February 2022

While their male counterparts were extending and enhancing their program’s long and outstanding tradition of state-level success last weekend with two individual state champions, three other medal-earners, and a third-place team finish, Brookfield High School’s fledgling Lady Bulldogs wrestling program was initiating its own budding tradition of mat excellence. Having qualified three wrestlers – its most ever, for the single-classification girls’ state tournament at Columbia, two of them – BHS senior Oscarina Jackson (right and in action photo) and freshman Riley Howell (left) – earned state medals. Howell captured fifth place in the 159-pounds weight division and Jackson sixth at 174. Jackson made her second appearance in the state tourney where, last year, then-teammate Zoey Chrisman earned Brookfield’s first girls’ wrestling state medal when she took fifth place in her division (174). (Jackson action photo by Martin Cupp/LCL; posed photo by Paul Sturm/LCL)

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Kennedy Chandler scored 23 points to lead No.

MEADVILLE — It was an all-Linn County affair when the Class 1 District 12 high school basketball tournament’s girls’ champion was decided Thursday night, thanks to Monday night triumphs by the replenished host and Linn County’s Lady Mustangs.

MARCELINE — Borrowing from their school’s successful football heritage, which a number of them have helped sustain, the Marceline High School basketball Tigers utilized a stonewall defense to extend their 2021-22 season last Monday.

The area’s Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge will reopen to the public next Saturday, March 5. The refuge is closed each year from late October to the first Saturday in March to provide undisturbed habitat for migrating and wintering waterfowl, the primary purpose for its construction many years ago.