Winners of the Holiday Window Decoration contest are as follows: • Best overall Just Because Flowers, Gifts, first place; and The Joshua Cup, second place • Best …
Are your ready to enjoy an art-filled, joyous stroll through beautiful downtown Crawfordsville? On Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. red balloons will mark the businesses with art in their …
With the summer coming to a close that means the travel baseball and softball season have wrapped up here in the area. With plenty of travel teams having success this summer, there was one that can …
Joe Chamness: the boy who could fly
By Butch Dale • • • •
EDITOR’S NOTE: Popular columnist Butch Dale has offered to share some stories about Montgomery County sports. This is the sixth of those stories.
Before consolidation, most of the small county schools only had three sports . . . basketball, baseball and track (although in the 1960s, two or three schools started 8-man football teams). I loved participating in basketball and baseball . . . but track? Not so much. I ran in various events in junior high, but I could never get excited about the sport. However, as an 8th grader my attitude changed when I watched the Montgomery County high school track meet at Wabash College in the spring of 1962.