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NORTHWEST IOWA — People from Plymouth County and surrounding areas are welcome to join Brotherhood, Trust and Love (BT&L) on the second annual Freedom Rock® Tour, Saturday, June 23. From Veteran Memorial Park in Le Mars, attendees will travel across northwest Iowa to the many Freedom Rock® memorials that pay homage to the local veterans who have served in the United States Armed Forces...

LE MARS — The Le Mars United Way Board of Directors has approved funding levels to local agencies for the 2018-19 fiscal year. This year $256,550 was awarded to 34 programs run by local agencies. Volunteers reviewed agency applications totaling over $350,000 in grant requests. ...

REMSEN — Harris-Lake Park came out on top of a 10-9 game which lasted eight innings against Remsen St. Mary’s on Monday, June 18. The high-scoring game saw RSM tie the game in the bottom of the seventh, only to see the Wolves score the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth...

AKRON — MMCRU was able to keep within striking distance of Akron-Westfield for the first three and a half innings. Then, the No. 4 Lady Westerners kicked it into high gear and pulled away for an 11-1 win in five innings on Friday, June 15. Emily Dreckman got the start in the circle for the Royals and made it out of the first inning unscathed, but the Westerners scored in each of the next four innings against her...

CLEGHORN — MMCRU used a two-out rally to earn a 9-8 walk-off win over Remsen St. Mary’s on Monday, June 11. After relief pitcher Hailey Klein got the first two outs of the seventh, a single from Natalee Henke and a double from Faith Olson gave the Royals the win...

PAULLINA — MMCRU dominated South O’Brien on Wednesday evening, June 13 as the Royals came away with a 13-0 victory in five innings. The Royals managed just five hits, but got baserunners on in other ways in the victory. The team started off the scoring in the second inning against South O’Brien starter Alec Wheeler. He hit a pair of batters and Dean Jenness drove in a run with a double. He came around to score on a fielder’s choice...

REMSEN — A leadoff home run from Derrick Schorg and a pinch-hit, game-ending round-tripper from Zach Ruden provided the bookends for a 16-1 victory in four innings for Remsen St. Mary’s over Harris-Lake Park on Monday, June 18. “With a couple days off and the weather being a factor, having to move up the game, I really give the kids a lot of credit for coming ready to play,” RSM coach Dean Harpenau said. ...

AKRON — With a pair of evenly-matched teams with similar records it’s not surprising that Friday’s (June 15) meeting between the Akron-Westfield and MMCRU baseball teams went to extra innings. In the end, the Westerners defended their home turf and won their fourth straight game, a season-long winning streak for the team. A-W won 4-3 in eight innings...

MARCUS — Blaine Harpenau threw a no-hitter for No. 5 Remsen St. Mary’s in a 2-0 win over MMCRU on Monday, June 11. The freshman was perfect until the sixth when he allowed his only baserunner on a five-pitch walk to Zack Bonnstetter. Harpenau ended with 11 strikeouts in the win...

PAULLINA/REMSEN — The South O’Brien softball team moved its record to 14-0 with a wins over MMCRU on Wednesday, June 13 and Remsen St. Mary’s on Thursday, June 14. While the Royals scored the second most amount of runs against the team this season, it wasn’t enough against the Wolverines who average 10 runs per contest. MMCRU fell 12-5 in the game...

IRETON — The Remsen St. Mary’s softball team ended with a 1-2 record at the West Sioux tournament held Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16. The Hawks started off the weekend with a win over Sioux City West as they doubled up the Wolverines 12-6 in four innings...

REMSEN — Class 1A No. 5 Remsen St. Mary’s quickly took care of South O’Brien on Friday night, June 15, with a 15-0 victory in four innings. The Hawks plated 11 of their runs in the second inning. The 15-run margin is largest for the team this season...

As part of the Ice Cream Days celebration in Le Mars, the Northwest Iowa Genealogical Society (NWIGS) will host a program billed “The Search for a Connection to Luxembourg.” The event will take place in the fourth floor study hall of the Plymouth County Historical Museum on Saturday, June 16, at 1:30 p.m. ...

