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2 weeks ago | 
argus-press.com | Matthew Bartow
LAINGSBURG — More good times could be in store on the diamond for Laingsburg. Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading. Also returning for Laingsburg, as he has for the past two decades, is skipper Jeff Cheadle, who has led the program since 2005 and, including a prior 18-year stint at Lansing Everett, has more than 900 career victories to his name.
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2 weeks ago | 
argus-press.com | Matthew Bartow
CORUNNA — After spending more than 50 years in prison, Daniel Wheeler is a free man. Wheeler, convicted of killing his pregnant girlfriend in 1971 as a minor, was released from prison in February following a yearslong court battle that ended with the reversal of a previous life sentence. Wheeler, now 72, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1971 for the murder of Erlinda Paz, who was pregnant, in Hazelton Township.
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3 weeks ago | 
argus-press.com | Matthew Bartow
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY — Shiawassee County was spared some of the worst outcomes of Sunday’s line of severe weather that wrecked havoc across Michigan — which spawned four tornadoes and killed three children in Kalamazoo County — but the impact of the line was largely felt throughout the county into Monday.
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4 weeks ago | 
argus-press.com | Matthew Bartow
ELSIE — Five Ovid-Elsie seniors signed letters of intent to continue their athletic careers on Friday and will stay in Michigan for college. Three of the five — Tryce Tokar, Jake Bowen and Ben Wildes — will play Division III football in college. Tokar signed with Alma College, where the three-year O-E starting quarterback will play wide receiver. Tokar received several accolades on the gridiron, including a co-first-team All-Mid-Michigan Activities Conference nod as a senior.
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1 month ago | 
argus-press.com | Matthew Bartow
OWOSSO — Longtime Owosso softball coach JoEllen Smith turns 65 in a few weeks, but the word retirement is not currently in her lexicon. Smith is set to begin her 42nd season next month — Ronald Reagan was president when she took over the program in 1983 — but she has zero intention of hanging it up anytime soon. “There’s nothing else I’d rather be doing and I have to do something. This is what I love, and it can make a difference in people’s lives.
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1 month ago | 
argus-press.com | Matthew Bartow
CORUNNA — A fire destroyed a one-story Corunna residence on Tuesday, injuring one and killing three cats. Corunna City Fire Department Chief Ron Pearsall said his department responded to a fire at 220 E. John St. at 3:29 p.m. on Tuesday. The Owosso Fire Department, along with fire departments from Owosso, Venice and Vernon townships, assisted. Corunna police and the Shiawassee County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene as well.
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1 month ago | 
argus-press.com | Matthew Bartow
LANSING — Zander Woodruff’s record-breaking scoring has followed him to college. Woodruff, who set Laingsburg’s single-season and career scoring records in 2024, is up to similar tricks at Lansing Community College. The 6-foot-3 freshman shooting guard broke the program’s single-season scoring record with a 26-point performance in the team’s Great Lakes District C Tournament semifinal loss to Mid Michigan College on March 6.
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1 month ago | 
argus-press.com | Matthew Bartow
SPRINGPORT — New Lothrop had dreams of winning a state championship, but largely thanks to a stretch in the third quarter where all went awry, its dream was squashed on Wednesday. The Hornets lost 39-34 to Jackson Lumen Christi in the Springport-hosted Division 3 regional final, ending its season with a 22-4 record. New Lothrop coach James Perry said that while the Hornets were looking for a different outcome against Lumen Christi, it was still a great season.
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1 month ago | 
argus-press.com | Matthew Bartow
SPRINGPORT — With its season on the line in Monday’s Division 3 regional semifinal, New Lothrop saw a seven-point fourth quarter lead with six minutes left extinguished by a Hemlock squad looking to squeeze the life out of it. Hemlock, employing a full-court press, looked destined for the win after a four-minute minute stretch that saw it record three turnovers, force New Lothrop to call its final timeout and tie the contest on a three-pointer from Victoria Hauffe with 2:12 remaining.
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1 month ago | 
argus-press.com | Matthew Bartow
LAINGSBURG — New Lothrop saw the tape of Laingsburg’s 14-point victory over Ovid-Elsie on Wednesday and, in advance of Friday’s district final match, the Wolfpack certainly had the team’s attention. Like New Lothrop, O-E went 15-1 in the Mid-Michigan Activities Conference, only to see its season ended in large part thanks to Laingsburg freshman Brooklyn Holm’s 29 points on Wednesday. So New Lothrop — which shared the MMAC crown with O-E — knew the same could happen two days later.
