Articles with the Tag: Ronan
Editor, I am writing this letter because as I read Gale Decker’s letter to the editor of the Valley Journal, I became very angry. I just need to tell you that I know my brother pretty well, and I know that he is a person of integrity and honesty. He would not bring any allegations against the school...
RONAN- Lee Lytton has trained more than 3,000 horses over the past 40 years. He says he’s learned the trade from a great many people and combined their ideas into a step-by-step, surefire progression culminating in an animal that is respectful, confident and useful. Even so, training a horse is no s...
RONAN — Patsy Anderson and Jessie Merwin were the featured quilters at the Mission Mountain Quilt Guild Quilt Show on Aug. 2-4 in the K. William Harvey Elementary School gym. Anderson and Merwin brought in about 40 quilts they’ve made over their quilting years. Patsy Anderson A n...
The sun was just begining to set on a crisp Saturday night in Ronan. The air carried the smells of autumn, turning leaves and the promise of winter as cowboys, ranchers and audience members alike looked to the stadium’s center. Standing in the middle of Ronan’s rodeo grounds, the announc...
“She never stopped looking for him. He never stopped thinking about her,” the wedding announcement reads. The high school sweethearts didn’t connect for years. Jeri Ann Currie, now Halford, and Claryl Haggard grew up east of Highway 93 between Ronan and Pablo. Although both familie...
At a July 21 ceremony in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Charleen Crenshaw of Ronan was officially pinned as a senior leader moving from staff sergeant to sergeant first class as of July 1. This was the second promotion to a senior leadership position that the platoon would receive during its deployment. Cre...
Editor, It appears that the Ronan cross country team will begin the season in two weeks without an assistant coach hired due to politics. Following a successful 2011 season with the girls’ and boys’ cross country programs, I was not re-hired as head coach because I was attending monthly board ...
RONAN- Westland Seed owner David Sagmiller reclines in his office chair and looks out the window towards one of his oldest grain silos as a demolition crane tears it to shreds. Shaking his head, he says, “It’s hard to see it go. I started working there when I was 14 years old; that’s the la...
Editor, Murder in the real world is not synonymous with humor. In theater, murder — rather the contemplation of murder — can be hilariously comical. The play “Murder at the Howard Johnson’s” is exactly that: a comedy of errors that had my husband and me chuckling and outright...
RONAN — It only seemed fitting that the team called Pat’s Pals won the 10th annual Sagmiller/Williams ALS Golf Tournament on Saturday, July 7. The tournament is played annually in memory and honor of Ken Sagmiller and Pat Williams, both avid local golfers who succumbed to ALS, or Lou Gehrig&rs...
