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PRAIRIE CITY — The Prairie City football team has put another trophy on their shelf after the Oregon School Activities Association named them the Les Schwab Tires Team of the Month for September.

As Mark Twain once said, it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

REDMOND — Grant Union's volleyball team brought home a state trophy Saturday, Nov. 6, after finishing fourth at the OSAA 2A Volleyball State Championship at Ridgeview High School in Redmond.

REDMOND — Grant Union volleyball will battle it out for a third-place finish at the state tourney after falling to Salem Academy in a hard-fought 3-0 match on Friday, Nov. 5.

JOHN DAY — Grant Union's volleyball team moved on to the semifinals in the state tourney after defeating Vernonia 3-1 Tuesday, Nov. 2,  in front of a packed gym at Grant Union High School.

JOHN DAY — The Seventh Street Sports Complex became a cross country race course for the second week in a row on Friday, Oct. 29, as Grant Union’s cross country team hosted the 3A/2A/1A-Special…

JOHN DAY — Grant Union volleyball is moving on to the quarterfinals of the state playoffs after the team defeated Sheridan 3-0 in front of a hometown crowd on Saturday, Oct. 30.

Grant Union’s football team had a tall task in front of them Friday, Oct. 15, in the form of the No. 1-ranked Heppner Mustangs.

PRAIRIE CITY — Dayville/Monument and Prairie City were neck and neck at times in a three-set thriller Wednesday, Oct. 13, but the Panthers pulled away to beat the Tigers 3-0.

Grant Union football’s toughness was put to the test Friday, Oct. 8, against Stanfield.

The Panthers’ 24-6 win over Pine Eagle on homecoming night was as much a victory for the community of Prairie City as it was for the football team.

PRAIRIE CITY — When facing the fear, doubt and uncertainty that comes with a breast cancer diagnosis, the Prairie City volleyball team wants women to know they are supported.

A Grant Union High School student took the top spot in barrel racing and second in pole bending in the state, as the Oregon High School Rodeo Association saddled up the season.

JOHN DAY — Grant Union’s volleyball team picked up a pair of wins on Saturday, Oct. 2, putting down both Enterprise and Pilot Rock by identical 3-0 scores in front of a packed gym that was a s…

JOHN DAY — Grant Union’s junior varsity volleyball team defeated the Dayville/Monument varsity squad 3-1 on Tuesday, Sept. 28, in a nonconference tilt.

PRAIRIE CITY — Prairie City High School tentatively postponed its volleyball and football games this past weekend to Oct. 22.

STANFIELD — The Grant Union Volleyball team won two out of three games last week.

LEBANON — With the boys team missing their top runner and the girls’ team short two runners, Grant Union’s cross country team’s athletes put up some of their best times of the season at the Ch…

JOHN DAY — After scoring on a fumble in the early going, Grant Union’s football team never looked back in a 46-6 shellacking of Irrigon in the squad’s first game at home on Thursday, Sept. 23.

Young cowboys and cowgirls from as far away as Texas competed at the Grant County Junior Rodeo Saturday at the Fairgrounds.

A Grant Union High School student won barrel racing at the state’s high school rodeo Aug. 28

Prairie City High School’s varsity football team lost their home opener Friday, 26-12, to Wheeler County.

Despite being eliminated in pool play Saturday at the Grant Union High Invitational Volleyball Tournament in John Day, the Prairie City Panthers kicked off their season with a bang and have hi…

A Grant County gym owner set two state powerlifting records on Aug. 14 at the Idaho State Championships in New Plymouth.

Prairie City’s football made a good showing Saturday at the jamboree game in Echo.

The Grant Union Prospectors volleyball team took first place in the Grant Union Invitational Tournament Saturday to kick off the season.

Last month, two siblings from Grant Union High School competed at the National High School Finals Rodeo in Lincoln, Nebraska.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Kate Page has improved her placing every year she has competed in the STIHL Timbersports Series, and this year she finished sixth among the 12 women during the July 23-25 event.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has released the final proposal for commission consideration regarding changes to how archery elk season is managed for portions of Eastern Oregon wi…

Fifteen students from Kim’s Tae Kwon Do of John Day won big in their first tournament in over a year.

The Blue Mountain Healthcare Foundation raised $10,000 this year at its 14th annual golf scramble to buy a three-dimensional mammography machine for the hospital.