Articles

Open Season: Follow the catfish food chain

Fishing is as simple or complicated as a person makes it. In its most basic form, willing a creature to ingest a dangling bait can mean nothing more than the proverbial hook, line and sinker.

• Ugly fish and dog

WF school board, parks to partner on project

Playground at Freedom site to be shared

Ty's Take: Spring tournaments begin Thursday

Girls tennis, track and field kick off three weeks of postseason play

• West Fargo baseball

A DATE WITH DESTINY

Softball postseason looms as Packers gun for 15th straight state title

• Brittany Rheault

Ty's Take: West Fargo waxes, wanes in week of competition

With the spring prep sports season on its downward slope, a pecking order of sorts has emerged between teams.

• Track and Field

RRVS drops green flag

Racing season opens two weeks earlier than 2011

One-of-a-kind display board a community effort

Moore Engineering, First International Bank, Packer Backers contribute funds for $63,000 electronic board

• New gym additions

Packers on par for another successful season

WF boys golf team wins first two conference meets

• Payton Johnson

Ty's Take: Packers continue to pile up track and field accolades

Also: Updates on baseball, softball, and girls soccer

• Devin Brogden

BACK WITH A BANG

The Shooting Park reopens in Horace; new owners focus on tradition, safety, fun

• Busy Sunday
• A round of trap
• Jesse Molstre

Columns

Open Season: Mystery menace more than mildly malicious

Apparently they’re delicious. Boiling them in a big pot with some choice seasonings and spices can be darn near heavenly. Or so I’ve been told. I wasn’t really thinking with my stomach when I saw the first one, up close and personal, a few weeks ago while on a family vacation to Lake Vermilion in northeastern Minnesota.

• Bait stealer

Ty’s Take: Legion two weeks from postseason

Just when it feels like the American Legion baseball season got rolling, already the end is in sight.

• Chance Bitzer

Ty's Take: WF boys soccer gets early 'wake-up call' vs. Riders

The West Fargo boys soccer team faced a fresh face last Tuesday, and grabbed a win to boot. But when battling a common foe two days later, the Packers fell apart.

Ty's Take: Summer over the hump

Need-to-know dates for West Fargo fall sports

Open Season: This new dog owner learning right along with pup

The first time we saw the puppy, my wife, Erin, and I knew he was ours.

• Remy on point
• Remington, a.k.a Remy

Open Season: Tough cooking goose or duck? With jerky, you're in luck

I still remember the first time I brought home a mess of ducks after a weekend trip to North Dakota. Beaming with pride, I plopped the Ziplocked bags of gutted birds on the kitchen counter and grinned ear to ear. “What do you expect me to do with those?” Mom asked.

• Finished product
• Layering on the dehydrator
• Prepping the meat

Open Season: If it seems to good to be true, it is – especially on fishing opener

As my grandfather, Vern Drechsel, skillfully played his first walleye of Minnesota’s fishing opener into the awaiting landing net, it donned on me that something wasn’t quite right.

• Fishing opener

Ty's Take: Ready or not, here postseason comes

Believe it or not, this week officially marks the beginning of the postseason, as track and field and girls tennis both kick off their conference tournaments.

• Bruenjes hits the pit
• Gehrig goes for gold
• Levin runs a leg

Ty's Take: Packers girls tennis right where it needs to be

It’s no secret that Grand Forks Red River annually is the team to beat in girls tennis. But just because the Riders are a daunting opponent, don’t think the Packers are going to roll over in competition.

• Girls tennis

Open Season: You never leave North Dakota empty-handed

Alaska has its fjords, Montana has the Rocky Mountains, and Minnesota has 10,000 lakes; but to experience pure, unabridged feelings of complete freedom, North Dakotans need look no further than their own back yard.

• Cows in a blanket...of fog