Covid has stalled Portage County League progress, but organizers aren’t giving up

A jumper from Riverside High School competes in the boys long jump at the Don Faix Invitational at Crestwood High School’s newly renamed Bridget Franek Track on Saturday, April 10, 2021. Michael Indriolo/The Portager

Covid has stalled Portage County League progress, but organizers aren’t giving up

- Tom Hardesty

Year two of the movement to rekindle the Portage County League is under way.

And while the continuous waxing and waning of the Covid-19 pandemic has left that movement mostly stuck in neutral since it began in early 2021, that doesn’t mean the fire isn’t there to restart the league, which disbanded following the 2004-05 school year after having been in existence since 1922.

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