Stories from Monday, July 21, 2025

You can always tell the new school year is upon us when the stores are decked out with colorful notebooks, reams of paper, and end caps of pencils, safety scissors, erasers, and all the things on the teachers’ back-to-school lists. And for the last several years, another sign of the times is the growing mountain of backpacks and supplies on the square among the queues of shiny vintage trucks and autos...

The Griffons scored eight runs, but it’s not enough to close the regular season with a win in Sunday night’s season finale against the Chillicothe Mudcats at Lyons Stadium. The Griffons jumped out to an early lead in the first inning as they plated five runs to the Mudcats’ two runs from the top of the inning. The Griffons’ runs came from an RBI double by Bradley Hanlon, a two-RBI single by Trenton Creek, and a couple of wild pitches...