.
It had everything. What drama from start to finish. First it matched the NFL’s most storied franchise in the Super Bowl era against one of the most woeful teams in history.
The fourth quarter was everything [...]