Columns by Kevin Hieronymus

Derrick Johnson has been on all four Bureau Valley relays that have qualified for state the past two seasons.

American Legion Baseball has been the core behind promising baseball talent for decades in Illinois and nationwide. It was brought to Princeton in the early ‘90s and reinstituted briefly in the early 2000s, last fielding a team in 2005 as the Bureau County Cobras

Fred Bell was ready to hang them up over the winter, ending his tenure coaching the LaMoille Lady Lions softball program. In the end, he couldn’t do it. The girls are good for him and he’s been good for the girls.

I remember Scott DeVore when he was catching flyballs for my Princeton Little League baseball team years ago. These days, he’s catching snakes. We’re not talking garter snakes, but rather big ones, the Burmese Pythons.