Cameron Edwards

Garrettsville - Another year, another pair of titles for the Garfield G-Men track teams. Both the boys and girls teams repeated as Mahoning Valley Athletic Conference Grey Tier champions for track and field. This was accomplished by winning the league meet on Tuesday, May 9th at Champion High School....

Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield High School Quiz Masters competed at the national tournament this past weekend. The Quiz Bowl team, coached by Iva Walker, traveled to the Hyatt Regency near the Chicago O’Hare airport for the event. Competition consisted of 10 preliminary seeding games on Saturday ...

Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield High School Musical Theatre department put on their rendition of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” this past weekend. There were four shows over the span of three days, each one more exciting than the last. The Iva Walker auditorium was the venue for...

Garrettsville - The spring musical at James A. Garfield High School is returning for another year. After ending a two-year dry-spell due to COVID-19 in 2022 by performing “The Little Mermaid,” the JAG Musical Theatre Department is ready to go once again. This time, it will be Stephen Sondheim’s...

Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield High School Quiz Masters Quiz Bowl team was crowned NAQT Small School State Champions this past Saturday. They faced Miami Valley School, a private school near Dayton, in the championship match. The Quiz Masters found themselves in a deficit of 180 at halftime,...

What an atmosphere. A huge gymnasium, multiple reporters and news outlets covering the game as well as multiple live streams. It was the perfect setting for The James A. Garfield High School varsity girls basketball team, as they won their third consecutive district title on Saturday, February 25th. They...

Garrettsville - This past Tuesday, the James A. Garfield High School Quiz Masters Quiz Bowl team completed their second straight undefeated season in the Portage League first division. They had to go through Hudson, Cloverleaf, Aurora, Western Reserve Academy, and Brunswick two times each to finish 10-0 in the...

Garrettsville - With the dawn of January comes the thick of the high school winter sports season. Everything from bowling to indoor track and field, they all promise to have fierce competition for the Garfield G-Men. For the wrestlers, they will look to win another Mahoning Valley Athletic Conference...

Garrettsville - This past weekend, the James A. Garfield High School Drama Club put on their performances of “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Murder”. This one act play served as the group’s production for the season, and they had been working on it since early September. Three showings...

Garrettsville - The fall season proves to be a busy time for everyone in Garrettsville, especially fall sport athletes and band members. The G-Men Football team is off to yet another hot start this year. They got their first conference victory over LaBrae last Friday, led by a suffocating...

Garrettsville - On Friday, June 24th, the Record Courier hosted its annual High School Sports Awards at the Akron Civic Center. The ceremony included athletes from schools around Portage County, big and small. Finalists for the awards were named beforehand, and the winners were named the night of the...

James A. Garfield High School seniors Ryan Stoller and Riley LaPorte ended their illustrious track and field careers on the podium on the biggest stage. The pair made the podium at the OHSAA Division II state track and field meet at the historic Jesse Owens Memorial stadium at the...

Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield High School G-Men track and field teams both won the Mahoning Valley Athletic Conference (MVAC) titles at the league championships on May 12th at Mineral Ridge High School. The 2021-2022 school year is the first for the Garfield G-Men in the MVAC, as...

Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield High School Quiz Masters made history last weekend. The academic quiz bowl team from JAG was crowned Very Small School National Champions and finished 3rd overall in the Traditional Public Schools Division at the National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) Small School National Championship...

Garrettsville - Every year for as long as can be remembered, James A. Garfield High School has performed a spring musical. That was true until 2020, with the onset of a global pandemic leading to the cancellation of 2020’s show “The Sound of Music”. The continuation of COVID-19 in...

Garrettsville - On Friday, March 4th, the James A. Garfield High School Quiz Masters hosted the Portage Quiz Bowl League Tournament at the Garrettsville Family YMCA on Park Avenue. A 16-team Varsity field and 8-team JV field encompassed the tournament. Despite being called the Portage League, teams from Summit,...