By Emma Johns BRIGHTON — On March 1, Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School held the annual Hershey Track and Field Day. To prepare for the track and field events, physical education teachers at PECS spent several weeks preparing students by focusing the P.E. hour around the events that would take place at the

By Emma Johns BRIGHTON — As the Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School baseball and softball seasons come to an end so does the middle school career for the eighth-grade athletes. On March 21, PECS held a special event to honor the eighth-graders and their parents. Eight softball players and three baseball players were

BIG CYPRESS — No one knows for sure how many children Billie Johns Sr. coached on hardscrabble baseball fields at the Big Cypress Reservation – not even Johns himself. "Twenty-five? Maybe 30," he guessed. "All I know is I had my best times giving kids practice out there."  On March 5, more

By Emma Johns BRIGHTON — Spring is in the air, and so begins the time for softball and baseball players to dust of their gear and prepare for the new season. Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School girls’ softball and boys’ baseball teams kicked off their seasons on Feb. 22 with a schoolwide pep

HOLLYWOOD — The Tribalwide Hot Dogg Basketball Tournament, held in Hollywood March 8-9, was a memorial and a tribute to the late Dwight "Ike" Jumper, a basketball lover. "We all played basketball together growing up," said tournament organizer Michael Gentry. "All our friends who passed away are up there playing basketball.

BRIGHTON — Earsplitting sounds radiated from the Brighton gym on Feb. 15 as pop music played at top volume and students cheered their loudest. They were wowed as a basketball took a circuitous route to swish through a hoop, thanks to the skills of internationally renowned slam dunker Kenny Dobbs, the

BIG CYPRESS — Anyone with competitive spirit is invited to battle for bucks at weekly billiard tournaments on the Big Cypress Reservation. Hosted by the Big Cypress Recreation Department at Big Cypress Billiards, the Thursday night pool tourneys are so far drawing about a dozen pool players. At the 10-table venue,

By Emma Johns BRIGHTON — The bow and arrow, once used for war and hunting, is still used by Seminoles today – mostly for the sport of archery, although bow hunting seems to be making a strong comeback. On Feb. 23, the Recreation Department hosted the first Jr. Archery 3-D Shoot Out

By Andrea Holata BRIGHTON — The Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School (PECS) basketball season came to an end on Jan. 17 at the Brighton Gymnasium. Both the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams played against Yearling Middle School at home to complete the season. The PECS girls’ basketball team closed the season with an astounding

HOLLYWOOD — Basketball-loving youth came from all reservations to compete in the Youth Basketball Tournament from Feb. 1-2 at the Hollywood Gym. Boys and girls on 17 teams competed in the 10 and under, middle school and high school categories. “It’s basketball season and we just wanted to do something for