We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
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Long before the first tip-off of the winter season, the work that shapes a basketball team is already underway, often in quiet gyms, on summer weekends, in games that don't count in any standings. That was the scene in Chester and Joplin on June 26 and 27, where more than two dozen boys and girls teams gathered for a two-day summer tournament hosted by CJI's basketball program. To a casual fan it might have looked like ordinary basketball, but summer ball runs by different rules and serves a...
In Joplin, a 55-year story of weeds, wind and community pride reaches a new milestone with the dedication of a Veterans Wall of Honor. It started with a troop of unruly boys and a field full of weeds. Fifty-five years ago, Priscilla Pimley, a Scout leader looking for a way to burn off her boys' excess energy and teach them to work for the good of the town, marched them over to an empty lot in the center of Joplin and put them to work pulling weeds. She didn't know it then, but she was planting...
Several area football players closed their high school careers on a statewide stage last week, representing their schools in Montana's Class C all-star football games. Chinook's Ayden Alisch, R.J. Engstrom and Griffen Crowley suited up for the Red team in the 42nd Bob Cleverley 8-Man All-Star Football Game, while Chester-Joplin-Inverness standouts Ryland St. John and Cooper Streit joined North Star's Parker Hansen and Riese Sattoriva on the Blue team in the 30th annual Montana 6-Man All-Star...
