Before the high school fall sports season comes to a final end, it’s worth highlighting something—actually someones—who achieved a remarkable feat over their four-year high school career. The four seniors on the Goessel High School volleyball have established a four-year won-loss legacy of 172 wins and only four losses. For you math whizzes out there, that equates to an average […]

Brittney Hiebert The top-seeded Goessel girls’ bid for a ticket to the state tournament fell just short in a 42-39 loss to No. 2 Rural Vista Saturday on the Bluebirds’ home court. The Bluebirds hosted a Class 1A, Division I sub-state tournament and had received a first-round bye, then defeated Little River in the semifinals to advance to the title […]

Sub-state basketball seedings for Centre, Goessel and Peabody-Burns were released Wednesday. Goessel will host a Class 1A, Division I sub-state, where the Centre boys have received the No. 1 seed and a first-round bye with a 14-5 record. The Cougars will await the winner of No. 4 Little River (11-9) and No. 5 Goessel (7-13), a game to be played […]

MarionCoSpellWinners2017-wide beetIt wasn’t a history contest, but Annalise Miller of Goessel Junior High remembered how to spell “Alamo,” and when she did she became the 2017 champion of the Marion County Spelling Bee. Christian Albin of Marion Middle School was the runner-up at the competition held Feb. 1 in the Marion Performing Arts Center. The pair were the last spellers […]

Cierra Nolte, Brittney Hiebert and Eden Hiebert attempt to block a Dighton attack during the Bluebirds’ first match of pool play Friday. Goessel defeated Dighton in three sets and went on to win the pool. The Goessel volleyball team finished third at the Class 1A, Division I state tournament Saturday. After sweeping their pool play matches, the Bluebirds faced top-seeded […]

The Goessel volleyball team will be the No. 1 seed in the Class 1A, Division I sub-state hosted by Peabody-Burns Saturday. The Bluebirds (35-1) will have a first-round bye, and will face the winner of the 2 p.m. matchup between No. 4 Peabody-Burns (6-21) and No. 5 Burlingame (4-22). The other half of the bracket features No. 2 Rural Vista […]

Click here to view 2016 state track photos of athletes from Canton-Galva, Centre, Goessel, Hillsboro, Marion and Peabody-Burns. Contributing photographers include: Don Ratzlaff, Janae Rempel and Phyllis Richert. Photos marked “PR” may be purchased from photographer Phyllis Richert. She may be reached by email at: phyl@photosbyphyl.com. View her website at: www.photosbyphyl.com

One of Wes Schmidt-Tieszen’s popular teaching methods is to portray key historical characters during his class. Here, he portrays Martin Luther Most career teachers may never realize the impact they’ve made during their years in the classroom, but Wes Schmidt-Tieszen has achieved at least one affirmation that will be both public and enduring. Last week, the veteran social studies teacher […]

The Goessel basketball teams? bids for state tournament berths fell one game short Saturday at the Class 1A, Division I sub-state hosted by Lebo. The girls lost to Waverly, while the boys lost to Lebo. Brittney Hiebert looks to set up a play during the first half against Waverly Saturday. Goessel lost, 43-34. Girls?No. 1 Goessel struggled from the field […]

Sub-state pairings for Canton-Galva, Centre, Goessel and Peabody-Burns have been released. Unless otherwise noted, first-round games will be played on the home court of the higher seed, while remaining games will be played at the host site. CANTON-GALVA Girls?The Eagles (11-9) have received the No. 3 seed in the Class 2A sub-state hosted by Ell-Saline. Canton-Galva will host No. 6 […]