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My title says Sports Editor, but I've done stories on various different subjects. In my role at The Daily Union, I took on the role as both the Sports Editor and General Assignment Reporter. During my nine months in Kansas, I had the opportunity to explore a wide-range of topics that helped improve my versatility.
Chapman's Aaron Modrow feels that he's been physically capable the last couple years to win a state championship, but mentally he wasn't. After a really tough race in the 1,600-meter run at the K-Relays, he hit a breaking point.
Junction City's Immanuel Lutheran Church has brought in Tim McCall as its new pastor. The 39-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri, has previously made stops at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in York, Nebraska, and most recently in Atwood, Kansas, where he spent the last five years.
In late May, the Junction City Brigade convened for the first time at Rathert Field. A lot entered Junction City from different backgrounds and other parts of the country, but a lot of them had similar goals for the summer.
One of Junction City's own is coming home. JCHS graduate Tim Testa has been hired as the school's new girls basketball coach. It was a position he was interested in as soon as he saw that former coach Derek Petty would not be returning, and he went through the process from there.
It began in Junction City tennis player Kody Westerhaus's sophomore year when coach Matthew Micheel felt his team needed a lift. Westerhaus delivered on Micheel's request in a big way. "We had a group of like six seniors who played the whole regionals," Micheel said.
Brothers Trae and Thane McDaniel celebrated a Cowdin Cup championship together on Saturday night, but their next steps will be quite different. Trae will be saying goodbye to the game he has loved since he was 4 years old, while Thane will be starting a new chapter in his story.
Fort Riley soldiers held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the Fort Riley Tax Center Friday morning. This is the 17th year that the tax center has been open and available to use for soldiers. The ceremony was organized to get the word out about the tax center, and inform Fort Riley soldiers and families where they can get free tax assistance.
Junction City Middle School hosted a STEM Fair Wednesday night, giving its students - as well as those from nearby elementary schools - an opportunity to showcase their talents. The students each operated their own station with poster board displayed that detailed their project, as visitors browsed around taking in some of the projects.