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May 27—TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City Central held on to an early lead to beat TC St. Francis at the Thirlby softball field Wednesday. The Trojans hopped out to a 7-0 lead in the second inning and held on through a late Gladiators rally to win the nonconference matchup 9-8. TC Central began the second inning with three straight singles before a run was walked in by the pitcher. Another single ...
May 27—TRAVERSE CITY — Teammates call Traverse City Central seniors Leah Doezema and Mackenzie Bohrer the 'Power Couple' for a reason. Both set meet records in discus and shot put at the 2021 Big North Conference Championships Wednesday at Traverse City West Senior High School. Central's girls program won the BNC crown with a team score of 212.66 and beat out West, who scored 188.33. The ...
A-C Central's Dirks, Smith set for Bass Fishing Finals Dennis Mathes, dmathes@myjournalcourier.com FacebookTwitterEmail It weighed in at 4.69 pounds. That’s a big bass — in fact, the biggest bass caught at the Sangchris Lake Sectional earlier this month. And a gigantic thrill for the fisherman who caught it — A-C Central’s Nate Dirks. “The pre-fish days, and the previous tournaments, we had not caught anything big at all,” Dirks said. “So when I hooked into it, I was excited. I was ecstatic. And my boat captain kept telling me to calm down and don’t crank it in, because I was...
Kim Webster builds bass fishing program at A-C Central Dennis Mathes, dmathes@myjournalcourier.com FacebookTwitterEmail 3of3 Former A-C Central band director Kim Webster knows a little bit about fishing, but not a lot about bass fishing. She wasn’t about to let a little thing like that stop her from taking on the job as head coach of the A-C Central bass fishing team. The team needed her. “I retired in 2015,” Webster said, “and one of the boys came to me and said, Web, we aren’t going to get to have a bass fishing team. Nobody will take it. Will you do it?”
A year later, schools still grappling with remote learning FacebookTwitterEmail Jacksonville School District 117 Superintendent Steve Ptacek gives a presentation in August on changes to the Illinois Department of Health’s guidelines and how those changes would allow a return to in-person learning. Journal-Courier More than a year after the pandemic shuttered Illinois schools, the vast majority of students have yet to return completely to the classroom — and more than 73,000 still are learning entirely remotely. In the 154 schools across west-central Illinois, 19,644 of the 51,967 stude...