Champions were crowned in four divisions in the third annual Aitkin Youth Fastpitch Wiffleball Tourney held at “The Roost” at Aitkin’s Rippleside Elementary School Sept. 13.
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The Aitkin Youth Fastpitch softball program will hold its third annual Wiffle Ball tournament Sunday, Sept. 13. Read more
Aitkin Community Education will offer its T-Ball and Young Hitters program this summer in August. Read more
Community education and the Aitkin tennis program partnered to bring two weeks of tennis instruction to kids, kindergarten through seventh grade. Children were divided into three sections based on age groups. Read more
Aitkin Youth Fastpitch is back. Read more
Over the last month, Ruttger’s PGA pro Dave Sadlowsky has seen a lot of things change at Ruttger’s Bay Lake Lodge. Read more
Ruttger’s Bay Lake Lodge will open for its 122nd season Thursday, May 21. Read more
May 1, which was opening day on the Jack’s 18 golf course at Ruttger’s Bay Lake Lodge, ended with a first-ever hole-in-one by Henry Wehlage of Lakeville. Henry aced the par three, ninth hole, with a nine-iron from 153 yards. Read more
Minnesota’s American Legion Baseball season has been canceled over concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
The Aitkin Youth Fastpitch softball evaluation day set for March 28, has been postponed. Read more
At the end of the regular winter seasons, curling teams from Aitkin are sitting on top of the open leagues at the Brainerd Lakes Curling Club. Normal Weight is undefeated at 10-0 on Wednesdays and American Peat Technology (APT) is tied in first at 7-1 on Fridays. Read more
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Aitkin Youth Fastpitch (AYF) will hold a practice day for evaluation of players Saturday, March 7 at the Aitkin High School gymnasiums. Read more
The Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada will play an event outside the Canadian border in 2020. Cragun’s Golf Resort, Brainerd, is set to host the inaugural Cuyuna Regional Medical Center Championship, to be formally recognized as the CRMC Championship, on Aug. 17-24, as part of a 6-year deal. Read more
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Join hundreds of anglers and snowmobile enthusiasts at the Cuyuna Lakes Chamber’s 16th Annual Ice Fishing Contest and Scorpion Homecoming on Saturday, Feb. 1, from 12-3 p.m. on Serpent Lake near Crosby’s Memorial Park. Read more
Aitkin celebrated its Junior American Legion Post 86 team winning the Minnesota State Junior Tournament Championship in three straight games last August. This is the history of American Legion Baseball. Read more
Although the fall trap shooting season had mostly miserable weather, McGregor, Aitkin and Cromwell students competed for the MAC Birdbusters. “In spite of the weather, it went well,” said head coach Kevin White. “We had a lot of first-year shooters who want to return during the spring season… Read more
The era of night baseball became a reality at Woock Field with the installation of lights in August. More than 150 baseball players, grades 7-12, including five different teams and Aitkin’s amateur team use Woock Field during the summer months. Read more
Two-thirds of the planned renovations at Woock Field have been completed. Lights were turned on for night baseball in August, and installation of a new scoreboard was completed Oct. 9. A third renovation, installing tile to drain the outfield, was put on hold due to the wet fall weather; the… Read more
Former Aitkin Gobbler football player and now a defensive back for the College of St. Scholastica, Jake Kukowski had 12 tackles last Saturday against Greenville, He also had 2 fumble recoveries. Kukowski is tied for the conference lead in fumble recoveries. On Oct. 12, he recorded 2 pass int… Read more
This will be my last article of the season. Read more
The last day of golf started out rainy but cleared up and we had a wonderful afternoon for our final day of golf and year-end banquet. Read more
The game for Sept. 10 was Fairway Minus Putts. Read more
After a scoreless first quarter, the Ogilvie Lions’ offense kicked into high gear, scoring 20 second-quarter points and 30 more in the third quarter for a 50-8 win over McGregor. The Lions drew first blood on a six-yard run, but the Mercs answered with Drew Dean’s seven-yard scamper and two-… Read more
A 441 yard rushing attack sinks Blue Devils Read more
A total of $18,570 was raised for area hospice patients at Driving for Hospice, Read more
The game of the day was a team event called Something on Every Hole. Read more
Aitkin Area Pickleball Association coach Dr. John Newstrom responds Read more
The evening of Aug. 12 saw the members of the Mille Lacs Fisheries Advisory Committee (MLFAC) meeting with the DNR Read more
The whole of the city of Aitkin is now included in Minnesota DNR’s CWD zone Read more
The Aitkin Gobbler volleyball girls fired 15 ace serves Read more
Fifth grader Jackson Kingsley, brother, mom and grandfather travel to Nashville, Tenn. for 3-D archery competition Read more
Aug. 21 “Back to the 50s” Results: Read more
Walleye fishing on Mille Lacs Lake will close Friday, Sept. 6, so state anglers do not exceed a safe walleye harvest level. Read more
It was the end of the year stroke play tournament for the Minnesota National Ladies League. There were 24 ladies who participated with four flights. Flight A, the low gross winner was Lisa Mueller with a gross score of 85. Kathy Wood took first low net with a 62 and Laurie Hamre took second … Read more
Aitkin’s Jr. American Legion team captured its first state tournament title, winning all three of its contests Aug. 9-11 at St. Charles. Read more
The second annual wiffle ball tournament had 23 teams participate this year (up from 14 teams the first year). They have a goal of 30 teams for next year. Read more
The Fifth Annual Cuyuna Crusher Race sponsored by the Cuyuna Lakes Chamber and the Minnesota Mountain Bike Series is Aug. 17-18. Read more
For the second consecutive year, Aitkin’s American Legion baseball team qualified for a berth in the Junior Legion State tournament at St. Charles, Aug. 9-11, for players 16-17 years of age. Aitkin finished second at the 2018 state tournament. Aitkin’s Legion team has been sponsored by Post … Read more
Gobbler coaches, players and fans put a wrap on the 2019 season at their annual celebration held at St. James Catholic Church, July 28. Read more
Sunday, Aug. 25, is the date for Aitkin Day at Target Field at 1:10 p.m. The Twins will host the Detroit Tigers. Supercuts Super seats cost $40 which includes $10 for food and beverage. Four handicap seats are available. The seats have table tops or you can stand and walk around. An optional… Read more
The annual Bay Lake Area Lions Charities, “Swinging for Scholars” shotgun start best ball tournament was held earlier this month at Ruttger’s Bay Lake, Jack’s 18. The winning foursome who took home first place (gross) honors with a score of 60 was Team Christensen made up of Erik and Swede C… Read more
Tuesday the game of the day for ladies league was Colored Yarn Match. The team of Barb Mitchell, Lisa Mueller and Laurie Hamre were the winners with a score of 35. Low putts for the day went to Lisa Mueller with 13 putts. There was a tie for second place with Sherry Krause, Shirley Winegar … Read more
There were 138 total participants in the Dump Run held in Aitkin, sponsored by Paulbeck’s County Market on Aug. 3. The Dump Run was professionally timed by Karma Race Management of Brainerd. Read more
