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  A global pandemic couldn’t stop one of the area’s longest-running traditions as the Pleasantville Fourth of July tournament will be held this year. While most summer events have been cancelled and the Pleasantville celebration itself has been cut down, six teams will compete for the annual...

The WIAA released guidelines for member schools to resume summer athletics, effective July 1. (Times photo by Andrew Dannehy)

Last week the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) released guidelines for member schools to resume summer athletics, effective July 1. The document, available in full on the WIAA website, addresses several points of emphasis including: face coverings, acclimating athletes back to...
  It’s safe to say many of us are not having the 2020 we each hoped we would. Leaders in particular have been faced with some of the most difficult dilemmas and decisions imaginable this year, but few in the sports world are showing themselves to be more incompetent in the face of these challenges...

Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau graduate Bailey Schmidt has concluded her golf career after playing at Viterbo University for four years. (Submitted photo)

For Ettrick native and class of 2020 Viterbo University graduate Bailey Schmidt, her career on the V-Hawks’ women’s golf team will be remembered as much for the trips to meets as her performance at any one of them. “There was never a dull moment with (my teammates) and it was always an interesting...
Whether or not the Whitehall Wolves or Osseo Merchants will take the field this season could be decided this week. Chippewa River Baseball League officials announced via social media that they would meet on Wednesday of this week to determine the “feasibility” of playing in 2020. The start of the...
  Nearly three years ago in this column space, I claimed that the athletes who kneeled for America’s national anthem were as American as those who decided to stand. That the right to express dissent was as patriotic as engaging in a recently established cultural norm. I was wrong. The last couple...
  When it comes to decision makers in the National Football League, the old adage is to judge them by what they do, not by what they say. So what should we make of the Green Bay Packers drafting a quarterback in the first round? The logic is simple enough to follow. Teams lie in public so they don’...

After not coaching for most of the last decade, Bärry Schmitt was re-hired as the Independence/Gilmanton football coach.             (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)

  Picking up the head coach’s whistle again was always in the post-retirement plans for Independence School District superintendent Bärry Schmitt. With the Independence/Gilmanton head position vacant headed into the fall, now seemed as good a time as any. “As I near that point in my administrative...
For Ettrick native and class of 2020 Viterbo University graduate Bailey Schmidt, her career on the V-Hawks’ women’s golf team will be remembered as much for the trips to meets as her performance at any one of them. “There was never a dull moment with (my teammates) and it was always an interesting...

Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau graduate Madison Doerr finished her basketball career at Viterbo University with her brother, Mitchell, working as an assistant coach for the team. (Submitted photo) 

Pickup basketball games between Madison and Mitchell Doerr while they were growing up in Trempealeau were competitive, physical affairs. “Many games were played where there were no fouls allowed to be called, which paid off in the long run,” Mitchell explained. “After one of her games during a WSN...

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