Basketball

Regional Basketball postponed (02/23/10)
The Spencer High School Girls' Regional basketball game against Storm Lake at Cherokee, scheduled for Tuesday night, has been postponed to Wednesday, February 24 at 7 p.m. at Cherokee.

Girls hoops pairing released: three local teams land home games (01/23/10)
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released its 2009-10 postseason pairings on Friday. Check out where your team is headed.

Dance joins list of SHS offerings (08/08/09)
As camps wrap up for the summer, one will still be logging 16 hours over the course of the next two days. No, it's not football, they wrapped up their week of daily two-hour sessions on Friday. No, these campers are working through three, eight-hour days to perfect their craft, battling through sore muscles and nagging injuries just like the participants in Spencer High School's more traditional athletic camps...

Store, museum celebrate Everly's 125 years (07/09/09)
With its big Quasquicentennial celebration right around the corner, volunteers in Everly are gearing up for the event. Committees have been meeting for months to prepare the dozens of events and activities which will draw thousands to the small town located just west of Spencer. Everly school alumni will return, and families will open their homes to relatives back to celebrate the big event...

Letters to the Editor 3-14-2009 (03/16/09)
The 2008-2009 Spencer varsity girls basketball season has ended. Many exciting and memorable moments have also come and gone. However, the great community support and involvement will never be forgotten. The support for our team during the 2008-2009 season was tremendous. Who will ever forget the crowd at Estherville in the Regional Final Game against No. 2 rated and then-undefeated Algona? The crowd that night was unbelievable...

Board makes final budget decision (02/27/09)
With a few tears shed, a handful of harsh words exchanged and plenty of emotional public input, Spencer school board members voted to keep nine items above the cut line for 2009-10 Thursday night. At a cost of $348,176, these included an elementary classroom teacher, a vocational agriculture instructor and FFA sponsor position, the debate program, the mock trial and boys swimming programs, a high school social studies instructor, two middle school basketball coaches' salaries, a $103,593 package tied to full-time benefits for 15 teacher and library associates, and Activities Director Roger Johnson's position.. ...

AD: Chapman should make full recovery (02/25/09)
Activities Director Roger Johnson is optimistic about the recovery for a Spencer High School boys basketball player who was taken off the court by stretcher Monday night at the Spencer Fieldhouse. Taylor Chapman was injured after a collision occurred following a fast break lay-up with 4:39 to play in a Class 3A tournament opener between Algona and Spencer...

CCE students: Have business, will sell product (02/07/09)
Clay Central/Everly students in Liz Kardell's Introduction to Business class are learning what it takes to run a business from the ground up. They're evaluating and re-evaluating every decision they make, as well as staying accountable to one another...

'King' of the Tiger Pas (01/24/09)
Elvis is alive and well. Recently spotted dancing with the Tiger Pas in the Spencer Fieldhouse Tuesday night, Elvis (Ross Brockshus) delivered the lip curl and hip shaking moves that made audiences go will in his younger days. Brockshus and his fellow Tigers Pas shared "The Evolution of Dance" with fans from Spencer and Estherville Lincoln Central during halftime of the boys and girls basketball games. ...

Dancing feet and waffles meet (01/17/09)
Tuesday night marks the return of the Spencer High School Tiger Pas to the hardwood for the second straight year. Coach Tammy Higgins (below) has her group of approximately 30 dancers - comprised of past and present Spencer student fathers - ready to perform some of the favorite moves from recent decades during halftime of the boys and girls varsity basketball games with Estherville-Lincoln Central. ...

For Sylvia Schoer, the time has come (01/02/09)
These days, Sylvia Schoer would like to go down to Des Moines for a state tournament basketball game instead of a committee meeting on mental health. The proud grandparent thinks about the five players on the court more than the five people in a board room or the five terms she spent as a member of the Clay County Board of Supervisors. It was time, she decided, to swap out the meeting agendas for the high school sports schedules...

Forecast forces sports cancellations for Saturday (12/19/08)
The Spencer Wrestling Invitational, scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 20, has been postponed. In addition, the varsity and JV boys and girls basketball games, scheduled for Saturday night in Sheldon, have also been postponed. The ninth grade boys and girls basketball games between Spencer and Clay Central/Everly in Spencer have also been cancelled for Saturday...

Laboranti taking the helm of CC/E High School (08/16/08)
As soon as he begins speaking, it's easy to tell that the new Clay Central/Everly High School principal is a native of Massachusetts. Albert "Al" Laboranti's accent is a bit different than that of a native northwest Iowan's. While his desire to cultivate strong students and teachers is on-target with that of other administrators nationwide, it's Laboranti's truly motivational outlook on life, and achieving success in all areas of it, that make him so likable. His enthusiasm is catchy...

Board to ready for 2008-09 school year Thursday (07/23/08)
Following a two-hour work session designed to review the new superintendent evaluation form, the Spencer Community Schools Board of Education will convene its monthly meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24 in the board room of the central administrative offices, located at 23 E. Seventh St...

Around Campus (05/05/08)
Amy Lawson of Spencer is a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) for the 2007-2008 school year. Lawson, a senior majoring in business administration, is a point guard on the women's basketball team...

D.A.R.E. role models (04/28/08)
Hello, my name is Dennis Linn. I am a member of the Clay County Sheriff's office. I am also a School Resource Officer for Clay Central-Everly and South Clay schools. I have taught D.A.R.E. at these schools for the past 15 years. During those years I have gotten to know the kids and experience what I believe each of the classroom teachers feel about their classroom students. ...

2007 Citizen of the Year Nomination Letters (04/03/08)
NOMINATION: TOM & WENDY VAN TASSEL This may be somewhat overdue, and I know it will not come close to including all they are involved in and what they have done for Spencer, but I will give it a try anyway. This nomination is actually for two of Spencer's finest and most deserving couple. ...

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