MEQUON - Baseball hall of fame legend Hank Aaron spoke to approximately 392 undergraduate students, 174 master’s candidates and 20 doctor of physical therapy students who received degrees at Concordia University’s spring commencement held Saturday in the R. John Buuck Field House in Mequon.
The Celina football team is finally on the board at the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame. Texas’ all-time winningest program received the 2007 Gordon Wood Award on Saturday at Baylor University’s Ferrell Center following a season that netted a record eighth state championship.
CANASTOTA, NY - MAY 21, 2008 - The International Boxing Hall of Fame announced today former ring rivals Alexis Arguello and Aaron "The Hawk" Pryor will reunite in Canastota for festivities planned for the 19th Annual Hall of Fame Induction Weekend set for June 5-8th.
Aaron Gregory, Raven Allen, and Avery Gregory traveled to Florence on the weekend of April 25-27 to represent the Wilson Hall Middle School Band in the University of North Alabama Honor Band. They were selected based on their honors and achievements in band and their director's recommendation.
Gregg Edelman and John Bedford Lloyd are the final additions to the principal cast of the June 10 concert staging of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat at Carnegie Hall.
Although a committee of city legislators refused to approve $500,000 in funding for a new Tenderloin court proposed by Mayor Gavin Newsom that would be used to tackle drug use and other quality-of-life crimes, one supervisor has launched a new effort to save the plan.
AUBURN - Aaron Allen scored on Shane Curtis' fielder's choice in the bottom of the seventh inning as St. Dom's edged Cape Elizabeth 1-0 in WMC baseball action Wednesday.
May 25: Songwriter Hal David is 87. Country singer Tom T. Hall is 72. Actor Ian McKellen ("Lord of the Rings") is 69. Actress Dixie Carter is 69. Country singer Jessi Colter is 65. Actress-singer Leslie Uggams is 65. Director-Muppetteer Frank Oz is 64. Actress Karen Valentine is 61. Singer Klaus Meine of Scorpions is 60. Actress Patti D'Arbanville ("New York Undercover") is 57. Actress Connie
A teenage Rapid City violinist recently took his 12-member ensemble through its paces for the 13-part Public Broadcasting Service series “From the Top at Carnegie Hall.”