Remsen’s Annual Kids Days, sponsored by the Remsen Chamber of Commerce, will be held on Mon., June 18 and Tues., June 19, 2018. Advance ticket sales for the carnival rides are now available at the following Remsen businesses: Iowa State Bank, American Bank, Burger Barn, the WesTel Systems office, and Thompson, Phipps & Thompson. Advance tickets can be purchased for $5.00 per sheet. Tickets will be $7.00 per sheet at the Carnival on Monday, June 18...

LE MARS - For the fourth year, the two log cabins at the Plymouth County Historical Museum will be in the spotlight during “Log Cabin Day” Saturday, June 16. Both the Weber Log Cabin of the Civil War era and the Joy Hollow Log Cabin of the 1890s will be honored...

REMSEN — After a 1-8 start to the season with their only win in that stretch against Remsen St. Mary’s, Gehlen Catholic Head Coach Tony Gunter told his team to forget about that and think of this week as the beginning of a new season. So far that new season has seen the Jays win each of their first two games including an 11-7 victory over their rivals on Wednesday, June 6...

ORANGE CITY — After scoring 14 runs against Clay Central-Everly in their last outing, the MMCRU softball team matched that in a 14-9 win over Unity Christian on Tuesday, June 5. Head Coach Kayla Foresman said she wanted her team to be the aggressor and score first and that they did with a five-run opening at-bat...

REMSEN — After a close one-run win over Gehlen Catholic in the first meeting of the season, Class 1A No. 5 Remsen St. Mary’s needed just five innings to come away with a 13-3 victory over their rivals on Wednesday, June 6. “We’ve been hitting the baseball pretty well, we’ve seen some quality pitching,” RSM coach Dean Harpenau said. “Our offense showed up. We took advantage of a couple of their mistakes, but we really hit the ball pretty well.”...

REMSEN — Hinton rallied for four runs in the seventh, but it wasn’t enough as Class 1A No. 5 Remsen St. Mary’s held on four a 9-5 win over the Blackhawks on Tuesday, June 5. Hinton struck first in the opening inning with an RBI groundout from Jacob Kirwan, but the Hawks had big innings in the second and fourth to jump in front 9-1...

HARTLEY — MMCRU met up with Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn in a pair of doubleheaders on Wednesday, June 6. The softball team kept up their high-scoring offense in a sweep of the Hawks while the baseball teams split games. The first softball game was a 12-9 victory for the Royals. Faith Olson led the team with three hits as she scored twice and also had 2 RBI...

Remsen Hawks hosted a Fifth/Sixth Grade Tournament on Saturday, June 9. Eight teams participated in two-round robin brackets. Teams playing in the fifth grade bracket were RSM Hawks, Le Mars Jaydogs, Dakota Valley Thunder, and Sioux Center. Teams playing in the sixth grade bracket were Northwest Legends, Le Mars Sanctuary Bulldogs, Alta-Aurelia, and Sioux Center. The RSM Hawks and Northwest Legends took first place in their brackets...

REMSEN — Akron-Westfield came to town on successive nights last week and left with a pair of wins over Remsen St. Mary’s. The softball team won 12-0 in five innings on Thursday night, June 7 as 12 hits and eight walks fueled the offense for the Westerners...

LAKE PARK — MMCRU picked up a pair of wins over Harris-Lake Park on Friday, June 8. The Royals got a 7-6 win in eight innings in the softball game. After the Wolves scored twice in the bottom of the first, MMCRU put five runs across in the top of the second. The team held the lead until H-LP tied the game in the fourth. Both teams went scoreless the final three innings of regulation before MMCRU pushed across the go-ahead and eventual winning run in the eighth...

ORANGE CITY — MMCRU Head Coach TJ Schaefer wanted his team to take a different approach at the plate so he did a couple things to create that change. The first was having Cody Ege, a Cherokee native and MLB player, talk to his team about the mental approach to the game. The second was shuffling the lineup to put Tristen Olson in the leadoff spot and moving Chris Schmid down to give him more opportunities to drive runs in...

MMCRU - Remsen Kindergarten Graduation for the 2017-2018 school year took place on Thursday, May 24, 2018.