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Huntington North High School has produced some outstanding athletes. They have had individual state champions in golf and wrestling, produced an Indiana Mis...

In 2006, Rex Grossman was quarterbacking the Chicago Bears to an appearance in the Super Bowl. He was well-known in Indiana for his record-setting career at ...

I had two connections with Chris Schenkel. I went to Wawasee High School, where one of my classmates was John Schenkel, Chris’ son. John and I had been on th...

There are times as a journalist that you know you’ve got a great story.

This one, you almost had to be there to believe it. I was there, saw it happen, and maybe still don’t believe it. But it was my job to tell the story. ——— Ni...

Huntington North has won two girls basketball championships, and those two teams are obviously beloved by the community. But the next-most celebrated team is...

My first encounter with Bob Hammel came when I was still working as a photographer for the Exponent newspaper at Purdue. I was with writer Duane Schuman at t...

When you are the sports editor of a small-town newspaper covering just one high school, it can be difficult at times. You get to know the coaches and adminis...

Don Sherman set to retire as HNHS coach I don’t think the group had an official name, but they were a unique club. They all coached high school baseball in I...

This is a photo that means a lot to me. It represents 70 years of Huntington journalism. George Frye, in the center, started at the Herald-Press in 1938, and...

Sometimes a story I wrote went beyond the sports arena. Athletics might be a part of the story, but the narrative is much larger. For a story I did on the Hu...

There were a handful of times in my newspaper career when an event I was covering had just more meaning than it normally would. It was a special moment in ti...

When I started at the Herald-Press, Huntington North High School was a part of the Olympic Athletic Conference. The OAC ranked only behind the legendary Nort...

I came to Huntington in 1987, straight out of Purdue. I joined the Herald-Press as a photographer, and I was pretty good. But I had also written articles whe...

Amy Bowers runs again after nearly losing her leg in accident Some of the most rewarding stories I’ve written have been where athletes have overcome the odds...