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1 day ago | 
thedickinsonpress.com | Gaylon Parker |RubyAnn Stiegelmeier |Danielle Teigen
Sep. 20, 1938 - Jun. 04, 2025 BAKER, Mont. - Janice Wolenetz, 86, Baker, Mont. died Wednesday, Jun. 4. Funeral service for Janice will be held at 10:00 am Friday, June 13, 2025 at First Baptist Church in Baker. Visitation will be 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Thursday, June 12, 2025 with a prayer service at 6:00 pm at Stevenson Funeral Home of Baker. Arrangements by Stevenson Funeral Home.
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2 days ago | 
thedickinsonpress.com | Gaylon Parker
I dunno what I was thinking …We all have moments where we bite off more than we can chew … our eyes get bigger than our stomachs … we hit on the Homecoming Queen while we have a zit on our nose … But, good-heavens, I think I mighta blown-it this time.
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2 days ago | 
thedickinsonpress.com | Gaylon Parker |RubyAnn Stiegelmeier |Danielle Teigen
Gwendolyn Mae Lantz, 65, Gladstone, ND passed away at M Health in Minneapolis on May 22, 2025. Gwen was born March 11, 1960, in Bismarck, ND to Leonard and Elaine (Jochim) Veitenheimer. Where she grew up on a farm south of Glen Ullin. Gwen was active in FFA during her high school years. She attended NDSU for Agronomy. Gwen married Thomas Lantz in November 1980. They raised 3 children, Kristen, Leslie and Bart in Glen Ullin and Gladstone.
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2 days ago | 
thedickinsonpress.com | Gaylon Parker
DICKINSON โ Dickinson Diamonds youth league and recreational softball has returned to Sanford Sports Complex and Fisher Industries Sports Complex as of last week, with more than 20 teams โ along with a few traveling squads for advanced players โ and everything from coach-pitch to live action individual developmental teams will be playing there throughout the next few months.
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2 days ago | 
thedickinsonpress.com | Gaylon Parker
DICKINSON — With Roughrider Days just around the corner, The Dickinson Press Sports Show wanted to go directly to the source of the action and invite Nicole Kilwein who is the president over at the Roughrider Commission and Leon Kristianson who has been involved with the Roughrider Days Rodeo for decades.
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4 days ago | 
thedickinsonpress.com | Gaylon Parker
WHEW! We made it through another one …It always comes with a sigh of relief when I see the empty parking lot at Prairie Elementary School on 10th Ave. W, and not necessarily because the traffic lightens-up on my way to work in the morning. I know most people live their lives from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31 each year, but we in the sportswriting business most-certainly DO NOT.
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1 week ago | 
thedickinsonpress.com | Gaylon Parker
MANKATO, Minn. — In their inaugural 2024 Northwoods League season, the Badlands Big Sticks finished 5-7 against the Mankato Moondogs. But just four games into the 2025 schedule, the Southwest North Dakota club holds a promising 3-1 record, following back-to-back wins to open an early eight-game road trip. The Big Sticks secured an 11-6 victory on Wednesday, May 28, and followed it up with a 7-5 win the next day at ISG Field in Minnesota.
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1 week ago | 
thedickinsonpress.com | Gaylon Parker
DICKINSON — "School's OUT for SUMMER!" as Alice Cooper once told us, but sports go ON for EVER! and the training is just getting started for the coming 2025-26 schedules. On-hand is Colby Wartman, owner of Origin Performance here, and he personally trains athletes across Southwest North Dakota at his gymnasium. Colby discusses the benefits he offers through his work to area athletes and Handsome Rob wedges in a few anecdotes while Gaylon adds some sports info along the way.
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1 week ago | 
thedickinsonpress.com | Gaylon Parker
WASHBURN, N.D. — The 2024–25 school year may be over, but the North Dakota prep golf season rolls on. It will culminate next week with the Class B State Tournament, scheduled for June 3–4 at Jamestown Country Club. This week, Painted Woods Golf Course in Washburn hosted the Region 5 Tournament on Tuesday, May 27. Pleasant weather helped competitors navigate the course, resulting in a strong afternoon of scores.
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1 week ago | 
thedickinsonpress.com | Gaylon Parker
DICKINSON — After Heart River upended Beulah’s Miners in a 4-3 thriller on Thursday, May 22, the Cougars earned a spot in the Class B, Region VIII finals in last week’s tournament. But they fell just short of a state tournament berth, losing to Shiloh Christian by a combined four runs over two games and closing their season at 12-11-1. The Cougars dropped a 3-2 heartbreaker to the Skyhawks on Friday, May 23, setting up a winner-take-all showdown the next afternoon.
