Area Sports

St. Anthony’s Church at Lively Grove will not host its annual church picnic in August due to COVID-19. Instead, the church is holding monthly quilt/cash raffles. The quilt raffle was a tradition at the picnic.   An event to celebrate Addieville’s 150th anniversary will be delayed a year. Several organizations were planning the event.

Nashville’s Memorial Park Pool reopened Monday, though restrictions are in place for the public pool. It will be a short season for the pool, which is normally open from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. But as with most things, the coronavirus pandemic changed what normal means. The pool will be open on a…

Local high school athletic programs were able to get back underway under Phase 4 Return to Play Guidelines following an announcement by the Illinois High School Association. Return to Play Guidelines were developed by the IHSA Sports Medicine Advisory Committee and were shared with member schools last month, and the new guidelines went into effect…

Over the course of the last few months, the public has been faced with disappointment, unknowns, and anticipation. This week, all of those things take a back seat to reality as the Blue Racer season has begun.The team is coached by Steve Browne and Karrie Kujawa. Browne has been on the board for six years,…

  It is Christmas time nearly a decade ago, and eight year old Caleb Klein is unsure of what he wants to see under his tree. “I wasn’t sure what I wanted that year,” recalled Klein. Little did he know, the pogo stick he received that morning may have start- ed him down the path…

By Garrett Krohne sports@nashnews.net What were you doing between the months of November and March in 2007? For me, I was struggling to pass 5th grade Math at Okawville Grade School. A short ten miles down the road, the Hornet basketball team was not only passing, but they were defending and scoring as well, and…

For six years former Okawville residents Brian and Becky Schrader have helped improved the lives people in one of the poorest countries in the world. They work in Chad, Africa with a Christian interdenominational organization called Pioneers. Brian is the team leader of a group that is involved in medical and dentistry work, veterinary care,…

Caleb Klein did not just break a record for hands-free pogo jumps in Nashville Sunday. The teenager from DuBois positively shattered it. With more than two straight hours of jumping, Klein more than doubled the previous record of 6,100 jumps on a pogo stick Sunday afternoon in front of Nashville Community High School. “The current…

The Addieville Area Jaycees will be sponsoring Monday Night Softball for kids starting June 29. The slowpitch softball games are for kids going into first through eighth grades and will be played at the Addieville Community Club ball park. Players in first through fourth grades should bring equipment and arrive by 6:30 p.m. Teams will…

By: Garrett Krohne sports@nashnews.net Last week, we took a look back on the first team to win State in the history of Nashville’s storied tradition. This week, we will continue the theme of “State Champions” as we remember the 2013 Hornette basketball team. With Wayne Harre under center, the team finished with an overall record…