Huskies in the news

The video game industry reels in billions of dollars per year. A leading chronicler of it lives in St. Cloud and is a professor at St. Cloud State.

The third season of Granite City Radio Theatre will wrap up Wednesday at Pioneer Place on Fifth.

Henderson State’s Hayden Lessenberry hit a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift the sixth-seeded Reddies to an 8-7, 10-inning win over top-ranked St. Cloud State in the Division II Central Region championship game Sunday night at Joe Faber Field.

St. Cloud is asking for state money to help with park and downtown accessibility improvements. On Monday, the St. Cloud City Council approved two bonding requests to send to the Legislature. The city is asking for $6 million to improve George Friedrich Park and $2 million for accessibility improvements downtown.

Joe DeRose ’05 and his wife Christina ’05 are entering their fourth summer running Riverside Resort on Cedar Island Lake in Richmond.

The Greenway/Nashwauk-Keewatin (Coleraine, MN) boys hockey team will have a new coach leading the program this season with Grant Clafton stepping into the head coaching role.

St. Cloud State’s Garrett Harrison sees many things pointing him into the direction of playing pro baseball.

The St. Cloud State Huskies will take a 51-3 record and the nation’s No. 1 ranking in NCAA Division II baseball into the six-team Central Regional that starts Thursday at Joe Faber Field.

Zach Hoffmann said that he did not expect his St. Cloud State baseball team to be carrying a 51-3 record to become the No. 1-ranked college baseball team in Division II this season

The Great River Regional Library board of trustees has appointed Karen Pundsack as executive director of the 32-library system.

Princeton Union-Eagle — On June 1, Naomi Kolhoff, of Princeton, will pack up her new road bike and drive out to Washington state.

The Greenway/Nashwauk-Keewatin boys hockey team will have a new coach leading the program this season with Grant Clafton ’08 stepping into the head coaching role.

Everyone understood when Mackenzie Brophy ’09 took a break as head coach of St. Cloud Tech’s track and field team this spring.

St. Cloud State University was featured in the Spring 2015 edition of Recovery Campus Magazine showing the university’s Recovery Community as a “safe, sober environment on campus, accessible to all.”

St. Cloud State University is starting to reverse the trend of declining enrollment, University President Earl H. Potter III said Monday.

Open minds, the heart usually follows. The itinerary this week includes a trip to Houston, where Jim Eisenreich has been asked to speak to a small group on behalf of a local family.

Each shot Tori Maish stopped seemed to be successively more important as the minutes ticked away. It led to an 11-9 upset victory for St. Cloud Area that few may have predicted Monday night at Husky Stadium.

Get up early and go to bed late. That’s the life of a sports radio talk show host who also does play-by-play announcing on the side. But Dave Overlund wouldn’t have it any other way.

St. Cloud State student Nathan Neuman is used to people’s surprise that he’s a 20-year-old polka musician.

St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis appeared on WJON today for his weekly Radio Town Hall Meeting. He took questions about road construction, park funding, plans for Friedrich Park and more.

Keyshawn Davis didn’t always know college track and field was an option for him.

Karen Pundsack ’95 has been named the permanent executive director for the Great River Regional Library system.

St. Cloud State University is transforming one of its parking lots into a pollution reduction project to help protect Mississippi River water quality.

Heidi Macpherson, who is currently a provost in Wisconsin with more than 20 years of experience in higher education as an administrator, author and professor, has been named the new president of The College at Brockport.

There seems to be general agreement that George Friedrich Park should be kept as natural as possible.