North Newton state softball champion Sydney Rainford crowned Journal and Courier Small Schools Player of the Year.

The rising senior spent the equivalent of four 24-hour days crafting his marching band-inspired duct tape prom suit.

However, at nationals, the announcement came, and she didn’t win fourth place. She won the whole thing. “And she’s like, ...

"'You are young, gifted and black,' we must begin to tell our young. There's a world waiting for you. Yours is the quest that's just begun." — Nina Simone "This holiday, Juneteenth made me see myself.