All women invited to join for fishing, friendship and helping others By Jennie Zeitler, Staff Writer jennie.zeitler@mcrecord.com More than one-third of Minnesota is represented by members in Women Anglers of Minnesota (WAM), which is celebrating 35 years of friendship, fun and teaching the joy of fishing. Members of WAM live in 30 of Minnesota’s 87 counties, Read more »
By Tina Snell Staff Writer tina.snell@mcrecord.com The idea has been around for a few years, but Bill Boser, Little Falls, has taken the idea to a new level. He has taken the concept of bait from a vending machine and perfected the process. His newly created business is Northwood’s 24Hr Bait and Tackle. “This is Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com When senior Caleb Janson strolls through the hallways at Pierz High School, his peers look up to him. When he steps on the basketball court, they have to look up even higher. That’s because from the moment Janson leaps for the opening tip until the final seconds tick off Read more »
Guard Aimee Pelzer, junior, Upsala Pelzer, The Record’s Player of the Year, was a dynamic playmaker at both ends of the court this season, helping Upsala reel off a perfect 16-0 Prairie Conference record and a sub-section championship. Pelzer efforts were rewarded with a third conference Most Valuable Player Award and a spot on the Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Staff Writer patrick.slack@mcrecord.com Constructing cars with higher fuel efficiency is a growing trend in the auto world. However, a group of students at Swanville High School is preparing to take that to an entirely different level at the 24th annual Supermileage Challenge. The competition, held at the Brainerd International Raceway May 14 Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com Senior Dillon Kifer claimed it was 197. Head coach Mike Hendrickson said the total is only 196. They can be forgiven for having trouble keeping track of Kifer’s career win total, which has been growing by the match since seventh grade. Regardless, this much can’t be disputed: any discussion Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com A full house packed into Little Falls VFW Post 1112, Thursday, as a group of former and current standout players visited as part of the Minnesota Twins Winter Caravan. Featured Twins at the event were 2011 Hall of Fame inductee Bert Blyleven, Tony Oliva, Denard Span, Drew Butera, Rene Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com Ben Newman has spent his entire life dealing with having vision in only one eye. Compared to that, helping the Little Falls boys hockey team get back on track has been like a walk in the park. Or a skate in the rink. Newman was 8 months old when Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com Pierz junior Josh Lanners doesn’t consider himself a particularly fast or powerful running back. He’s just a dominant one. His success can be simplified to one thing: “The drive for the win,” Lanners said. That drive led to a standout season for Lanners, which helped produce conference and section Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com A set goes up on the volleyball court at Little Falls High School. Flyers senior Alayna Kabanuk gathers herself, times her jump perfectly and swings her arm violently through the ball, sending another kill skipping off of the opposing side of the court. Kabanuk pumps her fist, but is Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com Little Falls hockey players learn from a young age that taking part in the sport is hard. Players have to wake up early, brave the cold, lace up their skates, strap on their gear and get in an hour-long practice before school even starts. Any player from the peewee Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com When Grant Bell was put on the Little Falls varsity boys soccer team in eighth grade, some people thought it was because his mother was the head coach. They don’t now. Not after Bell, a senior midfielder for the 10-0 Flyers, drilled his 104th-career high school goal into the Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com Hall of Fame baseball player Cal Ripken Jr. did not miss a single game for 17 years. Parker Brezinka and Michael Petron have been alive for 12. While Brezinka and Petron have some work to do to catch up to Ripken as far as longevity is concerned, they have Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com Seven current and former Little Falls High School basketball players traveled to Costa Rica in June, competing in nine games as part of a mission trip. The ES Sports team, which featured 12 players on its roster, won all nine games, including four against junior national teams that included Read more »
By PATRICK SLACK Sports Editor patrick.slack@mcrecord.com Swanville’s Bonnie Shields photographs a fish during an underwater photography class, July 1, at the Crosby Mine Pit. Shields began scuba diving two years ago and now hopes to combine diving with photography as an occupation. Swanville’s Bonnie Shields wasn’t sure she wanted to even try it. Now she Read more »
